Alex T.
Yelp
Wow! The schnaziest hotel I have ever stayed at! Definitely FIVE star hotel. If you had to choose between eating breakfast here or dinner, I would say stick to BREAKFAST, you won't regret it!
My family and I got two rooms at the Crowne for a night while we were waiting in transit and all I could keep telling myself is that I didn't want to leave. As we started our ascent to our rooms, we boarded the elevator and I was already laughing at how drowsy I was. The elevator requires you to scan your room key to go to the floor of your room. I did not realize until I opened my sleep deprived eyes a little bigger to see the scanner under the floor buttons. Once on our floor, my sisters and I walked, and walked, and walked all the way to the end of our hallway where our room was. Let me just say that the hotel rooms were amazing. When we enetered into our room, the A/C was already nice and turned on and room service was already placing the third bed into our room. Talk about quick! The beds were so comfortable (though the pillow covers smelled a little off to me...that didn't matter much).
We did not go out of the hotel since we were only staying the night which was okay since this hotel seems to have almost everything. They have a gym (which unfortunately I did not go to see), the pool looked so pretty (but I did not go for a dip since I was too tired to) and they also have a bar located across from Azur (the hotel restaurant) which looked pretty lounge-y (though no one was in there much of the time we were here).
The restaurant, Azur, was your typical, yet upgraded to fancy, hotel buffet. My family and I went to eat dinner around 8 p.m. and a lot of the platters were disappointingly almost empty or completely empty. They had a nice large selection from cod, to roast beef, seasonal veggies!, Indian, Chinese, Japanese food, German sausages (meh) and my favorite, the starches (aka Italian, aka pasta! + potatoes)! I did not travel to the raw seafood selection at all after taking a quick pic, good looking as their set up was, I could not stomach looking at any raw shellfish at all at the moment. I loved the mashed potatoes the best, and the miso chicken probably comes in second followed by the satay chicken in third. I am not accustomed to such fancy hotel buffets, so when I went over to the pastas, I did not know that a chef was going to come out to heat the pastas up in the sauce of my choice, I had assumed that it was a self serve thing, (what was I supposed to expect, since nobody was behind the counters!). I got some rotini with their alfredo sauce and a few pieces of the spinach ravioli that they had. Not amazing pasta, but okay. I have to say though, other than the three stated above (potatoes, miso chicken and satay), the salad is probably your best bet on avoiding the complete and totally mind stabbing grease headache/stomach ripping nausea that I had receieved right after stuffing my face here. I don't know if it was because I ate way too much? or the food was a little off.
I think dessert deserves a section of its own, wouldn't you agree? They had the cutest little dessert things ever, though that's all they were good for, their looks, taste.....ehh, that's a complete different story. After sampling their green tea whatever in the little glass cups, the blueberry cheesecake thing in the little porcelain spoon?, their fruit tart, the green tea tiramisu, and the ice cream?, I think I would have been very much more satisfied if I had just stuck to simple ice cream and almonds. The rest is insignificant in my taste opinion, but my eyes were definitely excited when I saw the desserts (what a trap!). Their ice cream freezer had four tubs of ice cream; vanilla, chocolate chili raspberry?, Jackfruit, and my favorite flavor of the night, blueberry muffin!
The next morning, we came for the breakfast, and I am one to love breakfast. This was a much better buffet in terms of taste than dinner! There's an egg station, Chinese, Indian, some Singapore breakfast noodles, salads, fruits, cereals, juices, and your typical hash browns and sausage section. I loved everything at breakfast! So delicious!!!!! Nothing was disgusting, though the radish cakes were super thick, much thicker than I am used to, but like I said, NOTHING WAS DISGUSTING! TWO THUMBS UP for BREAKFAST.
Overall, dining here was a good experience. The woman at the front during the dinner service could have been a little nicer, but hey, I return the energy you give me lady. The dining room is always going to be super empty so it doesn't matter when you go (except breakfast, that was pretty good in terms of looking like a busy restaurant). I think I would give the appearance an A, the staff a B and the taste borders a B/B-, averging out my score to a
B