Part 2
Upon reaching Longmen bus station, the time is already 1.10pm. There are 2 options to go Tie quan hot spring. Option 1, you can take a direct bus to the hot spring but only certain timing. Option 2, you can take the taxi outside the long men bus station. Happen that if we take option 1, we have to wait for another hour. So we chose option 2. We approached one of the taxi drivers, and he quoted us rmb40. We take the offer as I know the price is about there. The traveling time from Longmen bus station to Tie quan hot spring is about 15mins. Along the journey, you can see a lot of Kakka restaurants and store selling swim wear (so those who forget their swim wear, not to worry). There is also another hot spring resort on the way to Tie quan hot spring. The resort is named as Natural Hot spring resort (天然温泉). Understand from the taxi driver, this hot spring is smaller in size but renovated recently (I will try this hot spring on January next year).
After we reached the resort, we noticed that there are some renovation works going on (expanding projects which will have more facilities in future). Total there are 3 types of resorts in Tie quan Hot spring (family class, middle class and ‘cash king’ class). But all rooms are to be check-in at the reception within a white building.
The facilities of this resort include hot spring, Hakka restaurant (农家/客家菜), and lounge. After check-in, we walk a short distance outside the resort to try their nong jia cai for lunch. Their highly recommend dish are hakka chicken and 水磨豆腐. Then we slowly walk back to our room.
Family class resort
Middle class resort
Our room with steam bath section
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