Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Sanya from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Sanya
These restaurants sit inside Sanya’s resort districts and cover seafood, tea-house cooking and grill-led dining.
Fresh in Dadonghai is a beachfront restaurant with a Modern Australian Seafood Grill focus, plus a la carte, tasting menu, set menu and buffet formats. It also has an exceptional wine programme and an extensive wine list, alongside Black Pearl 1 Diamond awards for 2025 and 2026.
Tea House · Park Hyatt Sanya Sunny Bay Resort in Yalong Bay National Scenic Resort is a Cantonese tea house with premium tea pairings and a traditional Chinese-style setting. It holds Black Pearl 1 Diamond awards for 2025 and 2026.
Chop House in Haitang Bay is a poolside Italian grill and Western steakhouse. It has a wine list, craft cocktails, and both a la carte and set menu service.
Haitang Bay brings together beach clubs, cocktail service and resort dining with direct sea-facing settings.
Beach Club at EDITION (Adults Only) in Haitang Bay is a waterfront beach club with classic cocktails, craft cocktails and frozen drinks. It also includes DJs and semi-al fresco dining, with the bar set between a private ocean and a beach club pool.
Beach Barbacoa at EDITION in Haitang Bay is a beachfront seafood grill with Indonesian-inspired flavours and a la carte service. It also has live music, craft cocktails, a beer programme and sand underfoot.
The Sanya EDITION in Haitang Bay includes a rooftop Sky Bar, a private seawater ocean, a two-storey spa and a collaboration with Beijing's Ullens Center for Contemporary Art. The hotel also scored 91.5 points on La Liste Top Hotels 2026.
Haitang Bay has the deepest concentration of venues in our guide, with Dadonghai and Yalong Bay also important. Those neighbourhoods are where the city’s resort restaurants, bars and hotel dining rooms cluster.
There are no Michelin-starred restaurants among all 16 restaurants covered citywide in our dining guide to Sanya, including the restaurants in Dadonghai, Haitang Bay and Yalong Bay National Scenic Resort.
Fresh in Dadonghai is the city’s clearest wine-led restaurant, with an exceptional wine programme and an extensive wine list. It is the only venue in our guide with that level of wine programme, and it also has tasting menu and set menu formats.
Fresh in Dadonghai offers a tasting menu and a set menu, plus a buffet. Chop House in Haitang Bay has a set menu as well as a la carte service.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Fresh holds a Black Pearl 1 Diamond (2025), placing it in the upper tier of Sanya's emerging fine-dining scene. Located at 12 Yuhai Road, it draws serious attention for a kitchen approach grounded in Hainan's coastal and tropical larder. For a resort city still defining its culinary identity, this is a restaurant operating with genuine conviction.
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Tea House at the Park Hyatt Sanya Sunny Bay Resort holds a Black Pearl 1 Diamond award (2025), placing it among the more formally recognised Chinese restaurants on Hainan island. Set within one of Sanya's resort addresses, the restaurant brings a tea-house tradition to a coastal setting where that kind of cultural precision is still rare. Book ahead and arrive with time to spare.
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Beach Barbacoa at EDITION 海滩烧烤餐厅 belongs to Sanya’s resort-dining tier where sea air, live fire, and the beach setting carry as much weight as formal technique. Its appeal is less about a chef-driven tasting format than about the coastal barbecue idea: ingredients treated simply, served close to the water, and positioned within Haitang Bay’s hotel-restaurant circuit.
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Chop House belongs to Sanya’s resort-dining category, where the strongest meals usually depend on coastal supply, open-air pacing, and kitchens that understand heat as well as luxury. Its poolside setting in Haitang District places it in the hotel-zone style of dining: relaxed, polished, and better read as part of a broader Sanya conversation about meat, seafood, and produce moving between island markets and resort kitchens.
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On Hainan Island's Haitang Bay coastline, 1 Hotel Haitang Bay brings the brand's eco-conscious design signature to one of China's most-visited leisure destinations. Rated 91 points on La Liste's Top Hotels 2026 list and holding a Forbes 4-Star (2025), the 294-room resort pairs raw, unfinished materials with five pools and six dining and bar outlets, a self-contained property that reads as deliberately grounded rather than conventionally polished.
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Capella Tufu Bay sits inside Haitang Bay's resort corridor, where the collaboration between architects Jean-Michel Gathy and the late Bill Bensley produced one of Sanya's most architecturally considered addresses. The circular lobby, monumental public spaces, and residential-scaled rooms position this 190-key property in the upper tier of Hainan's luxury hotel market, priced from around $345 per night.
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Set along a private stretch of Hainan Island's southern coastline, Park Hyatt Sanya Sunny Bay Resort occupies a secluded western corner of Yalong Bay, separated from its nearest neighbor by roughly three miles of crescent beach. Its 207 rooms and villas combine old-world Chinese design details with contemporary materials, and the property anchors itself in one of China's most active resort corridors while maintaining a notably calm scale.
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Set on Coral Bay along one of Hainan Island's most sheltered stretches of beach, Mandarin Oriental, Sanya spreads across 30 acres of beachfront property with guest rooms starting at 560 square feet. The property earned 93 points in the 2026 La Liste Top Hotels ranking and combines Hainanese and Cantonese dining at Yi Yang restaurant with an 18-treatment-room spa offering traditional Chinese medicine consultations.
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Positioned along Hainan Island's Haitang Bay, The Sanya EDITION scored 91.5 points on the La Liste Top Hotels 2026 ranking, placing it among China's more seriously rated coastal properties. A private seawater ocean, a two-storey spa, a rooftop Sky Bar, and a collaboration with Beijing's Ullens Center for Contemporary Art give the resort a range rarely found in a single coastal address.
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China's sole Atlantis property occupies Haitang Bay on the southern tip of Hainan Island, positioning itself as the country's largest family-oriented resort complex. Across 1,314 ocean-view rooms, a 50-acre waterpark, the Lost Chambers Aquarium housing 86,000 marine animals, and multiple dining venues, the scale here is deliberate and unapologetic.
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Banyan Tree Sanya occupies Luhuitou Bay with 49 private pool villas set within tropical gardens on Hainan Island. The property sits in the villa-led, couples-focused tier of Sanya's luxury resort market, with destination dining, locally sourced furnishings, and a spa program built on 350-plus hours of therapist training. A 45-minute taxi ride from Sanya Phoenix International Airport.
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On the shores of Haitang Bay in eastern Sanya, Rosewood Sanya takes a quieter approach than many of its neighbours, rooms start at 732 square feet, AB Concept's design leans into natural materials and neutral tones rather than spectacle, and the 13th-floor infinity pool offers the bay's most composed vantage point. The result is a resort that reads more like a well-edited residence than a conventional Chinese beach property.
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Positioned at the southern tip of Hainan Island within Yalong Bay National Resort District, the St. Regis Sanya sits among the upper tier of the bay's international luxury properties. Its 396 rooms and villas, private beach, Iridium Spa, and signature butler service place it in direct comparison with the Ritz-Carlton and Rosewood properties that share the same coastline.
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A MICHELIN Selected property on Haitang Bay's resort strip, Fairmont Sanya Haitang Bay positions itself within Sanya's upper tier of international-brand hotels. The address places guests within reach of the bay's duty-free shopping corridor and open-water coastline. The hotel draws visitors seeking the Fairmont brand's service standards alongside direct beach access on China's southern island resort coast.
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A Michelin Selected property on Sanya Bay Road, Hotel Pullman Oceanview Sanya Bay Resort & Spa positions itself at the intersection of international chain reliability and tropical resort scale. The bay-facing address places it within Sanya's most established hospitality corridor, where resort density runs high and differentiation comes down to service architecture and physical setting rather than novelty alone.
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A palatial resort anchoring Yalong Bay's most sheltered stretch of coastline, The Ritz-Carlton Sanya occupies over 30,000 square feet of spa facilities, four pools, and rooms starting at 646 square feet with South China Sea views. Positioned within Marriott International's luxury tier and a short flight from Hong Kong or Shanghai, it draws families and golf-focused travellers to Hainan Island's premium resort corridor.
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Sanya Haitang Bay Hotel occupies among the more physically commanding positions along Hainan Island's northeastern coastline, where the Haitang Bay strip has become the reference address for large-scale resort development in mainland China. The property sits within a cluster of internationally affiliated hotels that have reshaped how premium leisure travel reads in this part of Asia, making it a useful point of comparison for anyone mapping the bay's accommodation tier.
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Sanya’s beach-club culture is less about late-night cocktail theatre than daylight pacing: pool, sea air, resort service, and drinks designed for heat. Beach Club at EDITION (Adults Only) 海滩俱乐部 （仅限成人） sits on Hai Tang Bei Lu in Haitang District, giving adults a hotel-beach setting where the bar programme should be judged by refreshment, restraint, and how well it fits a long coastal afternoon.
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