Courtyard Changchun Poly — Marriott FF&E

Project Overview

When Poly Real Estate commissioned the first Courtyard by Marriott in Northeast China’s Jilin Province, the ambition extended well beyond simply opening another internationally branded hotel. The Courtyard Changchun Poly — inaugurated in 2022 at No. 7847 Xihu Avenue in Changchun’s Automobile Economic and Technological Development Zone — was conceived as a landmark that would define the hospitality standard for an entire industrial corridor. As the exclusive FF&E partner for this 286-room property, Zhobai Hotel Furniture was entrusted with one of the most comprehensive hotel furniture programmes we have undertaken in Northeast China: lobbies, guestrooms, dining venues, meeting facilities, and recreation spaces, all coordinated across a single integrated delivery.

The hotel’s location tells the story of its primary commercial purpose. Situated immediately adjacent to the FAW (First Automobile Works) NBD business district and within walking distance of the FAW-Volkswagen manufacturing campus, Courtyard Changchun Poly was built to serve the executives, engineers, and commercial delegations that circulate continuously through China’s automotive capital. Fifteen minutes by car to Changchun West Station, two kilometres from Automobile Park Metro Station, and directly opposite a Wanda Plaza — the property sits at the crossroads of Changchun’s industrial economy and its emerging urban leisure infrastructure. Zhobai’s FF&E specification was calibrated to serve both constituencies: the demanding business traveller who expects international Marriott standards, and the domestic leisure guest discovering that Changchun’s automotive heartland has quietly become one of the most liveable new urban districts in the northeast.

Lobby and Public Arrival Spaces

The arrival experience at Courtyard Changchun Poly sets an immediate tone of contemporary restraint. The exterior facade — a clean-lined commercial tower in warm stone cladding and glass curtain-wall — establishes the property’s corporate identity from the street, while the ground-floor lobby transitions guests into a warmer, more residential atmosphere designed to counteract the industrial character of the surrounding development zone.

Lobby front reception entrance at Courtyard Changchun Poly — The lobby entrance zone sets a tone of contemporary warmth; Zhobai supplied the custom millwork reception counter, entrance console tables, and all FF&E framing the arrival sequence.

Lobby reception counter area at Courtyard Changchun Poly — The reception counter is a Zhobai bespoke fabrication: a curved desk in warm-toned veneer with brushed bronze hardware, designed to project efficiency and approachability simultaneously.

Zhobai’s lobby furniture programme centres on the reception counter — a curved millwork piece in warm walnut veneer with integrated brushed bronze hardware, sized to accommodate three simultaneous check-in positions without appearing monolithic in the double-height lobby volume. Behind the counter, a backlit feature wall carries the Courtyard by Marriott branding in polished metal lettering mounted against a textured stone-effect panel fabricated in Zhobai’s millwork facility in Guangdong and shipped north in completed sections for on-site assembly.

Lobby central lounge space at Courtyard Changchun Poly — The central lobby lounge features Zhobai’s modular sofa and occasional table programme, arranged to define distinct conversation zones within the open-plan lobby volume.

Lobby corner sofa lounge at Courtyard Changchun Poly — Corner lounge zones throughout the lobby use Zhobai’s L-configuration sofa modules — flexible enough to accommodate solo guests with laptops as well as small group meetings.

Lobby long sofa waiting lounge at Courtyard Changchun Poly — The waiting lounge along the lobby perimeter features Zhobai’s long bench sofa — a configuration that maximises seating density during peak check-in periods without sacrificing visual openness.

Lobby corridor passageway at Courtyard Changchun Poly — Zhobai’s corridor programme includes wall-mounted console tables, artwork lighting brackets, and bespoke corridor benches — details that maintain the design language from lobby to lift lobby to guestroom floor.

The central lobby lounge is anchored by a bespoke circular rug — supplied through Zhobai’s soft-furnishings division — around which we arranged a modular sofa system in a warm sand-toned fabric with dark oak frame components. Occasional tables in three height variations allow guests to configure the zone for laptop working, casual conversation, or simply relaxing with the hotel’s complimentary coffee service. Corner lounge zones extend the public seating programme to the lobby perimeter, with L-configuration sofa modules that create semi-enclosed enclosures without physically partitioning the space.

Lobby Bar

The lobby bar at Courtyard Changchun Poly is positioned as an all-day social hub — morning coffee for early departures, afternoon refreshments for arriving guests, and evening drinks for the automotive industry professionals who make up a significant portion of the hotel’s repeat clientele. Zhobai fabricated the bar counter in polished dark granite with a brass-trimmed millwork back bar, the back bar shelving system designed with adjustable display lighting to accommodate both bottle display and the property’s growing glassware collection. Bar stools in a saddle-shaped dark leather were custom upholstered by Zhobai’s soft-furnishings team to the precise seat height required by the counter’s 1,100 mm working surface.

Guestrooms: 286 Keys Across Nine Room Categories

The 286-room inventory at Courtyard Changchun Poly spans a comprehensive range of room types — from efficient standard configurations at 35 square metres to the 74-square-metre suites preferred for corporate entertainment — as well as 90 long-stay apartment-format rooms and a dedicated family room with children’s features. Marriott’s Courtyard brand carries specific FF&E standards documentation, and Zhobai’s project team worked directly with Marriott’s Asia-Pacific procurement liaison to obtain brand approval for all custom pieces before fabrication commenced.

Room entry hall and corridor view at Courtyard Changchun Poly — The guestroom entry corridor: Zhobai specified a mirrored wardrobe door system with recessed handles that maximises the perceived width of entry zones in the 35 m² standard room footprint.

Standard King guestroom living zone at Courtyard Changchun Poly — The Standard King guestroom living zone combines Zhobai’s platform bed base, upholstered headboard, dual bedside tables, and integrated TV console into a cohesive furniture grouping.

Basic King standard guestroom at Courtyard Changchun Poly — The Basic King configuration uses Zhobai’s space-optimised bedside shelf integrated into the headboard panel, eliminating the need for separate nightstands in the room’s more compact floor plan.

Basic Twin standard room at Courtyard Changchun Poly — Twin configurations share the same headboard-and-shelf system as king rooms, with the two single beds positioned to provide adequate circulation while maintaining a unified visual composition.

Blue light double bed guestroom at Courtyard Changchun Poly — Select double-bed rooms feature an LED ambient lighting system behind the headboard panel — a Zhobai electrical integration that allows guests to select warm or cool accent lighting without external fixtures.

Deluxe King cityview bedroom at Courtyard Changchun Poly — The Deluxe King Cityview bedroom features a full floor-to-ceiling curtain system supplied by Zhobai — motorised blackout panels paired with sheer voile in a warm champagne tone.

Deluxe Twin cityview room at Courtyard Changchun Poly — The Deluxe Twin Cityview room accommodates corporate travel pairs with generous desk space; Zhobai specified a full-width floating desk at both wall positions to equalise workspace between the two beds.

High-floor cityview King bedroom at Courtyard Changchun Poly — High-floor king bedrooms benefit from panoramic views of Changchun’s Automobile Development Zone; Zhobai positioned all furniture to maintain unobstructed sightlines from the bed to the floor-to-ceiling glazing.

Family kid-themed King bedroom at Courtyard Changchun Poly — The dedicated family room features Zhobai’s children’s furniture programme: a low-profile bunk unit with rounded corners, an indoor tent structure, and safety-rated soft furnishings — all specified to meet GB 28007 children’s furniture safety standards.

The family room — one of Courtyard Changchun Poly’s most distinctive room type offerings — required Zhobai to develop a bespoke children’s furniture programme alongside the standard adult FF&E. The room features a custom indoor tent structure fabricated in powder-coated steel with canvas panels, a low-profile bunk bed unit with ladder handrails rated to Chinese GB 28007 children’s furniture safety standards, and rounded-corner occasional tables finished in a playful warm yellow. Adult furniture in the same space maintains the property’s standard material language, ensuring the room functions for parents while delighting children — a balance that required unusually close collaboration between Zhobai’s design team and the hotel’s operational planning staff.

Room laundry washer-dryer cabinet at Courtyard Changchun Poly — Long-stay apartment rooms feature a Zhobai-fabricated laundry cabinet that conceals the washer-dryer unit behind full-height joinery doors — a practical necessity for extended-stay guests that demanded precise millwork tolerances for ventilation clearance.

The 90 long-stay apartment-format rooms required a fundamentally different FF&E approach from the transient guest rooms. Zhobai developed a series of high-capacity storage pieces — a floor-to-ceiling wardrobe system with full-extension drawers, a laundry cabinet enclosing the washer-dryer unit behind full-height millwork doors, and a kitchen counter unit with concealed appliance storage — all specified in a durable high-pressure laminate finish rated for the daily wear of extended occupancy. The furniture system’s modular construction also allows the hotel’s housekeeping team to reconfigure individual pieces when a long-stay unit transitions to transient inventory, a flexibility requirement specified by Courtyard’s brand operations team.

Bathrooms: Marble Vanities and Wet-Dry Separation

Guestroom marble bathroom vanity at Courtyard Changchun Poly — Zhobai’s bathroom vanity units are finished with a honed marble counter top and moisture-resistant MDF carcase — the drawer system uses a slow-close undermount runner rated to 80,000 cycles for hotel environment durability.

Room bathroom bathtub space at Courtyard Changchun Poly — Deluxe and suite bathrooms include a freestanding bathtub zone; Zhobai supplied the adjacent timber bath tray, towel ladder, and all bathroom accessories in a coordinated brushed gold finish.

The bathroom programme at Courtyard Changchun Poly was specified to Marriott’s brand standard for wet-dry separation — a non-negotiable feature in all Courtyard-branded properties in the Chinese market. Zhobai’s vanity units combine a honed marble counter with a moisture-resistant MDF carcase finished in a warm off-white lacquer, the drawer fronts in a matching push-to-open configuration that eliminates the need for visible handles in the compact bathroom footprint. Mirror units above the vanity are framed in brushed gold and incorporate LED strip lighting at 3,000K — matched across all 286 bathrooms to ensure colour-consistent illumination for guests regardless of room floor or aspect. In deluxe and suite bathroom configurations, Zhobai supplied the full accessory programme around the freestanding bathtub: a teak bath bridge, towel ladder, floor-mounted robe hooks, and a wall-mounted magnifying mirror — all in a coordinated brushed gold metal finish.

Dining: Three Venues, Three Distinct Furniture Programmes

Wanhui Western All-Day Dining Restaurant

The second-floor Wanhui Restaurant is the hotel’s primary all-day dining venue — a full-service buffet and à la carte space that opens daily from 6:00 AM for breakfast service and returns for dinner with a sea-food buffet offering. With panoramic city-view windows and a broad open-plan floor plate, the space demanded a furniture programme that could accommodate high-turnover breakfast service in the morning and a more relaxed, convivial atmosphere in the evening.

All-day dining cafe breakfast zone at Courtyard Changchun Poly — The breakfast zone in the Wanhui Restaurant features Zhobai’s commercial dining chair in a sand-coloured upholstered pad — a spec designed for easy cleaning under high breakfast-service turnover while maintaining a refined appearance.

All-day dining blue sofa buffet restaurant at Courtyard Changchun Poly — The Wanhui buffet restaurant features Zhobai’s upholstered banquette seating in a cobalt blue — the hotel’s brand accent colour — running the length of the window wall, with loose dining chairs at the table opposite.

Restaurant wooden floor dining hall at Courtyard Changchun Poly — The main dining hall features warm oak-toned dining tables in three sizes — 2-top, 4-top, and 6-top — allowing the floor team to reconfigure the layout for group bookings or social dining events.

Restaurant long passage dining corridor at Courtyard Changchun Poly — The dining corridor connecting the restaurant zones uses Zhobai’s counter-height table-and-stool programme — an efficient use of transitional space that adds seating capacity without interrupting the flow between venue areas.

Yugong Chinese Restaurant

Chinese restaurant private dining booth at Courtyard Changchun Poly — The Yugong Chinese Restaurant private dining booths feature Zhobai’s high-back banquette seating system — the upholstered back panels provide acoustic separation between adjacent booths in the open-plan dining room.

Small banquet window dining room at Courtyard Changchun Poly — Yugong’s window dining rooms seat private groups of 8–12; Zhobai supplied the round dining table in a red lacquer finish — a traditional Chinese banquet colour choice that reinforces the restaurant’s northeastern Chinese culinary identity.

The third-floor Yugong Chinese Restaurant serves northeast Chinese and Shandong cuisine in a premium environment calibrated for corporate entertainment and family banquets. Zhobai’s furniture brief for this venue was culturally specific: the private dining booths required high-back upholstered seating that simultaneously provided acoustic separation between adjacent groups and communicated the gravitas appropriate for business banquet occasions. We specified a dark rosewood-effect laminate for all table surfaces, paired with throne-style dining chairs in a deep burgundy velvet — a combination that reads as unambiguously formal without veering into the dated aesthetics common in older Chinese banquet restaurants.

Meeting and Banquet Facilities: 1,395 Square Metres of Event Infrastructure

The meeting and banquet programme at Courtyard Changchun Poly is one of the property’s most commercially significant assets. The 1,395-square-metre event floor encompasses five multi-function rooms, a pillar-free grand ballroom with 6.6–7 metre ceiling heights, and a full staging infrastructure — including a 52-square-metre integrated LED wall — capable of accommodating 60 tables for wedding banquets or large-scale automotive industry launch events.

Boardroom long table conference room at Courtyard Changchun Poly — The executive boardroom features a Zhobai bespoke long conference table in a book-matched walnut veneer with integrated power and data modules flush to the tabletop surface.

Small board meeting room at Courtyard Changchun Poly — Smaller meeting rooms accommodate 6–10 delegates with Zhobai’s modular conference table system — individual table modules can be separated and reconfigured for training or workshop layouts.

Theater-style large conference hall at Courtyard Changchun Poly — The large conference hall configured in theater style accommodates up to 300 delegates; Zhobai supplied all padded stacking chairs and the foldable writing tablet arms used in theater and classroom configurations.

Large theater conference hall with stage at Courtyard Changchun Poly — The main conference hall with integrated stage — designed with the automotive industry’s product launch format in mind. Note the 52 m² LED wall behind the stage, with Zhobai’s lectern and stage furniture positioned for presentations.

Banquet round table ballroom setup at Courtyard Changchun Poly — The pillar-free grand ballroom configured for a 60-table wedding banquet: Zhobai supplied all round dining tables, banquet chairs with sash covers, and the cake and gift table programme used in the hotel’s standard wedding package.

Banquet hall seating area at Courtyard Changchun Poly — The banquet hall’s stage-view seating zone during a formal dinner event; Zhobai’s gold-tone banquet chair — a model from our hotel seating collection — is specified across all 600+ banquet chairs on this event floor.

Zhobai’s meeting furniture programme at Courtyard Changchun Poly covers every scale of the event floor’s operation. The executive boardroom is anchored by a bespoke conference table in book-matched walnut veneer — 5,400 mm long, 1,200 mm wide — with flush-mounted power and data modules at each seating position, specified in coordination with the hotel’s AV integrator so that cable management and technology infrastructure align precisely with Zhobai’s table carcase design. Smaller meeting rooms use a modular conference table system whose individual modules can be separated and reconfigured by hotel staff without tools, enabling classroom, boardroom, and hollow-square layouts from the same furniture inventory.

For the grand ballroom, Zhobai supplied 600 gold-tone banquet chairs — our standard hotel banquet model with a padded seat and sash-ready back — and 60 round dining tables in a dark walnut laminate surface. The chair’s stackability (12 chairs per stack) was a critical specification parameter: the ballroom’s rapid-reset requirements between wedding lunch and corporate dinner events depend on housekeeping being able to clear and redress 60 tables in under two hours, a timeline that drove every handling-efficiency decision in the banquet furniture specification.

Recreation Facilities

24-hour fitness gym center at Courtyard Changchun Poly — The 24-hour fitness centre on the sixth floor; Zhobai supplied the equipment storage units, towel service station, and all freestanding furniture in the gym environment.

The sixth floor recreation level houses the hotel’s full fitness centre, yoga room, and indoor heated swimming pool — all available to hotel guests at no additional charge. Zhobai’s scope on this level was focused on the fitness centre’s peripheral furniture: equipment organiser racks, a towel service station, a trainer’s desk unit, and the locker room benching system. The pool surround was furnished with Zhobai’s resin-weave sun loungers — a model selected for its resistance to the chlorine-laden humid environment that rapidly degrades standard upholstered furniture in indoor pool settings.

Project Delivery and Zhobai’s Integrated FF&E Approach

Delivering a 286-room Marriott-affiliated hotel opening in Northeast China’s winter climate presented logistical considerations that a supplier without deep Chinese market experience would struggle to manage. Zhobai’s Changchun Poly project was planned with delivery sequencing that anticipated the region’s late-autumn weather constraints: all exterior and ground-floor furniture was delivered and installed first, while guestroom furniture followed in a floor-by-floor sequence coordinated with the building contractor’s room completion schedule.

Brand approval — a mandatory step for any FF&E piece that deviates from Marriott’s Courtyard prototypical specification — was managed by Zhobai’s project team through a structured sample submission process: material samples, finish boards, and prototype pieces were submitted to Marriott’s Asia-Pacific architecture and design team at defined project milestones, with review timelines built into the overall project schedule rather than treated as potential delays. All brand-approved custom pieces carry documentation filed with both the hotel owner and Marriott’s records system, ensuring that future renovations can reference original specifications precisely.

Courtyard Changchun Poly opened in 2022 to become the first Courtyard by Marriott in Jilin Province and the first international chain hotel brand in the Automobile Economic and Technological Development Zone — a milestone that carries commercial significance for every stakeholder in the project. Zhobai is proud to have contributed the complete FF&E programme to a property that continues to earn a 4.7-star aggregate rating on Ctrip and serves as the hospitality standard-bearer for one of China’s most strategically important industrial districts.

About Zhobai Hotel Furniture

Zhobai Hotel Furniture is a full-service FF&E partner for four- and five-star hotel projects across China and internationally. From millwork fabrication and upholstered seating to soft furnishings, bathroom accessories, and banquet equipment, Zhobai manages the complete furniture lifecycle from design brief through installation and post-opening support. Our project portfolio spans Marriott, Hilton, IHG, Wyndham, and independent luxury brands — each engagement managed by a dedicated project team accountable for on-time delivery and brand-compliant quality across every item in the FF&E schedule.