Road conditions are a pretty crucial concern because the university doesn't have on-campus housing. This means you have to live off-campus. When I was teaching out there -- the main road from Sanya to Lizhigou (where the campus was located) was a muddy mess of construction -- trucks and busses got stuck in the mess daily, causing dreadful traffic jams. Since the foreign teachers have no choice but to commute to work, this makes getting to work a bit dicey. That road was more or less completed by time I left, but the road running from Lizhigou out to Qiongzhou U. (about 2 miles) was still a dirt road. There are few taxis which will agree to run you from Sanya out to Qiongzhou U, because they don't want to get their cars covered with dust and mud, and they're afraid of the local bandits out there. There's a bus that runs from town out to the university, but it's not regular. It's not unheard of to have to wait for that bus for 45 minutes. And then the commute from central Sanya out to the university is about 30 minutes, if the weather is good, and no trucks or busses get stuck in the mud and back up traffic. There's also a couple buses that run from Sanya to Lizhigou, and then you can catch a 3 wheel taxi out to the university. I used the same 2 or 3 drivers, that I got to know and trust, but there are some unscrupulous ones -- they'll charge you way higher than the norm, etc. Plus, one of the female students got raped by one of the drivers. So.... Also, while I was in one of the 3 wheel taxis, I got attacked -- guy tried to yank my bag off (unsuccessfully).

If you can (legally) get a little scooter, and live in Sanya, that would be the best bet -- sounds like it's what the poster above did. But I really question whether the school actually paid for an ocean view apartment -- that just sounds really suspicious. All they were doing when I was there was paying 500 a month for the lousy factory apartments.