Sofitel Xian On Renmin Square 5 estrelas

This is the worst 5 star I have ever been to. I'm not sure why it's called a 5 star. It is rather a 2.5 star. This is only because the staff were very nice and helpful. The building and facilities are very old and tired. Room quality is abysmal with patch and paint work very visible. It smelt badly and the toilet was in a very poor state with instructions on how to flush it. I could see dirt up the ceiling, lying down from my bed. It was an unbelievably poor experience and I had to leave after one night and cut short my 5 night stay to find a better place to lay my head. I chose Sofitel because I have been to other Sofitel hotels and know the quality they provide. Unfortunately I had just arrived from one 5 star hotel and this felt like a nightmare. If you plan to visit the Sofitel at Renmin Square in Xi'an, then think again. If you just want somewhere with a good location and don't care about 5 star services then ignore this review.

Excellent service and very nice people from all the stuff at 11 floor sofitel in special Jennifer for be friendly with us. FOOD AND drinks very good quality, room very clean, I will back for sure. Location perfect.

Excellent service from the staff on 11th flour. First time to Sofitel Xi’an renmin square, nice start of our trip to Xi,an. Late checkin in but warm welcome. Room upgrade, free access to the execute lounge

Good hotel in a very central part of Xian and close to all attractions within the city wall. Nice big room with a good view of the city. Good breakfast and friendly staff. However, a few things could have been better : (1) Our room was generally quite warm. Indeed the weather outside was between 34-37 degrees centigrade, but we noticed the room quite warm also in the evening/night. Maybe there was something wrong with the a/c system (2) Breakfast...I would expect a hotel like Sofitel to have fresh juices for breakfast. There was only one fresh juice (cucumber)...the rest packet type juice. I would also expect that arriving for breakfast at 9.30 am would not mean that most of the dishes at the buffet breakfast would be empty. (3) We had club benefits during the stay. We did not use this except once for the so-called “high tea”. This was just drinks/tea/coffee and an extremely poor selection of tiny 2cm cakes (there were only a handful of these), biscuits and some fruit. If this was “high tea” then I cannot imagine what “low tea” would have been :) So, all in all, good stay....but I expected much better at a Sofitel

The room was great and comfortable. The food from room service very good. The staff were kind and helpful and spoke good English. Great to walk within the city walls from. Willing to help book tours for the Terracotta Army and other sites in xian.