Grand Mercure Urumqi Hualing

When in the summer the hotel in Urumqi always in a high price , but this hotel just has the lower price in the level like Atour or Hanting , Which is a good place to stay in Urumqi.

This hotel is an embarrassment to the Accor brand. The window in the room is boarded up. How can a room in a five star hotel not even have a window? I called to complain and they said many rooms were like this. And the smell in the room. The bathroom absolutely stinks and emanates throughout the whole room. Hard to sleep it was so disgusting. I'm only here one night so didn't ask to switch rooms. Stay away from this hotel. I can't believe how bad it was

Well located, neat room. The staff some are professional some are not well trained… breakfast has a lot of space to improve.

I stayed two separate nights within a week. Upon entry, the hotel looks very beautiful and has a 5 star decoration above the lobby. However, it's a rather inconvenience hotel for families: - only one person spoke English, so it was difficult to communicate - the hotel restaurant only has Chinese menus with no pictures and the staff had difficulties understanding my mim'ed broken Chinese - room service only starts at 11 p.m.... so how can you feed your children and put them to bed at 8:00 p.m.? - the room service menu is limited, anyhow - the shower has no holder for the shower head, so you have to hold the water and lather - there was construction happening in the room below mine, so I was hearing hammering throughout the night - we had to get a NAT test every single time we entered the hotel. resulting in us getting two NAT tests in one day. (LOL)

Rooms are clean and modern. Staff is all very friendly, quick and helpful. Check-in however takes ages which is due to government regulations, hotel staff still makes the best out of it. Breakfast is okay-ish. Very annoying is that foreigners are fully shadowed and followed by secret police people. After you check in they show up with a car in front of the main entrance. Once you leave they'll follow you wherever you go. No matter you take a cab or a private car or you walk: Several men will follow you whenever you leave the Hotel entrance. I understand the hotel cannot do anything against it.