Ji Beijing Xuanwu Gate

I stayed here twice whilst in Beijing, good location. Very clean hotel & well looked after, beds are a little hard. Food was excellent, great choices. The hotel kindly let me leave some luggage, free of charge until I returned a week later.

if you stay in this place because of the visit of the Great wall, it is far, but no chance to stay overnight closer to the wall. If you visit Beijing, you better look for some closer location, because it is quite a walk to the ancient center. Hotel has quite large rooms, but checking in is extremely slow and since hotel serves mainly large groups - waiting time is horrendous. Better eat nearby, since the food is better than in this hotel.

Good and frienly Hotel near Tiananmen Square (30 minutes walk!). Clean rooms, good price and a very kind staff. Unfortunately most of the staffmembers do not speak English very well but they do their very best!!

Stayed here as part of a group trip and was far from impressed. Check in slow room was dam right old tatty and dirty. Curtains falling down white curtains grey, air con hardly existent blowing a candle out had more impact. Asked to be moved then second room toilet did not work properly but we were told as we had been moved once we could not be moved again. The staff member who came to the room told us nothing worked properly in the hotel and it was closing so nothing was to be repaired. Breakfast was a joke they were taking things away before you finished eating and very little choice. The hotel was located on the outskirts and in a right shabby part of town. We even saw a local urinating up against a wall. Streets full of litter and smelt awful. Not impressed at all, avoid at all costs. As we were part of a tour we reported it to our guide but did not do any good. Keep clear would certainly not recommend, cheap and nasty typical for a lot of Chinese hotels. We found out later that we had been put on the unreferbished floors.

This is a sizeable hotel which provides decent facilities but is not handily located. It is too far to walk into town and will take at least 10 minutes to get to a tube station. We took a taxi into the centre one day, and are still recovering from the experience. Driving in Beijing seems to be based on waiting for the other road users to 'blink' and let you through. It cost 19 yuan to get to one of the shopping streets near Tiananmin Square. Breakfast on the first floor (Floor 2) is quirky and it can take a while to work out what is where. Tea and coffee are in the dining room - and frequently run out - whilst everything else is outside. There are very few gluten free options apart from some fruit and boiled eggs. We had our evening meal in the hotel once and it was unremarkable. Our room on Floor 11 had been nicely refurbished in a Chinese style - including a tea area in the bay window - but floors 10 and 12 had not yet been refreshed.