“Hutong experience in traditional style hotel”

The actual name in front of hotel is East Sacred, and the facade looks exactly as in the photos so just go right in, taxi will drop you on main road so you go into the little lane and walk about 3 minutes to reach. There's a lovely lobby in Chinese style, receptionist bit fussy with details and for… more

The actual name in front of hotel is East Sacred, and the facade looks exactly as in the photos so just go right in, taxi will drop you on main road so you go into the little lane and walk about 3 minutes to reach. There's a lovely lobby in Chinese style, receptionist bit fussy with details and foreigners need to have date of entry stamped by Immigration checked. No elevator, you haul your luggage up one flight of stairs, room fairly large with sink of interesting design like old water mill trough outside bathroom. Bathroom modern fittings but water splashes all over the floor as there's no cabin, no floor mat either. However shampoo and body gel fragrant with essential oils, leaves hair bouncy and fluffy! No fridge, open wardrobe where you can hang clothes adequately. Bed comfortable enough though there's only one rather flat pillow for each person. Cleanliness not tiptop, bit of dust over sheets maybe from construction in area next to our room. Housekeeping also not meticulous as used cups left unwashed and paper cups not replenished. However, there's free flow of hot and cold water in the lobby (a big plus for this hotel) and 2 bottles of water in room. Hotel also can organize Great Wall tours for you but bus leaves early 7am from hotel. Not that near the mrt, walk about 20 minutes through the very busy and touristy Food Street. Mrt to Forbidden City needs 2 changes of lines and one line is long and winding. Probably better to take taxi there but taxis not allowed to stop near the entrance whereas mrt stops at Tiananmen Square and you can walk to entrance to Forbidden City. Best thing about the hotel is the area with lots of small shops for inexpensive meals. We simply loved the little pau shop round the corner which blares out 'Jau chan, Jau chan' (Mandarin for breakfast) from a little megaphone, best pau, soybean and youtiao ever tasted at very cheap prices. They open at 6am so no problem if you need to go off early. Hotel also kindly keeps bags for you if you check out early. Not much or no English spoken.

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“for the money you pay, it is probably the best choice for a hotel in Beijing”

We stayed at this hotel in March this year for about 10 nights. For the money you pay for it, this hotel is really nice. Very good central location; there is a subway nearby and also a big shopping street. Please note, that the central sign with the hotel's name is only in Chinese. It's a good ide… more

We stayed at this hotel in March this year for about 10 nights. For the money you pay for it, this hotel is really nice. Very good central location; there is a subway nearby and also a big shopping street. Please note, that the central sign with the hotel's name is only in Chinese. It's a good idea to have it translated before you go. Also, if you're going there by taxi, have a note with the adress and the name of the hotel in Chinese. English is not really a popular language in Beijing. The hotel staff aslo does not speak much English, but this could be compensated by its friendliness. We managed somehow to communicate and they even ordered a taxi for us the day we had to check out. When we checked-in we had to pay a deposit of about 200 yuan, which we got back the last day. Leaving a deposit was kind of surprise for us but, on the other hand, we checked ourselves in at 6 am..The 24h-reception is a big plus! Our room was clean and nice.It was much better than what we had expected. There is also a TV, but all the programs were in Chinese. All in all, a good choice if you're searching for a nice and reasonably priced hotel in Beijing.

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“Good Location but a bit unusual”

This hotel has a great location being within walking distance of the Forbidden city and also close access to the metro. The taxi driver couldn't find this hotel and took us initially to the Novatel Peace Hotel. Once we arrived at the hotel shown on the picture we entered and were told that the hot… more

This hotel has a great location being within walking distance of the Forbidden city and also close access to the metro. The taxi driver couldn't find this hotel and took us initially to the Novatel Peace Hotel. Once we arrived at the hotel shown on the picture we entered and were told that the hotel was down the alleyway at the side. Pulling the bags down a dark laneway where your not sure where you are going is a bt daunting. We had booked this direct or at lest we thought we had but the girl on the desk just laughed in a condensending manner and said the booking was worthless as it was nothing to do with them. I still got a room ( I had booked a great wall tour to meet me at the hotel) but the price was higher than the other quote and when I tried to use my mastercard she said no Cash Only. Then she said do you want a receipt which we said yes only to be told she can't give me one. why I don't know. the triple room was a little small but okay for what we wanted and served us a abase to get around beijing from. I doubt I would stay here again as although the location is good the hotel itself is a little run down and the service is poor.

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