Name: Beijing Xinghaiqi Holiday Hotel
Address: 89 Di'anmen East Street, Beijing, Beijing, Beijing, 100009, China
Rating: 7

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Dongcheng - Wangfujing

Jingshan Park

Bell and Drum Towers

Beihai Park

Houhai - Back Lakes

Forbidden City

Temple of Confucius

Hall of Supreme Harmony

Lama Temple

Tiananmen Square

Chaoyang Theater

Temple of Heaven

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Beijing Nanyuan Airport

Beijing Capital International Airport

Beijing Daxing International Airport

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I stayed here in the summer of 2010 when I booked a one-week flight+hotel trip to Beijing from Hong Kong, the trip cost only US$900.00. What a deal!! The inn is located within walking distance of Jingshan and Beihai Parks, and the Bell Tower and Forbidden City. Right next door is the famous Nanluoguxiang Hutong. What's amazing about the little hotel room is that there were 7 American power outlets!!

Convenient location, price reasonable

This hotel is decent for what you pay. I have stayed in much better, and I have stayed in much worse. The room is tiny, the beds are hard, and there was mold of some sort growing out of our ceiling. However the front desk staff were very friendly, they book tours for you down at the front desk and schedule taxis for you to the airport if need be. They have a computer you can use and using google translator helped bridge the language gap between the staff and ourselves. They sell some necessities down in the lobby and some snack foods which is helpful and nice. There is a nice looking restaurant on the property that we didn't have the chance to eat in. The hotel is located to a lot of great sights. The forbidden city, mao's mausoleum, and the temple of heaven (a little further than the others) are all well within walking distance. There is no wifi, however there is a ground connection you can plug a lap top into. Like all of china the telvision options are very limited but there was a channel that played a single american movie in chinese each night. There is a great lake filled with tourist places down the street about 5 minutes walking, it's full of great places to eat and lounge. To finish up and come back around to things I didn't like, the shower has no angle built into the drain and so if you use anything more than a trickle for bathing you WILL flood the bathroom floor. The water damage along the door and wall show this is a very common thing. A housekeeper let us know that putting and leaving a single towel on the floor to soak up water and to step on and not slip was very "gross" and made a "this is dirty behavior" face, the jist of this was her trying to tell us not to do this anymore. However given that the shower is surrounded on all sides by glass and the floor floods I don't see what they expect you to do to not slip and fall and potentially get hurt. The toilets are not intended to flush toilet paper like in the west, and I found myself doing what I found myself doing growing up spending summers in central america and putting the toilet paper in the trash can to be thrown out with the garbage. There is a sign at the hotel forbidding prostitution, gambling, and drug use on the property. While this is very understandable the fact that a sign is necessary sort of makes you wonder if this sort of thing has been an issue in the past. We had a late night flight and so we were allowed to stay in the room until about 6-7 p.m. for about 15-20 bucks extra. They obliged and just kept the deposit we left in cash at the beginning of our stay as payment for this. On the whole the hotel is not a great place to stay, but for the price it isn't terrible. If you can afford better by all means stay somewhere else. However if you're on a budget i'm sure there are far worse places to stay in beijing. One of the original and oldest hutongs left in beijing is also within walking distance and is a neat way to spend an afternoon shopping.

You get what you pay for

The staff knows not a single english word (how ever they are friendly and try their best to ubderstand you) and the rooms are dirty. The beds are harder then a rock, seriously you would probably be more comfortable sleeping on the floor.
The WiFi was good.

Yoy can find better for same amount of money

Not sure why anyone stays here but it seems popular with loud Chinese tourists. The rooms badly need updating and unfortunately the drains are pretty smelly. The wifi is so slow as to be practically non existent. The sheets had holes in them.They charge a lot more than much nicer places just around the corner so I really don't get it. I was only paying half price and still felt it was poor value. If you want to pay this much walk up the Hutong to the place with the Starbucks sign. You'll get a nice new room with Antique Chinese furniture for less. It's quite remarkable!

Overpriced and smelly

We were shocked to see the filth and dirt in our first room. The walls were so dirty previous guests had graffitid the wall. We changed room immediately to another grubby room but without the graffiti filth. The bed had lots of black hairs and dirt. The walls had stains and all kinds. The room was cramped and dirty. The key cards never worked. We always had to have staff let us in the room. The cleaners never helped us in they just sat in the corridor staircase. The towels were so dirty. The bed sheets had blood stains on our third night to which I had to have them changed. It was extremely expensive for the dirtiness.

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