Centrally-located Beijing Hotel and other Beijing, China Hotel/Accommodation Reviews

I have mixed emotions about this hotel. The room was comfortable enough, and the hotel staff must get 100% for effort. However, there were many problems, not the least of which was the fact that few of them spoke English very well, including the concierges. Most of our requests and comments were received with a perplexed look and a feeble attempt to pretend to understand our problems. This resulted in our realization that, from the very beginning, we would be very much on our own whenever we needed any sort of assistance. The bathtub drained very slowly, if at all, and, our complaints notwithstanding, it was the same when we left as it was when we arrived.
The room has only one narrow closet, no coat hangers, and there was no radio in the room. This was supposed to be the Deluxe Room.
The hotel appears to be a central meeting place for the Westerners who adopt Chinese babies, and, after the 1st week, we were annoyed by the constant parade of Westerners who insisted on strolling with and showing off their newly-acquired trophies in the lobby, the dining room, the lounges, and in every other part of the hotel. Quite annoying. This, in itself, would be enough to prevent me from ever using this hotel again. Sort of like waking up one morning and finding out that your nice hotel was no more than a brothel.

Unique Qualities: One of the most impressive things about the Wangfujing Hotel was that, every time a taxi pulled into the driveway, a bellhop wrote his license number on a hotel card and gave it to us with instructions to inform them of any problems we had with the taxi driver. We had to take them up on this 3 or 4 times, and, on one occasion, they apprehended the driver who had grossly overcharged us and they would have had him arrested and jailed had we just given them the word. We told them that we would be satisfied if he were simply warned and not allowed to use the facility again, but they insisted on returning the money that I had paid him, in full, and they seemed to be disappointed that we didn't want to have him incarcerated. Other hotels may do this also, but this was the only one in which we stayed.

First and foremost, however, is the fact that this hotel is the only moderately priced hotel that is close to the Wangfujing fussganger, and we were able to walk up and down Wangfujing or catch the 1 yuan (13 cents) bus to the many, many shops on Wangfujing. I guess what I am trying to say is that it is very conveniently located to many places, including Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, Jingshan Park, Beihai Park, and the huge Oriental Plaza shopping mall.

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Theme: Hotel
Comparison: more expensive than average
Prices: US$40-80  » Currency Converter
Phone: 861065221188
Address: 57 Wangfujing Avenue Beijing 100006
Directions: Very centrally located.
Website: http://www.wangfujinghotel.com/english/index.htm