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 | Tianlun Songhe Hotel Beijing: Basic Hotel
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The hotel lobby is decent enough, but arriving at close to midnight means that it's entirely deserted with only 1 staff manning the reception.
The front desk can speak simple english, but not the housekeeping dept.
Overall, it's a basic hotel at reasonable rates if you just need a place to stay.
The rooms are of reasonable size, but the bathroom is really small.
Even for me, as an Asian, I find it a little too cramp, so I can't really imagine a larger size person trying to move around in the bathroom.
Housekeeping is really quite patient and good. We had to trouble them 3 times in the middle of the night for small things such as how to operate the safe, how to turn on the shower and where the bathroom slippers are.
Each and everytime, they came within 5 mins and each time, they were very patient in assisting us.
The other unique thing is that they change our bathroom slippers and provide new ones everyday. Not entirely common, but really useful to know if you happen to lose them somewhere in the room.
Breakfast, though, needs to be improved upon. It's one of the worst hotel breakfast I ever had. Maybe it's because they don't really know how to make nice international breakfast. I stayed for 5 nights there, and ate my breakfast there once. Theme: HotelPrice: US$20-40 » Currency ConverterComparison: less expensive than averagePhone: 10-6513-8822Directions: Near to Wangfujing, the shopping belt for Beijing.
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| Tianlun Songhe Hotel Beijing: Central and Quiet
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This hotel (formerly the Tianlun Songhe Hotel) is just a block away from Wangfujing Dajie and all of the shopping and eating along this major street destination. It's also only a few minutes walk to the Donghuamen Night Market and Wangfujing Snack Street. A bit further are the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square. Our room was about the size of a mid-level hotel room here in the States (e.g., Hampton Inn) with a large bed, chair with ottoman, and a desk. The dresser included a minibar and safe, the latter free to use for guests. The bathroom had been update with marble and glass and like in most 4-star hotels in China, included a hair dryer, shampoo, conditioner, lotion, toothbrushes, and comb.
Downstairs each morning was a really great breakfast buffet with an omelette station, American favorites, European breakfast items, as well as Chinese dishes such as steamed buns, fresh noodles, and congee (rice porridge). Service is good at all levels, English is spoken at the front desk, and the concierge was quick to help with restaurant and foot massage recommendations. All in all a nice property.
As we were on a tour that included accomodations, I'm not sure what our nightly rate was. However, Trip Advisor lists the average room rate at $111 USD as of 20 January 2009.
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