Xiyuan Hotel

The Xiyuan Hotel was a great place to 'home base' from while staying in Beijing, it was close to all the things I wanted to do and see. The room was clean, quiet, and comfortable. The only draw back, the smell of cigarette smoke every so often from the hallway, this smell never came into the room. The staff were always very courteous and friendly. If staying in downtown Beijing for a few days, I would recommend staying here.

Facilities are old and lack of maintenance. Bathroom door and tiles are very worn. Lots of rust in shower. Bathroom could use a thorough cleaning or renovation. A bigger bar fridge with freezer would be nice.

The rooms was clean and nice . average value. Hotel lacks character. English speaking skills very poor. No real bar or decent restaurant and no wine choice. Purely stay for close proximity to Exhibition centre. Very little choices around for restaurants /leisure

The stay was fine but the hotel is average with average breakfast and English speaking staff very limited. There is no real restaurants or bars in the hotel I could recommend and coffee id about AUD$ 10. Don't stay here if you are sight seeing.

I arrived at 10 am, so my reservated room in the annex building was not ready or they thought it was not clean enough for a businessmen (showed up good dressed). So i was upgraded to the main building. This might be very important to know. The room were quite big with all necessary infrastructure. Shower etc. were clean an up to date. The infrastructure of the hotel is various, i defenitely can recommend every in house restaurant there. Small but clean swimmingpool. Staff was always helpfull and mostly very friedly. If i met a staff which does not understand you after the second time, they showed up with an ohter one who's english was better. I had to extend my stay two times. First time i asked at the reception. They told me about the upgrade and the next night will cost the double price, because there were no more of the cheaper rooms free (what was of course not true). I paid it anyway because of tiredness. The second extention i booked over agonda again and asked then at the reception if i really had to change to the cheaper annexbuilding or if they can left me in the upgraded room, they accepted without questioning. I defenitely will sho up there again, if i have to be situated near Beijing Exhibition Center.

When we arrived at the hotel, we were directed to the check in counter in the main building. The main building is exceptional for the price we paid. Unfortunately, our room is NOT in the main building. But in the villas at the back of the hotel and we actually had to walk there. As it turned out, there is no elevator in the villa. We were really disappointed. Agoda should note in the hotel page that the annex building is without elevator. The room is surprisingly very clean, so is the bathroom. And there is an internet connection in the room. The cons of the room are the pillows. There are two pillows. The first looks quite comfy but very smelly (because it has no cover, and had been used by previous guests without being washed afterwards). and the second is very hard. However, except for the pillow, the hotel is very nice. The location is great, near the Beijing Zoo Subway Station, and public bus stop is just a short walk.

we stayed in the hotel for two nights and we were really impressed by the service this time; everything was much better, including breakfast, than during our first staying, one year ago. we are very thankful for a polite staff in the hotel. for future, it would be great to have comfortable furniture (sofas) in the lobby to take coffee and have rest.

been to a lot of cities in China, meaning I am quite used to not-really-attentive attitude of staffs in Chinese hotels. The receptionists here beat the other Chinese hotel receptionists in that regard. I couldn't get access to wi-fi in my room and went down to the reception desk asking for help. Well, they snorted at my request. It turned out that initial wi-fi connection was available only in the lobby. If the connection is off in the room, you have to go down all the way to the lobby. When checking out, it took forever as they did not understand English.

clean, nice, price reasonable

- Do not even think of booking rooms of standard categories, they are very much dated, but still currently undergoing some renovations - Rooms on Executive Floors are renovated ones, but not very spacious - Problems with air con may occur - No 24h room service, one can hardly get his Udon during the night time - Staff is very far from being friendly and helpful - Please be careful with room descriptions on Agoda, since the reality might turn differently... Overall: if you have to stay close to BJ Exhibition Center for business, this is one of a few available options; if you can allow more flexibility - better stay somewhere else, there are so many options to stay in BJ.

The hotel is nice enough but if you are a non-smoker it will be tough since enerything is smoking. The service was fine, and the rooms adequate. The prices at the little convenience store were outrageous but that seems to be consistent in the industry.

I have stayed in many hotels , and this was one of the worst! Great location for zoo, but thats it. Breakfast was terrible we had a suite, so exec breakfast, asked for eggs benedict (was on the menu) the waitress came back with "the chef said NO!,staff not helpfull,we arrived evening, so tried room service , it had finished really early.would not stay here again.

xiyuan hotel is an old-style party run hotel. there is nothing wrong with it, but its dated and the service is not up to standard. by now most of the better hotels in beijing are run corporately but a few are still state owned and operated. xijuan hotel is one of those. my business interests are quite literally right next door so for me its a good choice. for others...maybe not so much. i did receive a free upgrade. the room had a nice view and was clean. the bed a little too well used and bowed in the middle. the bathroom was fine but the water pressure and temperature not great. all in all, if you have a real reason to be in haidian district then the xijuan is fine. you will get what you paid for.

Impresive entrance, separate for businesclass The recptionist at business level could not speak english well During happy hour - They only supply coffee or tea, no drinks or biscuits Revolving restaurant not rotateting. Service in the excutive lounge - poor, no comunication Rooms much smaller that what I booked and paid for No flowers or plants in the rooms as per foto I orered eggs benedict from the menu at the egg/breakfast-counter, The chef confirmed walked away and never returned

This hotel is close to Carrefour, Subway station, so you dont have worry to about daily needs. On the other hand, there is a Muslim restaurant. Besides that there are many attractive sites around there such as Zoo, Planetarium. But this hotel only offers few TV channel from foreign, most are CCTV :)

I loved the doorman.

Large rooms in large complex. Excellent value for the money.

just ok

Good location!

too far from anything, not even a & eleven near by