Jinjiang Inn Beijing Tongzhou Xinhua Street East Guyunhe

The reception staff were as helpful as they could be, considering the language barrier, using a translation app on their phones to answer our questions. The cleaning staff were super lovely. Our room was nice enough with plenty of space, a couch and TV and a comfortable bed...and very clean. For we non-smokers, the room smelt fine and had good ventilation with opening windows. The heating was excellent for our mid-winter stay. The location was excellent with plenty of good restaurants, cafes with coffee and a big supermarket close by. It's also close to the Moon River area, great for walks and with a large collection of zany sculptures, little cafes, a fun fair and the most awesome hotpot restaurant on a beautiful old boat.

We had a lot of trouble finding the hotel as it had no recognizable signage and looked like a shop frontage. The most difficult part of our stay was being able to access our money...the local ATMs wouldn't accept our cards, and the hotel wouldn't accept our cards for payment. Fortunately our relative helped us out... residents use WeChat to pay for things. In future we will make sure that we have CNY currency on hand before leaving home. (The ATM in the inner city hotel we stayed in did work for us.) Our room didn't have a fridge. We only discovered the in-house breakfast room on the basement level on our last day...no-one informed us it was there.