Xijiao Hotel Beijing

The hotel is relatively close to Tsinghua University (about 20 minutes walk to the East Gate). The room was was of an adequate standard. Breakfast was decent and inexpensive (30 rmb).

Despite having a 'Do Not Disturb' sign on the door, I received a phonecall from a cleaner trying to service my room. I ate in the hotel one evening and was disappointed by the food.

Although the staff had limited English, they were always more than helpful to meet our requirements. We had many provisions included in our room stay which made our stay much more comfortable, since we stayed 1 month. (ie toothbrushes, fruit, water, paper, shampoo, hand cream etc).

We had a constant clunking noise all night each night from the pipes in the roof in our bathroom. We closed the bathroom door but it was still distracting and annoying. Sometimes the fact that the staff could speak little English became difficult, but just challenged our use of Chinese. Any small problems we encountered were really nothing compared to the hard work of the staff and our clean well-cared for room.

I liked leaving this awful place.

Swimming pool is chargable, took 3 hours to check us into a room, At 1st they offered us a dredful damp box with no window when we had booked the 4 star section. After much complaining and pretending not to speak english we got to speak to a manager who apologised and put us in the proper 4 star room complete with plank to sleep on and as compensation for wasting our day they gave us.... Free breakfast for one when there were 2 of us staying. Plus this hotel is not in a good location for anywhere. Stay elsewhere,everyone we met here hated it.