Tangram Hotel Xinyuanli Beijing
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Looking for a place to stay in Beijing? Then look no further than Tangram Hotel Xinyuanli Beijing, a trendy motel that brings the best of Beijing to your doorstep.
Youāll enjoy relaxing rooms that offer air conditioning, and you can stay connected during your stay as Tangram Hotel Xinyuanli Beijing offers guests free wifi.
Plus, Tangram Hotel Xinyuanli Beijing offers free breakfast, providing a pleasant respite from your busy day.
While staying at Tangram Hotel Xinyuanli Beijing, visitors can check out Taikoo Li Sanlitun (1.3 mi) and Solana (1.4 mi), some of Beijing's top attractions.
During your visit, be sure to check out one of Beijing's popular dim sum restaurants such as Din Tai Fung (Yuyang), Duck De Chine, and Jin Ding Xuan(DiTan), all a short distance from Tangram Hotel Xinyuanli Beijing.
If youāre looking for things to do, you can check out Sanlitun Bar Street (1.1 mi) or Ghost Street (Gui Jie) (1.2 mi), which are popular attractions amongst tourists, and they are all within walking distance.
Weāre sure youāll enjoy your stay at Tangram Hotel Xinyuanli Beijing as you experience everything Beijing has to offer.
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It also not far from the airport train expressway, in between Dongzhimen and Sanyuanqiao stops. Although you can walk from the Dongzhimen, I would recommend take that fast shuttle and take a taxi from Dongzhimen or Sanyuanqiao if you have luggage, to avoid the traffic jam on airport freeway. Also the official address is not good for taxi drivers. It is a small alley off Xindong Lu. Tell the taxi driver to go to Xindong Lu, and you'll see the hotel logo from there.
The hotel is very recent. It has been furnished with modern design furniture, very functional.
Also the rooms have no carpets, which are not good for allergies. The Internet connection is OK. The breakfast is not great, but OK. At least they have decent coffee, which is rare in Chinese hotels at that price.
There are restaurants not far in Xinyuan lu, at the intersection with Shunyuan Lu, and of course the famous Ding Tai Fung going south from the hotel about 500 meters, and other restaurants in the same street.
Breakfast is also great, lots of variety for a filling meal. WiFi is also free and quite speedy. Overall, a great experience, and would visit again.
Pros:
- Rooms/decor are very modern and sleek. B
- Great price.
- Large bathrooms.
- Breakfast included has a decent selection of food.
- Large comfortable bed.
- VERY clean!
Cons:
- Paper thin doors/walls. You can hear when anyone coughs, closes their door or talks.
- It's difficult to find a staff member that speaks English well.
Overall I liked the hotel quite a bit except for the thin doors and walls.
2. Most of the staff didn't smile at all, and were extremely rude. THEY ALSO DIDNT EVEN KNOW WHAT A KING SIZE BED WAS! They are so unprofessional! They need professional training and a lesson on how to friendly!
3. The room looks way better in the pictures! Extremely paper-thin walls, we can hear people taking a shower! They have no face towel! And the bath towels are not clean at all ( hints of yellow substances ). "Private bathroom" more like, I can see you clearly through the window. The bed was sticky. Ew.
4. Every person we saw that day in the buffet was disgusted, unimpressed and upset.
2. You can catch the bus to Sanlitun and back (only 3 stations) - Bus 110,120 and 623
What everyone fail to mention is how thin those walls are (except Beverly916), I can hear the floor below us placing coins on the desk, someone clearing his throat (perks!), etc etc... the list goes on
In reality Chinese do speak really loud, so you can imagine at 12 midnight when you are dozing off, all that you can hear is some guy's entire conversation shouting into the phone.
Though the local food is not bad and well priced, most plates are chipped and the soup bowl has stain around it.
There is a coffee machine but you can never get them to make you fresh coffee or espresso in the morning. (it's ok if customer has to pay for it, just inform them the price).
Breakfast is bare minimal but sufficient though I wish with it's bare minimal spread at least the quality should be there but, no chance there was well. The fruit always appears as if it as been left overnight and not all slots work for the toaster.
The butter is an entire bowl where you scoop from (yes, very canteen/tuckshop style).
Lastly, ladies, do bring your own shower amenities. Shampoo/ conditioner and all unless you want to use the same gel for hair/body which they provide in a squeeze bottle.
will I stay there again? Very unlikely.
friendly staff
Breakfast could be more consistent for a 4 star hotel
The hotel is located quite close to the central area
inconvenient not much to do in the area. (the blocks)
The hotel was only opened in June and is quite well decorated in a modern style, but no safe in the room, so we packed our valuables in our cases which we can lock. We had lunch in the restaurant and I was pleasantly surprised they had a good Kung Po chicken, freshly cooked for 46 yuan. Ling ordered fried rice, but kicked up a stink when it only had about one egg and a few spring onions in it.
Then we went for a walk outside to look for a shopping mall and although we found the nearby Lido mall, it looked very expensive, like shops in the Burlington Arcade in London, so we quickly walked out again. Ling was talking about changing our hotel, as there were no interesting shops anywhere nearby, but after weād walked around a bit, a guy directed us to the nearest underground and as it was only about 15 minute walk away, Ling decided to stay in this hotel and maybe take the train tomorrow morning to Wan Fujing Lu.
On the way back an elderly lady tried to get some monoey off us by constantly shouting āHelloā, but Ling told her to go away. Then we stopped at a Paris Baguette for a coffee and croissant and thought about coming back for breakfast here tomorrow morning, as the hotel charges 68 yuan.
Back at the hotel, we watched a film directed by Kenneth Branagh, canāt remember rthe name, but a thriller involving CIA and Russian spies etc and also featuring Kevin Costner.
Then I had a shower and made a cup of tea and didnāt bother with dinner as we both felt full up after lunch at 2.00 pm.
Ling also has used about a third of my large suitcase with various Chinese medicines. The only pills I take is one packet of Selenium ACE vitamins, I brought from UK and have been taking 1 a day for about 12 years. Not sure what benefit there is , but I take them 'just in case', as well as my suitcase.
We're allowed to take 2 x 23 kgs large case each, as checked in baggage, plus 5kgs cabin baggage. It's a bit much to manage all that, so we're taking a 23 kgs case each, plus a 10 kilo smaller case each, as check in. In addition, I take my laptop and a small back pack as carry on and Ling has a holdall, plus usual hand bag.
I keep all my papers and electrical stuff in the back pack, including the new Amoy digital video player and can watch up to 2 hours of film, TV etc on it, with the in-battery. Plus we've got a a spare battery charged device each, which you can plug in to most devices, which gives about 4-5 hours of power. We packed another 2 in our check in cases, but these weren't allowed on the plane and confiscated. The plane journey is direct flight to UK and takes about 9 hours.
Temperature in Beijing is about 22 degrees and I think UK was 18 when I last checked.
Next day, we caught a bus down to the underground at Jintai and got tickets for 5 yuan each to Nan lu hu xiang, changing from line 8 to 6 halfway. Ling had heard people talking about this place, so as we hadnāt been before it was worth a look.
It was in fact an interesting street, in a sort of Hu Tong district, originally built during the Ming Dynasty. It was full of quaintly decorated shops and restaurants, with several small alleys leading of, with houses and more shops, with just about enough room for 1 car to travel down, threading through the many pedestrians.
We couldnāt help stopping to buy more souvenir gifts to take back to UK. I bought some playing cards with photos of old Beijing, a gourd fashioned into a tea strainer for 20 yuan, some attractive and fragrant soap and Ling bought a colourful bag and some material, always conscious that we couldnāt squeeze much more into our cases.
Near the end of the street, we found a nice shop in a side street, selling postcards and books and I managed to buy about 40 different stamps for about 34 yuan.
Then we went to cafĆ© number 36 where they were serving Western food and I had a spaghetti bolognaise and Ling had rice with some chopped pork. This came to 84 yuan. Then we went to another place selling snacks and Ling had a kind of fried egg pancake, with rice and some chopped veg inside and I had some small crabs, deep fried in batter, where you had to eat the whole thing, including shells, which wasnāt very good.
We were going to Wan Fujing Lu afterwards, but as there was plenty to see in this street, we decided against it.
On the way back to the hotel we saw an Irish pub, with a lot of Westerners outside, playing a game of throwing bean bags at a piece of wood with a hole in it. We bought some lichees, which had curly red skins, which apparently are good for diabetes., At the hotel I was dismayed to find Iād made a mistake about how many cases we check in free. I thought it was 2 at 23 kgs, but on checking again, that was only for flights going to and from America. I began to panic, but Ling was quite controlled about it and she phoned the airline and they said we could check in online for an extra case and pay an extra 230 yuan. This seemed OK and when I went online, I was able to order and pay for another case up to 23 kgs.
We only had a small carry on case, so we unpacked everything again and put all the heavier stuff into the small case and with a lot of juggling and repacking, I think weāve managed to get everything into the right cases and I checked the weights on a large set of scales in the gym.
The hotel was clean and modern, but with a limited but expensive choice of breakfast. If you can find a Chinese cafe, you can usually get rice soup, boiled eggs and fried bread for about 20 yuan for 2 people, but as we couldn't find one, we settled for the hotel breakfast. Service was quite good and everything clean.
"some rooms faces an office building where everyone can look into your room. So ask for one that doesn't (if there is one)"Read full review
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