Like a few little stones in your comfortable walking shoes that spoil a beautiful walk, there are a few things that are highly irritating about this place. Overall the Beijing Kempinski is a pretty good place to stay. the 2 bedroom we're in is spacious. The decor looks pleasant but lived in. The beds are large and comfortable, the towels large and plentiful. A definite bonus is being able to open the windows.
In room dining brings great meals from the various restaurants in the complex, which up to know have always been fresh, tasty and plenty big portioned. The buffet breakfast is literally a smorgasbord of east meets west. Service is occasionally a bit patchy (after 6 times a week for 7 weeks having gone for breakfast there they still ask you wether you want to sit in the smoking or non-smoking section and that is on entering with 2 year old twins)
The top floor swimmingpool, 2 gyms and the supermarket, shopping mall and various service businesses could cause you to never leave the complex. If you want to leave however, the entrance to the efficient, but busy, Beijing metro is next to the hotel or a lot of entertainment and shopping can be had within walking distance. And for a bit of fresh air the courtyard garden is lovely, nearby Chaoyang Park is a 10 minute walk for as much space one could want in a city of 14 million.
Now to those stoney irritations.
The internet. The hotel positions itself as great for business and leisure. Having a good broadband connection is a prerequisite for this I think. All I am getting is excuses and dial-up speeds. After the initial pause(chinese censors perhaps?) the pages take a long time to load. When running a broadband speedtest (by Ookla) I get download speeds as low as 14 KB/sec transfer rates and upload speeds that are 3 times faster??? I'm used MB's per sec so this simply unacceptable to me. The hotel keeps increasing my theoretical possible speed, in reality nothing improves.
Our apartment has 3 showers, two are poky and one is over -a smallish- bath. None will let you have a shower without flooding the bathroom floor. If humankind can get astronauts into space and back easily then a leak free shower shouldn't be this hard.
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