Recently spent 10 days in Beijing. We stayed in the CoteCour for 3 nights, on the recommendation of a friend. We were blown away. Great service, beautiful rooms, helpful and friendly staff

We had seen reviews that something had happened with the hotel, but all seems fine now. Apparently the previous owner was caught evading taxes and is in serious trouble. Whatever, it does not seem to have impacted our wonderful stay in this hotel.

I stayed here last year, and really loved the place.

I am not quite sure of the details, but I believe the current operator took the hotel from the proprietor and designer Shauna Liu during the summer of 2009. So until this is resolved I am protesting. (Well as much as a negative recommendation counts as a protest) - when she gets her hotel back I will give it two thumbs up.

Regards.

This is a nice respite in the bustling city and unfortunately we only had one night to enjoy it. The hotel had an electrical problem the day we arrived so we had to find another place, and we chose to move to Bamboo Garden. And having stayed at both places, I prefer Hote Cote Cour because it had more charm and a more intimate setting. It did feel a tad overpriced but it also felt more personal and sophisticated. The staff were extremely nice and gave us a free night's stay as an apology for the situation. This is not to say Bamboo Garden was a bad experience- it was a very choice -- good location, walkable to the lakes, bars and restaurants around. Good value but the compound seemed large and "hotel-ish" by comparison. Breakfast not included at Bamboo Garden but they have a spa on site and the 1 hour foot massage was terrific.

We booked this hotel in March for the first several nights of our honeymoon beginning on June 24th and received an email confirmation. A colleague of mine was very kind to arrange a car service to pick us up at the airport and take us to Hotel Cote Cour SL. Upon contacting the hotel on June 17th in connection with arranging the car service, she learned that the hotel was closed! They told my colleage, who speaks Mandarin, that they had been closed for weeks for renovation. When I contacted them to find out what was going on since we had a confirmation and no one had contacted us, they told me that they closed 2 days prior because of emergency utility construction. I don’t know which story is true but if my colleague had not found this out, we would have been stranded on their front porch with our bags and nowhere to stay…for the first night of our honeymoon after a long flight to Beijing! They replied with an apology and offered to arrange alternate accommodation but when we accepted that offer (I usually spend days researching to find the perfect accommodation with the most local charm but had one day before departing for our wedding festivities), they didn’t reply to my message overnight and I had to arrange something else myself. Very disappointing.