Beijing Downtown Backpackers Accommodation — Hotel in Beijing

We stayed 4 nights in April 2024 and had a great stay. We booked a super deluxe double room via Booking.com for ¥864 a night (around €112). The room was quite spacious with a seating area and a table with bar stools. It looked exactly the same as the photos online and was in excellent condition. ||Communication with the hotel through Booking was excellent. They organised an airport pick up for us on arrival for ¥200. The staff, Zachary and Sunshine, were also extremely helpful during our stay. For example we didn’t know you have to book to visit Tiananmen Square and Sunshine did it for us on her phone and also helped with a restaurant booking. She also booked our return taxi to the airport. ||The hotel is located in an extremely busy hutong which is full of touristy shops and food outlets and is packed at all times. Off this hutong are quiet ones which are nice to wander around. You can walk to Shichahai subway station in around 10 minutes. The Houhai lakes and drum and bell towers are also in walking distance. ||The hotel is listed on Google Maps as ‘Beijing downtown backpackers’ so presumably it used to be a hostel. The reception and corridors look like a budget hotel and could do with some redecoration. However, the room itself was nice with new furniture and good amenities. The only thing missing was a fridge and a couple of things need updating in the bathroom. Despite the busy location, the hotel was very quiet. Note that the hotel does not offer any breakfast options. There are a couple of cafes nearby as well as a Starbucks.||Overall a good option and reasonably priced....

We stayed 4 nights in April 2024 and had a great stay. We booked a super deluxe double room via Booking.com for ¥864 a night (around €112). The room was quite spacious with a seating area and a table with bar stools. It looked exactly the same as the photos online and was in excellent condition. ||Communication with the hotel through Booking was excellent. They organised an airport pick up for us on arrival for ¥200. The staff, Zachary and Sunshine, were also extremely helpful during our stay. For example we didn’t know you have to book to visit Tiananmen Square and Sunshine did it for us on her phone and also helped with a restaurant booking. She also booked our return taxi to the airport. ||The hotel is located in an extremely busy hutong which is full of touristy shops and food outlets and is packed at all times. Off this hutong are quiet ones which are nice to wander around. You can walk to Shichahai subway station in around 10 minutes. The Houhai lakes and drum and bell towers are also in walking distance. ||The hotel is listed on Google Maps as ‘Beijing downtown backpackers’ so presumably it used to be a hostel. The reception and corridors look like a budget hotel and could do with some redecoration. However, the room itself was nice with new furniture and good amenities. The only thing missing was a fridge and a couple of things need updating in the bathroom. Despite the busy location, the hotel was very quiet. Note that the hotel does not offer any breakfast options. There are a couple of cafes nearby as well as a Starbucks.||Overall a good option and reasonably priced....

Amazing hotel with beautiful, clean rooms. The location is great too - close to many attractions and in the middle of the coziest hutong-area with many great places to eat. The staff was also super nice and helpful!

The best part of the hotel experience was that they helped us arrange a trip to the wall for 500 yuan per person. The trip inlcuded transport to and from the wall and approx. 3-4 hours on the wall. We were in total 5 people doing the trip and our very nice guide, Jackie, instructed us how to get from our starting point to the meeting point. After that, it was like climbing the wall independantly - we could freely split up and walk in our own tempo, which was greatly appreciated as some parts of the wall are honestly very difficult to walk/climb. The part we were taken to had almost no other tourists and very few people in general. We got to watch the sunset and eat a simple but amazing dinner at a farmers restaurant (vegetarian options available) after descending. All in all an...