CityCourt Hotel — Hotel in Beijing

It was my very first time in China and a very delicate moment in my life and this place was exactly what I needed. I came on the Chinese New Year of the Dragon, I must say I was impressed, I really don't have words to explain my experience but I want to invite anyone who like me always had this desire to visit this marvellous and mysterious land and if possible when they celebrate their New Year but for them it's the Spring Festival. I was there for 10 days and they had 10 days of fireworks practically 24 hours a day ...never seen anything like that.|||| It's a very humble and quite small ( Hotel) more like a sheltered court yard with rooms all around it ( very characteristic Chinese style) but you are actually in the heart of where the locals live and in the centre to any place you want to visit in this wonderful City. You have all you need to live comfortably, outside was minus 11 Celsius but the rooms are very warm, I was always in shorts. You can eat there and have room service very cheap, food is home cooked, they speak English, Well, maybe only the young do, don't forget if you don't speak their lingo... have them write you in Chinese the address of the Hotel because when you need to come back after a day out most cab drivers don't speak English and they will abandon you anywhere if there is no communication, they simply don't care if you cannot provide them the destination. They are cheap but of course you have the ones that will try to charge you more.||||You can travel by bus but when you see how it works you will simply catch a cab. Be careful when walking on streets or crossing the roads, ( health and safety is almost non existent) they ride on these electric mopeds ( very silent ) and they creep up very close behind you and at night most of them have no head lights.....||||Anyway it was a great experience and I do recommend this place if you want to save money for accommodations and spend more money for...

This is a nice court-yard hotel in a hutong (alley). Though it's well located, it's not easy to find, and street names are poorly indicated in Beijing. The least they could have is a sign at the next crossroad. Rooms are small but comfortable, and it's not the type of hotel where you spend your days, you want to visit if you book a room in that part of town. What was unpleasant is the fact that they not only ask for a RMB200 deposit, and as I was settling in my room and putting my stuff away and communicating with my better-half to indicate I had made it safely, a staff member knocked on my door and insisted that I pay the entire 5-day stay upfront. This is unusual, to say the least, and this could have been done later. Simply no training of hotel/restaurant staff in China! Also, though this hotel is neatly traditional, the reception area and the area you need to go through to reach some of the rooms are very messy: it's the living quarters of the hotel owner and his family. The court yard would be better without a washing machine and brooms and shovels....

If you want to experience how the Chinese live in Beijing, you should go to this hotel. In the middle of a Hutong, which are residential neighbourhoods in the center of Beijing, you do not see highrises nor large hotel chains. The streets are very narrow, and the people very friendly. Plus, everywhere there are small restaurants with excellent food.||||Citycourt Hotel has a reception area where there is always an English speaking host available. They try very hard to help you. They also have a laundry service for 20 Yuan per kilo. The wifi is very reliable.||||The rooms are good, the beds are very long (over 2.5 meter), the shower is average. All rooms are situated in a courtyard, where you can sit and lounge. There is a water cooler and a water cooker available.||||You will have to walk to the subway station for about 800 meter. It is very safe and there are helpful people...