Days Inn Forbidden City Beijing — Hotel in Beijing

The Days Inn Forbidden City, Beijing, is a perfectly adequate hotel in a central location. However, there are some major problems to be addressed:||1) The Wi-Fi in the rooms is nonfunctional, and the signal in the reception area is spotty at best. Coupled with Google and several VPNs being blocked in China, it is nearly impossible to get any online work done. Without a smartphone, one is really cut off from the outside world.||2) The basement rooms are dingy, but acceptable. The cleaning staff does a good job with the daily tidying. However, the carpets are so filthy that the soles of one’s feet will turn black from walking barefoot in the room. ||3) The hallways reek of cigarette smoke, and the noises of doors slamming and loud conversations in the hallways—from the mainly Chinese clientele—continue late into the night.||4) I would say the major issue is that the staff are unprepared/untrained to deal with international clientele and the normal requirements that such guests need addressed. While the staff are generally polite and helpful, a major issue is their lack of English language skills. Communication is extremely difficult (and usually conducted through smartphone translation apps). Even the simplest of tourist questions about Beijing were nearly impossible to extract an answer about. Questions about directions or even museum opening hours were excruciating to get satisfactorily answered. For example, when I asked a reception staff member about the procedures for obtaining tickets to the National Museum, I was told that the museum was closed. The museum was not closed. ||My recommendation for the Days Inn Forbidden City Beijing, is that it is a perfectly adequate place to stay. The price is decent, and the location is quite central. Just be prepared for little-to-no Wi-Fi access, and almost no meaningful communication with staff. If you come prepared with no real expectations, and a sense of adventure, the Days Inn Forbidden City Beijing is a reasonable...

The Days Inn Forbidden City, Beijing, is a perfectly adequate hotel in a central location. However, there are some major problems to be addressed:||1) The Wi-Fi in the rooms is nonfunctional, and the signal in the reception area is spotty at best. Coupled with Google and several VPNs being blocked in China, it is nearly impossible to get any online work done. Without a smartphone, one is really cut off from the outside world.||2) The basement rooms are dingy, but acceptable. The cleaning staff does a good job with the daily tidying. However, the carpets are so filthy that the soles of one’s feet will turn black from walking barefoot in the room. ||3) The hallways reek of cigarette smoke, and the noises of doors slamming and loud conversations in the hallways—from the mainly Chinese clientele—continue late into the night.||4) I would say the major issue is that the staff are unprepared/untrained to deal with international clientele and the normal requirements that such guests need addressed. While the staff are generally polite and helpful, a major issue is their lack of English language skills. Communication is extremely difficult (and usually conducted through smartphone translation apps). Even the simplest of tourist questions about Beijing were nearly impossible to extract an answer about. Questions about directions or even museum opening hours were excruciating to get satisfactorily answered. For example, when I asked a reception staff member about the procedures for obtaining tickets to the National Museum, I was told that the museum was closed. The museum was not closed. ||My recommendation for the Days Inn Forbidden City Beijing, is that it is a perfectly adequate place to stay. The price is decent, and the location is quite central. Just be prepared for little-to-no Wi-Fi access, and almost no meaningful communication with staff. If you come prepared with no real expectations, and a sense of adventure, the Days Inn Forbidden City Beijing is a reasonable...

We were in Beijing for 2 days tour and chose this hotel for our stay since we would be out for most of the day and needs a place to crash at night. Hence we looked for someplace within our budget and right in the middle of the city. We spotted Days Inn since it offered a good price and is very close to all the main spots and all of the tour companies offered pickup from here. We noticed that most of the people who chose this hotel were tourists and from different nations but the staff seemed to decently manage them all. Usually when the tour guides come for pickup, they arrange to call to our rooms so it was convenient. The hotel lobby can get crowded in the morning due to tour pickups. The hotel also provided day tours at a cheap price, but we had booked tours via klook so cant comment on that.||The room chosen by us were basement rooms since we were there as a couple space didn't matter. Like other reviewers had mentioned the room looked slightly worn down, but everything was functional and clean so it didn't matter. Also regarding the windows, there are small ceiling windows which open to the garden outside, but we didn't use it since we turned on the AC. Regarding safety of the adjacent building where the basement rooms are located, we found that the building is accessible via electronically opening the doors using our room keys, so outsiders do not have access to the building. ||When we were checking out they allowed to store our luggage for the whole day while on tour and while leaving Beijing the front desk tried helping us in getting a taxi to the station. When they couldn't find one, they helped us in getting to the bus stop and taking a bus with clear directions on how to go etc. I would thank the staff for...