Mercure Chengdu North — Hotel in Chengdu

We stayed here as part of a tour with TripADeal. It was called the Spring Downtown Hotel Standard, in our itinerary, but this is the address and the hotel.||||Large comfortable rooms, attractive decor and clean. The rooms are starting to look a little old. Mainly this was a place for us to stay after a flight and before we headed on to Yichang. ||||There is a restaurant in the hotel and a kiosk in the lobby. Elevators are extremely slow so allow time for that. ||||The bed was good. We expected it to be hard, being in Asia, but this was comfortable for us.||||Coffee and tea is available in the lobby though: (1) Default coffee is very sweet, (2) prices charged were higher than what was on the menu (and what I was told verbally), (3) English is limited so it's better to go for a tea on the menu than ask for hot chocolate (if you don't drink coffee), (4) it takes them a very long time to make you a drink.||||If you come out of the hotel, there is a building on the left that says it is a spa (possibly 3 stories worth). I haven't tried it.||||Following the foot path further there is a convenience store (good for getting more water) and just beyond that is a green grocer (where we picked up delicious cumquats far sweeter than we've had elsewhere since they were in season and jujube fruit).||||There are shops across the road but we were too tired to navigate the pedestrian overpasses.||||Those are all the tips I have...

I was quite surprised when I arrived at the hotel. The building and the surrounding looks abandoned and creepy. Indeed it was abandoned except the hotel. How can it be categorised as 4 star or 5 star hotel? The main door is faulty, there's no bellboy. The mini-mart at the back is not direct access, you have to walk from outside to the back in the dark alley. The reception has no idea about the operation hour of the mini-mart. There was one night we already walked to the mini-mart and saw that it was chained but lights still on. We walked back to the hotel and double confirmed of its operation time. The reception said it's opened and lead us again to the mini-mart using her key card through the hotel. She didn't even assist to check whether it's open or not for us and shut the door behind us. Indeed the mini-mart isn't open and we had to walk one round from the outside back to the hotel which was really frustrated! What kind of service is this? It is also a weird practice that they don't close the room doors that has already been cleaned. They were left opened with lights off, so was our room when we checked in. The only good here is that it's near to Kuan Zhai Alley that's all. But there are so many other options also with this rate, it's not cheap. Breakfast...

After 21 days in China, I booked this one largely because it said it had laundry facilities (self-service) available and also has a small fitness center next to the laundry. Had several staff (3-4) at front counter, but took about 10 minutes to check in. Rate was $108 a night without breakfast included.|| The room was nice, bed mattress was not too firm. Had a coffee machine and small fridge with 3-5 drinks that are free and that they refill every day. || The nearest metro looked like it was The First Tunnel, but it appeared closed. Other than that, the one in Tianfu Square is the closest and is an easy 10 minute walk to the hotel. There is a McDonalds and Starbucks located diagonal to the hotel, and a good restaurant next to the hotel. || It's about a 10 minute walk to Tianfu Square, Sichuan Museum, and Sichuan Science & Technology Museum (a big statue of Mao is in front), and about 15-20 minutes to The People's park. There is also Chunxi Pedestrian Road nearby with lots...