Anyone familiar with Jianguo Hotel?
Nov 12th, 2006, 03:35 PM
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Anyone familiar with Jianguo Hotel?
It looks like a beautiful hotel with lots of balconies and patios overlooking a garden/waterfall area. Has anyone actually stayed there? Would getting a ground level room with a view of the gardens be your choice of rooms?? (don't know the various categories but I think they call this the business room)? How is the location for walking to restaurants etc? Thank you.
Nov 12th, 2006, 07:06 PM
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We stayed there in October 2006 and loved it. I believe the only rooms currently being used are the newer, renovated ones. The older section appears to be closed. We stayed on the 3rd floor looking into the courtyard but we couldn't really see the water and gardens. The hotel was very quiet, had a helpful conceirge who booked a private van for us to the Great Wall. The hotel has about 4 restaurants, but we ate out. Plenty of restaurants nearby and a metro station. It is also one block from the Silk Market where you can do lots of shopping! We'd definitely stay there again.
Nov 15th, 2006, 01:02 AM
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I believe we were in just the basic, standard room. I noticed in the elevators, the 4th floor, was the "Jiangou Club Level". I would guess that is the floor with the more expensive rooms. We had two rooms, one faced into the main courtyard, the other on the opposite side of the hallway face the alley behind the hotel. I paid the same price for both rooms, so you will need to ask for the courtyardv if that's what you want. The room had a mini-bar, tea/coffee and bottled water supplied every day. Everything except the mini-bar was free of charge. I don't know what extras you will get if you pay for the "Club or Executive" level.
Nov 19th, 2006, 02:44 PM
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tourista, you've given good information here and I appreciate your help. I don't think this hotel is in the Wangfujing area that is so commonly recommended for first time visitors but just want to make sure it is walkable to local near by restaurants. Yes?
Nov 21st, 2006, 04:28 AM
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The metro station that is one block to the west of the hotel is Yonganli, to give you a reference point. The first "main" road west of the hotel (basically at the intersection with the metro)and travelling north, I believe is Dongdaqiao Lu. On this street there are many restaurants of various cuisines. At the metro stop itself is a McDonalds and Starbucks. To the east of the hotel is China World business, hotel center and mall. There are many restaurants in the mall. Again, as a reference point, the hotel is probably a 35-40 minute walk from Forbidden City. But as everyone else has mentioned, taxis and the metro are both a convenient and inexpensive way to get around Beijing.
