Lake View Hotel

The quality of the hotels facilities & room were phenomenal, if you planned to stay inside the hotel for a holiday, you'd have no issue enjoying yourself, the view from the room was exquisite, and the cleanliness was top notch. Location is very short distance in a taxi to most tourist attractions, and is located in a local residential area with very minimal tourism/tourists. Can get the real cultural experience of Beijing.

Being a western traveller, upon arrival none of the staff spoke English, which made check in extremely difficult, this trend continued on in most aspects of the hotel, the restaurants had similar issues with only one attendant speaking very broken english, several of the attendants would refuse to serve me until their "broken English counterpart" was around, which not only made the experience uncomfortable, but also lengthy. Being a sole traveller, whilst inside the room I always kept the "Do Not Disturb" sign up and on the door, this was ignored several times, by both cleaners & hotel attendants, who during all hours of the day & night would ring the doorbell or knock on the door, to then speak Chinese, and when spoken to in English would just apologize and leave. Again making my experience uncomfortable. The location appears to be a partial residential building for locals, many of which were loud during the day and night, which directly came into the room. This though cant be blamed on the Hotel, but is something to be aware of.

The staff were helpful and they were able to make bookings for me to go to several places including the forbidden city and the great wall.

The toilets had a very weak flush function. Also the closest subway is a little far.