Holiday Inn Express Beijing Yizhuang by IHG

I was there in July for a business trip. Before going, I had ordered items from Taobao and asked to be delivered to the hotel. The hotel staff kept them very nicely for me and nothing was lost or in bad shape. The hotel staff are polite and helpful especially those at the reception counter. The room is clean, modern and new. I love love love the pillow, very fluffy and not flat at all. Very surprising to find this quality here as even some 5-star hotels have really lousy pillow. Breakfast is so-so but this is holiday inn express so you cannot expect a 5-star hotels standard. The only limitation of this hotel I found is that there is no gym floor with shower. I had a red-eye flight to catch and requested to take a shower at the gym floor but the staff told me there is no such facility. Something for people who likes to shower before taking red-eye flight to consider. Overall, highly recommend this hotel especially if you are there for business meeting nearby.

Pros: Many styles of rooms from single queen rooms to 3 room apartments with kitchen and living areas. They can accommodate many people Price is good Excellent breakfast with many western and Asian choices. Washing machines in larger suites Full supply of bottled water and toiletries daily. Wonderful cold air conditioning in the hot humid summers A few channels in English Mall is next door with good grocery store ( 7Fresh) and convent store Our Hours is next door. Subway is just 5 minutes walk - just behind the mall. Comfy beds and good pillows. Cons: Few employees speak English. It is far ( via subway or taxi)to all tourist destinations ie...Great Wall, Summer palace, pearl market, Tienimen Square, forbidden city, stick street, etc..... No refrigerator or washer in regular rooms No coffee or drinks available after breakfast hours. ( instant coffee in rooms) The bathroom leaks MUCH water from shower - but it took us 5 days to realize that bathroom door swings all the way back and then becomes shower doors, also. Government will block gmail, Facebook, and all social media. It isn’t the hotel doing it. You cannot access the internet using google, but try bing as your search engine to at least access the internet. Taxis are very cheap and so is the subway. Get out and explore!,

Choose this a little bit remote Express hotel, suprisely wonderful, 2 bed suite with kitchen, laundry machine, 2 bath and a living room with sofa. Great with party of 4 or 5. great for family. Strongly recommand this hotel.

I stayed here twice in one week in June. This hotel is located in the Yizhuang Economic Zone of Beijing. It is far from the Beijing city center, but there are plenty of amenities near the hotel. The front desk staff were wonderful! Enough English to check-in and inquire about facilities. IHG members recieve a free drink upon arrival. I was given a corner room on the 9th floor with great views of the area. The room, as with the entire hotel, is new an modern. The Wifi, though, will block VPNs. I had ExpressVPN and was not able to access the internet. The TV had Western channels, which was nice. There is a free breakfast buffet in the morning. Mostly Asian offerings, though toast and cereal is available. Beijing metro is about 1/2 mile from hotel. Cut through the plaza to the Yizhuang line. Ride 8 stops to Line 5 and Line 10. About 15 stops total from hotel to Tienanmen Square. Overall, a great stay!

Perfect hotel for business travels in this development zone in Beijing. Ok breakfastis included, fine clean rooms, and a small fitness room is available, restaurants are in walking distance from the hotel.

I stayed at this Holiday Inn Express for 2 weeks in March 2018. The location was chosen because of proximity to my company headquarters. I am American, and my husband traveled with me for the first week. We've traveled pretty extensively, staying everywhere from rustic backcountry camping sites to hostels, airbnbs, hotels all over, and one extremely nice German castle where you had to fax in the reservation. This hotel was in some ways very nice and in some ways worse than a poorly-provisioned backcountry hiking trip. I definitely wouldn't stay here again. It wasn't intolerable, and nothing went terribly wrong, but it certainly could have, and I spent my whole stay struggling to feed myself. I saw a lot less of Beijing than I wanted to see. If I visit again, I'm going to stay in the Salitun neighborhood where there's a lot more to do, easier subway connections, fewer major roads and factories, and a lot of interesting restaurants. The main positives: • Modern hotel, nicely appointed, seems secure • Comfortable beds and pillows • Western style toilets • Superb free breakfast • 7Fresh grocery store and Bank of China (24 hr atm, for all the non-counterfeit cash you'll need) • Taxi drivers had an easy time finding it (pro tip: use the DiDi app, sit in the front seat to buckle up, and get a "premier" car if you want more than 1 seatbelt) • 10-15min walk from nearest subway station, Rongjing East St on the Yizhuang Line (the first of two stops that start with Rongjing.. If you see a Pinyin subway map) • Water is provided with the cleaning service (do NOT drink the tap water in Beijing) Main negatives: • Terrible location for tourists -- the subway system is great, but it is 2-3 connections over 1.5 hrs one-way door-to-door to reach any of the things in your guide book. • Not many restaurants nearby and the roads are pretty dangerous to cross even for an able-bodied sober adult. Plus there's no google maps to help you find restaurants. The hotel isn't any help with it, though maybe they're perfectly helpful if you speak Chinese; I wouldn't know. I wish they had provided a map of nearby locations. Maybe there were spots I missed. • The hotel restaurant charges quite a lot for breakfast and lunch, and these meals aren't nearly as good as the free breakfast. As a side note, Westerners who dislike meat or who (like me) dislike the amount of bones in Chinese meats will not find many options at the 88 yuan hotel dinner. (Protip: turn left and walk down a block to find PopMeal where a decent Western-style burger & fries can be had for 23 yuan). • No fridge or microwave in the room. For me, that meant when I bought food at 7Fresh, I could only get shelf-stable items, and as the weather warmed, fresh fruit and bread would go bad pretty quickly. So I'd get home after a long day and have to decide between an overpriced, subpar hotel dinner; a burger at PopMeal; crossing a few scary intersections to find another meal; taking a long train ride into town to find something or see something; or eating overripe whatever-food-I-carried-home-from-7fresh. 7fresh didn't have a big selection of self stable items, sadly. • The combination of few restaurants, kind of awful hotel restaurant after 10am, and no ability to keep food fresh meant I was pretty much constantly struggling to feed myself, which was a daily issue. I'm not proud of how much Nutella and potato chips I ended up eating. If I had to stay here again, I'd probably bring MRSEs like the kind you take backpacking because there is a kettle and you can "steal" bowls from the breakfast area. Bring baby-wipes, too, to clean the dishes since the water is contaminated. • The shower pours water all over the bathroom floor unless you arrange the curtain just-so and use the shower just-so. The floor is hard stone tile and when it is wet, it really is hazardous. There aren't any grab bars, and it's a big step down from the tub. It took us 3 days to figure out how to shower without creating a huge dangerous mess. I would NOT want to stay here if I had children or weak joints or poor balance or whatever -- you'd definitely twist an ankle and/or hit your head on some stone surface, get a concussion, and need stitches (and have to figure out how to get medical care when you don't speak the language). • AND the hotel wifi blocked the two most popular VPNs so good luck watching YouTube when the hotel TV can't get English-language channels (which it couldn't for my entire stay), uploading photos to Facebook, checking your Gmail account, or using Google to find restaurants. Funnily enough, TheOnion.com loaded quickly every time. I appreciated the subtle absurdity of that. Seriously though, the "Great Firewall of China" is no joke, and if you stay at this hotel, you'll be dealing with it. I'm a very tech savvy person and ran through all the low-level debug, still couldn't get the VPNs to work…. Weirdly the VPN worked for the first few days, which is why I think the hotel was actively blocking it. Buy yourself a generous international data plan so you can hot-spot. Neutral, but some people won't like: • Air quality is terrible so you can't open the windows. There are smoke stacks and factories within line of sight (except the days PM10 > 150 then visibility drops a LOT). Other neighborhoods had better air even on the bad days (and most days were bad) • There is no A/C, only heat (my husband confirmed that with the front desk) so the room got warm and stuffy even in March • People are definitely smoking, possibly in the stairwells? The fine for smoking is only $60 and lots of people in China smoke so I'm not at all surprised. Technically the hotel is non smoking but if you're irritated by smoke smells this place will irritate you • There is a laundromat on floor 3, but it is expensive -- the "tokens" from the front desk cost 14 yuan EACH and it took 4 to do a single moderate size load -- 1 for the washer, 3 for the terrible driers running on "high". One guy was drying all his stuff on the communal (?) drying rack, and I can't blame him. It was honestly worse than the laundromat we used in college, and I didn't think that was possible. On the plus side, seems like theft isn't an issue • No coffee in the room. Just saying, it made my life suck a little extra. The "free coffee" machine on the 3rd floor was broken. I'm sorry to keep complaining about the food -- it just felt so much like the hotel was trying to coerce me into buying their meals, but the meals they were selling kind of sucked. • Walls are on the thin side. A couple with an infant moved in next door my last week, and their poor baby had jet lag, and I heard all the crying. Luckily I had a corner room so only one neighbor. I didn't hear any "adult" activities, so that was good, but that might have been different if the couple next door didn't have an infant. Pros and cons, right?