The first impressions weren’t brilliant. We arrived on a Saturday night. After getting off the taxi, we walked almost 500m (with luggage) before we found the place. The advertised address wasn't really helpful for taxi. Later we realised that using the name of the shopping centre QiMeng shares the building with was a much better alternative for calling taxis. The hotel doesn't have an entrance, nor a proper reception desk, of its own. Seems to me they hire a couple of floors from the other hotel (with which it shares the entrance and lifts) and block manage them under the QiMeng brand. The toilet/shower room is terribly small (but usable). Internet is unstable and hard to connect, unless you piggyback adjacent data points (the hotel staff provided the passwords for them). Otherwise, everything is fine: the room is clean and modern, the staff are friendly and helpful, and the hotel appears popular with foreign passport holders (I saw several foreign looking faces every day). QiMeng doesn't offer breakfast, but there are breakfast shops just two blocks away (by the nearest underground station). The shopping centre has lots of restaurants occupying a whole floor, but only go alive after breakfast time. One evening, I even saw 20-30 out-door food stalls open around the shopping centre (I thought they were banned in Beijing a long time ago). Overall, it was a positive experience. If you ask me if I would stay with the hotel again, the answer would be Yes!
