Beijing Homekey Hotel

My friend and I stayed here as the location is where we wanted to be. As we booked quite late the prices for hotels were high. We decided to book this hotel as we wanted to be near all the activities. We had booked a previous place that was clearly a budget hotel and it was old and the beds were hard but everything was clean. This hotel was dirty and needed a whole refurbishment as it was rusty and dusty and I found a cockroach walking across our bedroom floor. I would recommend any other budget hotel apart from this one as this has to be the worst one I have stay in so far. For your own sanity, there are cheap places near here that I’m sure are a lot cleaner than here.

I stayed at the Homekey Hotel for a month. They changed my sheets once. That should really say all that it needs to. The location is great, if you can deal with the crowded hellhole that is Nanluoguxiang. Having said that, it's not too far from any of the main attractions in Beijing, and if you only treat this area as a bolt hole, it will do the job. Reasonably priced, just don't stay too long.

First of all, the hotel is currently called "Beijing Homekey Hotel". I've booked it because it was cheap (228cny per night). The building is hidden inside narrow alleyways (hutongs) and it's at least 15 min away from the nearby subway station (Nanluoguxiang). The receptionist didn't speak English, but she was very skilled at using Google Translate to communicate with guests. The room's interior is old and walls near the bathroom were cracked, but bedsheets were clean. There was a CRT TV in the room, so at least that's something! Heating was also a problem (I stayed in January while it was -10 C outside, but the room didn't seem to have a radiator, only a conditioner. I spent about half an hour trying to set the conditioner to heating mode (all buttons were in Chinese). Eventually I did, but it only helped a little with heating and it added a constant draft around the room. And it didn't help that there was a hole in the wall where the aircon's pipes were going outside. Now, I don't know why a lot of reviewers complain about all of Beijing hotels' bed mattresses being too hard, to me it was as soft as any other bed I've been on.