Red Cross Hotel - Beijing

This hotel is actually run by the Red Cross. The location is excellent, close to a subway station and very near a Starbucks, inexpensive eating options and interesting shops. Very little English spoken. Good sized room. Can be a little hard to find so getting to the nearest subway station and having the hotel name written in Chinese helps.

We were booked here for three days following a Princess cruise. The local agent at the cruise port and the transfer driver had never heard of this hotel which they found with difficulty after phoning. It is in an area which, although not far from the central area, is very poorly lit and likely to be very difficult for all but the most adventurous of foreign travellers. It is set up for Chinese and is not able to provide foreign language staff or food and is in need of cleaning and modernisation,. The local agent was as concerned as we were and stayed with us beyond the call of duty to help us find an alternative. We would have been really stuck if he had not done that because there was nobody around who could have assisted and we had no idea where to go, especially with our cruise luggage. So we did not stay there and have advised the travel agency that it is not really appropriate to allocate cruise travellers to that hotel - our advice is BE CAUTIOUS about this one!