Sunworld Dynasty Hotel Beijing Wangfujing

Fabulous location, very comfortable bed, welcoming staff. Ate breakfast one day, was Ok, but not good enough for a second day. Air conditioning was effective in the heat, and having a fridge in the room was a bonus.

Location is perfect, just 2 minutes walk from Wangfujing. Access to the rooms is a bit awkward. From the reception you need to take a long escalator, pass a long hallway before you reach the elevator to the guestrooms. Breakfast was very good.

I stayed at this hotel 3 times over a 5 week trip to China. Its very central and good value as the rooms are decent size and fairly modern. Its a busy hotel though, lots of tour groups and room turn over is really high. The main positives, location, price, size of room, mostly friendly staff, good house keeping and convenience store within the building. On the house keeping they top up your water each day, change towels, make the beds etc. Its a good level of service and the staff are also very polite and happy which is nice to see. BIG shout out to Popeye on concierge and Jack. Both were very helpful and are a credit to the hotel. The staff in the Spa were also very friendly. The main negatives. The door slamming. It did get a bit tiresome after a while. The door closing mechanism is very strong and some guests just fully open the door and then let go... massive bang at 6am. Over and over. There is quite a bit of smoking in the hotel, I get it that its China and smoking is normal there but just be aware. The AC. Its very hit and miss, we had a room where it worked perfectly and then two where it really struggled. Room service. Again hit and miss. We had it a few times and some nights it was really very good, others it was verging on not edible. Its a lottery. Lastly, reception (not Concierge) could be quite difficult to deal with. They would immediately try and slow your roll if there was a problem with the "no understand" or just confused looks. Its a 5 star hotel so English is generally expected to at least a basic level. Anyway - it wasn't a big deal but just worth mentioning as it could be frustrating and I did see a couple of times other people having the same problem. They just want to check you in / out and thats it - which I get. So overall, its decent. I would actually go back without hesitation because of the decent rooms and the location. There are a few niggles, noisy and quality control on the room service is shocking but its China. If it was $300+ a night I would be upset but at sub $150 a night you cant really complain.