World People's Palace Hotel

Rude and impolite staff, outdated room, terrible breakfast, roomview: a wall so zero daylight, not even suitable for plants nor pigs, dangerous showers: impossible to control the heat, smelly carpets, impossible to unload the luggage in front of the door and no help to get them on your room. Extremely hard mattress on a bed which is to small and to small bedware. Rooms getting cold at night. Not worth even two stars

I chose to stay in this hotel not because it is good, but because I must look after a family member who is in a hospital near by. I stayed here in 2008, 2016 and 2017. For 80 US Dollars / night, it is rather expensive for what it has to offer. Hotel is relatively clean, but some rooms smells heavy cigarette, and moldy. Breakfast buffet was good in 2008, but got progressively worse over time. Hotel restaurants are quite expensive. Room service is fast, but sometimes does not resolve problems. It is far from the East District where many tourists live. The hotel is about 10 minutes to the subway by foot, which is great. It has an ATM where you can get cash from an American credit card. It has a swimming pool, and a hair salon. It feels like a 2 - 3 start hotel, but it is listed as 4 star. Overall, it is not bad.

Okay. Staff does not speak English. I booked a room for a family of four, got a business room with a single bed and hooker business cards. I slept on the floor after refusing an "extra bed" that was a wooden board with a folded blanked on it ($50). Subway is 15 minutes walk away (and then highly efficient but that has nothing to do with the hotel). In a word: don't get fooled by the grand building, definitely NOT worth the money!!