THE L.A.HOTEL

If you don't know Chinese don't come to this hotel! Nobody, and I mean nobody, speaks english. It's so hard to get anything across, a very frustrating experience. The restaurant is pretty bad too. Elevators take forever. The only good thing about this hotel is it has a very cute robot wondering around the hallway and getting on the elevator. Also the babe of this hotel recently changed and is now called The L.A. Hotel.

Good hotel in residential area. The hotel itself is a converted residential building and is with a residential complex. Short walk to the metro, and shops and restaurants are all at hand. Many others have commented about the lifts, they are slow and small. Very comfortable rooms with sitting area. Some western Channels, HBO CNN Discovery. Wifi is poor.

As previous reviewers have suggested this is located within an apartment complex and is a converted apartment block. This means you have 2 lifts for the hotel - services included. This means you could be waiting a while as they load laundry on at each floor. Rooms are more than spacious. They are well kitted out, wifi works well when you connect but every time you phone/tablet sleeps you lose the connection and have to reconnect. Painful and I hope it is sorted out. Bathroom is nice with a nice bath and shower and the room was always kept clean. My room had a balcony overlooking the other apartments which offers an interesting "peak" into the homes lives of the local people (think Rear Window!). The staff are courteous but do not speak English well at all. This didn't bother me as I have some limited knowledge of Mandarin now and also rely on google translate, plus one of our colleagues came along to help when necessary (checking in for example). They do not take AMEX which is annoying as that's the corporate card. The bed is hard, which I quite like, and the pillows soft. All linen was nice and clean. For me the best thing was the darkness of the room. So many hotels I stay in make it like a disco at night with flashing firelights, nightlights to the bathroom, LED's on TV's and DVD's and goodness knows what else. I find this so irritating that I travel with electrical tape to cover them up (seriously! I need darkness to sleep, or stay asleep!). This place didn't need it, it's dark, it's great. Based on that reason I will probably stay here again, although I do miss my creature comforts of a Western brand hotel with the extras and exec lounge...