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Reviews of Beijing Yanshan Hotel

4.5 out of 5
Beijing Yanshan Hotel
No.38A Zhongguancun Street, Haidian District, Beijing, Beijing

Reviews

7.4

Good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 34 out of 189 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 93 out of 189 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 42 out of 189 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 13 out of 189 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 7 out of 189 reviews" "

7.6/10

Cleanliness

7.8/10

Staff & service

8.0/10

Amenities

7.0/10

Property conditions & facilities

10/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great hotel-fantastic location, close to Renmin university, the subway and shops, including a supermarket. Friendly staff and great service. Very comfy bed.
Stayed 6 nights in Nov 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Very happy stay in this hotel! Convenient location staff are very nice. Well back again.
Stayed 5 nights in Oct 2019

10/10 Excellent

Yan

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
very good
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
The pillows were the most comfortable I have ever slept on, in a hotel or otherwise. and I am hard to please when it comes to pillows. I should have asked them where they got them from. The location of the hotel was great because it was very near where we had to be for work. Would stay here again without hesitation.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Traveled with family and small children
Liked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Conveniently located, close to all amenities and Beijing university.
Stayed 13 nights in Apr 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Love the location, and service. The bed and bedding are super comfortable
Stayed 4 nights in Mar 2019

8/10 Good

Carina

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Breakfast Buffet
Having the cheapest option did not include breakfast. Their buffet was a little lacking for the price and confusing about where to pay. Otherwise no complaints.
Stayed 4 nights in Feb 2019

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveler

Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2018

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2018

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 4 nights in Oct 2018

8/10 Good

Larry, San Jose, CA

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Clean hotel room, somewhat well maintained. No smoking room but people still smoke in the hall way. Building B is old and needs to refresh soon. I had a chance to visit Building A and definitely much nicer and modern. So make sure you book rooms in building A. Staff are professional and their English his decent.
Stayed 5 nights in Oct 2018

8/10 Good

tia, dunedin fl

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Disliked: Staff & service
i have been saying at yanshan hotel every year since 2012 for my annual family visit. top reason has always been its location as zhongguancun, despite being the "brain center" of china, is not set up for visitors. yanshan always served its practical purpose with comfy bed and functional shower. but over the years, they have been upgrading their rooms.we were there in jan and again last two weeks.we were pleasantly surprised that our room in B building now has new bright furniture and a flat screen TV it made room so much better. i cannot comment on their main building as it is always dated and uncomfortable - e.g. a/c in that building is your typical hotel built in type that simply does not work when old.its rooms are always dark and smaller than ones in building b which was built in apartment style for extended stay. i encourage the management to continue to improve the facilty - it does not need to cost much. simple IKEA furniture made this recent stay much better.! however, i think their real challenge is still staffing.their concierge service continues to be joke (it varies depending on who is working but on average the guy just goes not want to work) how do you have a sigh of "taxi service" when you cannot reserve ANY car service to the airport? and receptionists still do not speak a word of english and almost never greets anyone or acknowledges the fact we have been coming for years and were just there 8 mos ago.
Stayed 4 nights in Sep 2018

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Yanshan Hotel is nowhere near any beach.
All in all, very nice. My suite was extremely comfortable. No inexpensive restaurant in hotel but basement of next-door "Mall"(department store) had a good grocery store, and a wonderfujl bakery (Holiland) was also nearby. Hotell desk would only change crisp and new dollar bills into RMB, so one shouldn't take wornout US dollar bills. Nearby bank had cash dispenser with debit or creditd crds, so one shoiuld be sure to have their passwords.
Stayed 15 nights in Jun 2018

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice short stay in Zhongguanchun!
It is located in Zhongguanchun area. Walking distance to subways, which is very convenient. A nice shopping mall is close, in which you can find some good foods.
Stayed 1 night in May 2018

8/10 Good

mufer, Heckington , UK

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Nice hotel in Haidian district..
Nice location, comfortable room , friendly staff.. Toilet rather small, low flushing water pressure, toilet became blocked once. They provide only one small toilet paper roll per person / day .Very good Wifi signal but not satellite TV , other than CNN ( which itself is difficult to find ) , no other international TV channel available . With access to google block in China, difficult to get international news.
Stayed 14 nights in Mar 2018

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness
Convenient and reasonable hotel for long term stay
Chinese restaurant in second floor is relatively cheap and food good. However, breakfast is overpriced compared to the quality. Shopping center next to the hotel is not that good but subway connection near by can take you anywhere.

8/10 Good

Peiyu

Just what's next ended plus a little more
Generally useful for my business travel. Affordable rates for its location

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Hotel is near amenities. Staff is very helpful. Neighbourhood is safe.

10/10 Excellent

CONGCONG

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good for business
Good location, worth the price.
Response from General Manager on Aug 24, 2016
Thank you for your comments, welcome you again!

8/10 Good

dan

Liked: Staff & service

6/10 Okay

Yi G.

Liked: Staff & service
Hotel needs renovation
The hotel was one of the few 3 or 4 star hotels in Beijing back in the 1980s, but has since lost its appeal as the management neglected maintenance in the last decade or two. It is now just one of those budget hotels: dirty and wore out carpets, old toilets, and noisy and and hardly working air conditioners. The location is good, though.

6/10 Okay

Anonymous, China

Overall pleasing experience. Since it is an apartment, not stellar but provides all basic needs - no frills. Clean and tidy. A/C sometimes not working properly, however. Convenient - next to shopping mall and subway station. Time to airport takes about 50 minute, 130 RMB.

8/10 Good

Xiaodong

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

4/10 Poor

Verified traveler

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Yanshan hotel in Beijing
bath room not clean, carpet dirty, old style TV

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great hotel and everything
My whole family stayed at the apartment building, we really enjoyed the stay. Would definitely stay stay in the future. Highly recommended!

6/10 Okay

Russell, New Zealand

Liked: Staff & service, room comfort
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Yanshan Apartments
A bit disappointed with the apartment in terms of cleanliness, walked around the room barefoot for about half an hour and afterwards my feet were black, not exaggerating, they were black. There was no in-room information about the hotel or apartments so difficult to know what facilities were available. Also, although there is a kettle and mugs in the room there is no complimentary tea or coffee, so make sure to get your own. The staff at the front desk were super friendly and helpful especially in terms of sorting taxis etc.

8/10 Good

Ronald, Singapore

Liked: Staff & service
Good service from staff.
The hotel staff are friendly, reception and service desks personnel. The apartment rooms we stayed are quite old, but clean room though. Plus point is the room size is extremely huge. Be careful that the bathrooms are non sound proof, I can clearly hear my neighbours talking.

8/10 Good

Dieter, Winnipeg, MB

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
My stay at the Yanshan
Overall, was a good experience. The location is good - near subway, university and in the Haidian district where many technology companies and institutes are located. There are many restaurants nearby as an option to the typically high priced hotel restaurant. The street in front of the hotel is one-way, so a bit of a challenge for taxis, but the rooms are quiet without the sound of traffic. Upon exit, go left down the street a bit and there's a lady who has a shop that sells fresh fruit - really handy! The AC runs well, but I wonder if it is turned down a bit at night since the room seemed a but warm. Internet is broadband to "Network 10" and worked well, and there's WiFi but disappears a bit when there's lots of guests. Overall, good value for the money. I did not stay in the apartments, which I hear are lesser quality, but in the newer building in the deluxe rooms, and a few times in the standard rooms. From Beijing Capital Airport, about 130 RMB by taxi, 1 hour at best.

6/10 Okay

pH, Edmonton, Calgary, Kamloops

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Good value
The rate was hard to improve upon and was an excellent value, so I hesitate to be critical. However, two things caused me to remember on a daily basis that I was getting a good deal. One was the insistent, but generally unwarm water temperature. Showers were rarely hot. The second was the sound proofing. I didn't need an alarm for the mornings as the door between the room and the corridor blocked none of the sounds. In fact, I wondered if it amplified the sounds, sometimes. Staff was great, the room comfortable (chilly at night) and I'd stay again. This was my third stay there, and this time it was for a month. I had one of the apartment rooms.

4/10 Poor

Choo An

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Poor design
We stayed at the apartment building,the room are ok. since we only need place to sleep and shower. the staff are friendly since I speak Mandarin.But the bath room need improve a lot. It's narow long, when you open the door ,it's the shower head then it's the hand basen. toliet is in the back. there is no room for shower curtien or screen. so when ever one of us have a shower, water is everywhere. the bathroom be come a dangers place.it's 4 star hotel,but it's not even 3 star.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service

8/10 Good

L C, Waterford, Ireland

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Close to Remnin University
Very friendly staff.

6/10 Okay

Shifu

Disliked: Room comfort
The room is very outdated.
It is not like a 4-star hotel. The room is very outdated.

8/10 Good

TravelFun

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Good Location for a visitor
The hotel is close to the subway and this is its main advantage. Nevertheless, besides the regular hotel rooms it has appartments, which are quite old and not as confortable.

8/10 Good

Cara, Colchester, UK

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Just what we needed
We were visiting Renmin University and the hotel was less than 5 minutes walk away. The hotel was clean and although the room had a slight smoke smell at first it did not linger. The staff spoke enough English to help us get around and answer our questions. The hotel is also quite close to one of the subway lines so getting to the more touristy parts of the city was quite easy. One of the drawbacks is that the room was quite hot and we were visiting in October! We were able to sleep with the window open and that helped, but there did not appear to be any air conditioning.

2/10 Terrible

Yvon, Singapore

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Worst hotel ever stayed.
This hotel is terrribly maintained and the service was terrible too. I arrived at the hotel at 2:00 pm and asked to check in. However, the reception just told me that the room was not ready, I had to wait. I waited for about 45 minutes before I could be checked in. I was wondering why I could not check in according to the time 2 pm specified in the booking? The room key is another problem. I had to reactivate it at the reception every time I got back to the room. And the air conditioner.... The temperature drops to 4 degree at night in Beijing. But the remote of the air con was missing in my room, I asked the recepetion about this problem, their answer was "we could not find it either..." So i had to wrap myself tightly with the blanket to ward off the cold temperature at night....

6/10 Okay

Verified traveler

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
OK if you are not picky
The room is big enough; however, the bathroom is too small and messes after taking a shower.

8/10 Good

C, Tianjin, China

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Good value, close to metro station
Hotel staff were polite and helpful. Most of them spoke a little English and we didn't have problems communicating anything. They had an English speaking concierge that helped with directions and writing them in Chinese as needed for us. We showed up at night after dark with no real idea where the hotel was in relation to the metro station, went out exit A2, but were quickly relieved when we could see it above the other buildings easily. It was about a short 5 minute walk from the metro Remin University. The hotel downstairs is really nice and clean. Our room was clean but the AC didn't work so thats why our rating isn't 5 stars. We would stay again. Breakfast was not included, and we didn't try it. Ended up getting food (sandwiches and coffee) from the bakery around the corner.

6/10 Okay

Short Visitor

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Very good location
Got to this place from airport just by subway. You have almost everything needed nearby. Room is spacious, but sound-proof is poor - woke up twice in the night by noisy neighboors. Staff is friendly and helpful.

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

10/10 Excellent

Jian, San Romon, CA

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great location
Good facilities, clean room, restaurant, very nice hotel staff. every things are great except shower without curtain, making bathroom wet. Definitely, I would choose it again if I will stay that area.

4/10 Poor

Am -,Chinese Traveller, NYC

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Not up to Western Expectations.
Courtesy of staff, particularly Reception, Doorman, Bellhop and housekeeping are exemplary but the spacious apartment has seen better days, no shower stall nor curtains so water inundates the entire bathroom and buckled the floor outside bathroom.! No in-room wifi. Clean linens, typical extra firm Chinese bed and convenience of #4 Metro line may be sufficient for value conscious travelers.

8/10 Good

Audrey, Kampala

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great location for university
We stayed here in the apartments on our first trip to china. The reception staff are helpful and go to lengths to try and figure out where on earth it is we were trying to visit - if you speak no or little Chinese, you need your destinations written in Chinese for taxi drivers. This worked a treat most of the time, until we tried to get to the red theatre to see the Kung fu show and ended up at the Beijing Opera (which was vastly over priced and very very very dull). The room was clean and has a useful fridge large enough to store cartons of drinks, fruits etc. I loved the location as it was very close to the tube station, close to a busy shopping area ( with fast food and other restaurants) and across the road from Renmin University. Security was good and we felt very safe there. Enjoyed the stay and would stay again.

6/10 Okay

QQ

Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities

6/10 Okay

Darmawans, New Zealand

Liked: Staff & service
Good Service at reasonable price
Value for money to those looking for budget hotel, close to subway (5 mins walking).

6/10 Okay

Shi, Denmark

okay hotel
okay hotel for business trip

6/10 Okay

J, Philadelphia

Fine for modest price but showing its age
Yanshan is one of the oldest "international" hotels in Beijing--dating to the 1980s, and it shows. Perfectly fine but in need of a facelift and has some old-style Chinese hotel traits (for example, pretty much nothing in the way of a no-smoking policy). Staff is fine but far from friendly / attentive / highly professional. Location is excellent if you need to be in Haidian / near the universities. Very close to subway station on one of the more useful lines. For a modest rate, not a bad deal for increasingly pricey Beijing. And for anyone who was a student here back in the day, it's nostalgic

8/10 Good

Daniel, Beijing

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Yanshan CCPR
More positive than I expected after all after reading some of the reviews. As a matter of fact, very positive.

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stay at Yanshan
I've stayed at Yanshan a couple of times before. Only problem this time was that I booked on hotels.com, but they put me in the east building, behind the main building with the lobby, and the rooms are not as nice and don't have a real shower. Just wish this distinction was made clear on hotels.com during the reservation.