Houhaiyuan Hotel (Beijing Gongwangfu Nanluoguxiang Branch)

Hotel is located inside the hutong and walkable to houhai lake. Hotel staffs are friendly and helpful. Mini bar in room are packed with beer, sour plum soup, Coca Cola and water, refillable daily. Coffee machine in room as well. Highly recommended.

Houhaiyuan Hotel situated in the Hutong area, and I absolutely love the surroundings and the view. Everything about this area is just wonderful! The room is clean and well maintained. The location is great—just a 10-minute walk to the Shichahai Subway Station (什剎海地铁站）, a 15-minute walk to Prince Gong Mansion (恭王府）a 15-minute walk to Yandai Diagonal Street (烟袋斜街) and close to Gulou Street (鼓楼大街). The customer service was excellent, with staff who were both helpful and polite. I would definitely love to stay here again. Highly recommended!

This hotel is a gem! WORDS can’t describe how welcome and comfortable the hotel employees made me feel! The hotel is sparkling clean. Super safe, beautiful, in an alley easy to find - the whole area is my favourite part of Beijing ! I truly felt like home!

Very comfortable hotel within 10 minutes to local eateries and underground trains. Hutong touring tricycles offer neat experience however language barrier with tricycle peddler/guide is severe especially due to local accents. Staff at hotel with minimal English. But staff very helpful if you manage to communicate. A British couple in their 60-70’s said Google translate works surprisingly well for their 4 days stay there and said they truly enjoyed their stay there. We’d return if opportunities arise again.

Beautiful hotel in perfect location, quiet but very central. Staff is extremly helpful and kind. Breakfast can be recommended, it’s a mixture between East and West. The rooms are clean. We‘ve already been threre the second time and will definitely stay there again.

Trip.com lists English as spoken at the front desk, but I found no serious attempt to do so. If you invite a friend to your room to drop off a bag during daylight hours, reception goes berserk with Chinese-only phone calls to your room within a minute. I notice that this policy is not stated on Trip.com. Aside from that, the hotel is very pleasant and I have no hesitation to recommend it to travellers with good level of experience. Fresh arrivals to China might like to look elsewhere. I’ll be back.