Manhattan Hotel

The location is amazing and can not be beaten in Harbin, the views of Sophia Church from the hotel are equally as impressive. These are the only good things about this hotel. The room we were in absolutely stank of sewerage/plumbing as it had an open bathroom design. The smell was from the toilet and was terrible but the front desk staff barely spoke English so didn’t bother requesting to change rooms as we were only staying for two nights. We paid a lot (over $200 usd per night) to stay at the hotel and the bed was not even made properly on the second night, photo taken is of the ‘bed made’ when we came back from a full day of sight seeing. The breakfast was equally as poor, there weren’t enough tables for guests and the food while very clearly focussed on the majority Russian clientele was just inedible for the most part. We ended up leaving and finding breakfast options out of the hotel (in -20 degree weather) rather than staying and trying to politely endure the food options. We didn’t even bother going down for breakfast our 2nd morning. The hotel is the epitome of a once grand Soviet hotel that’s simply not been maintained at all. There are fire extinguishers by the walls on every floor as if they’re expecting the hotel to go up in a whoosh of fire. Location is amazing but I’d stay further out than staying at this dump again.

Good location for shopping and travel around

Strategic location. Near restaurant, shops and attraction but the not really clean. Big room and good view, good breakfast too