Homekey Hotel

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• northmcqueen

  16 septiembre 2014
  Cheap hotel, but wouldn't recommend

  We arrived at the hotel late in the evening, and were dropped off on the main road, as the taxis cannot get down to the hotel which is in a back alley. For a while we genuinely thought we had been dropped off in the red light district. But actually, as we went a little further in, we realized it was actually just one of the popular shopping/food streets in Beijing, Nanluoguxiang. The hotel itself is old looking, and you sort of feel like you've stepped back into the 1970s. Our room was big, but again old looking. The windows were very marked and shabby. The bathroom was a wet room. The first time I took a shower, a tile fell out of the ceiling right over my head, and the plug didn't drain, so there was water all over the bathroom and seeping out into the bedroom, before we unclogged the plughole, which was full of other people's hair. Nice one. The toilet also stopped flushing on several occasions, and we had to keep taking the lid off the tank and turning the stop tap back on. The room was not cleaned, towels etc not changed the whole time we were there. Toilet roll in short supply. There is wifi in the hotel, but the connection is poor and only works intermittently. It is noisy at night. This is partly because it is right next to the busy shopping street. However, there were also numerous chinese guests on the corridor shouting to each other at stupid hours of the night, as well as weird karaoke sessions going on in the next room. Glad I took my ear plugs. The location of the hotel is convenient for getting around, the subway is a 2 minute walk, and it isn't far from the main attractions, such as Tianamen Square, Forbidden City, Summer Palace, Wangfuing, Lama Temple and Temple of Heaven. The hotel also had a service to book us onto a tour to see the Great Wall, which was very reasonably priced at only 260 yuan each (about 26 GBP). The man on the desk, presumably the owner or manager, speaks very good English and was very helpful. He also helped us to hail a taxi on the last night as we had to get to the airport in the middle of the night. There are other staff(?) on the desk who all seem to be women, none of them appear to have a clue what is going on,and don't speak English so just seem to stare at you instead. Not sure what purpose they served. Overall, you get what you pay for here. It was very cheap, but a very strange experience. Wouldn't really recommend. It seems to be more popular with the natives, who like a good all night karaoke session and screaming at each other on the corridor..

  

• DavidTempleman

  12 marzo 2016
  Worth the price I guess

  First of all, the hotel is currently called "Beijing Homekey Hotel". I've booked it because it was cheap (228cny per night). The building is hidden inside narrow alleyways (hutongs) and it's at least 15 min away from the nearby subway station (Nanluoguxiang). The receptionist didn't speak English, but she was very skilled at using Google Translate to communicate with guests. The room's interior is old and walls near the bathroom were cracked, but bedsheets were clean. There was a CRT TV in the room, so at least that's something! Heating was also a problem (I stayed in January while it was -10 C outside, but the room didn't seem to have a radiator, only a conditioner. I spent about half an hour trying to set the conditioner to heating mode (all buttons were in Chinese). Eventually I did, but it only helped a little with heating and it added a constant draft around the room. And it didn't help that there was a hole in the wall where the aircon's pipes were going outside. Now, I don't know why a lot of reviewers complain about all of Beijing hotels' bed mattresses being too hard, to me it was as soft as any other bed I've been on.

  

• AgustinSimonit

  18 julio 2017
  Solo rescato la ubicacion.

  Por empezar, el hotel actualmente se llama: Beijing Homekey Hotel. Las habitaciones se ajustan al precio que uno paga por el hotel, confortables, no modernas pero limpias. El personal es bastante limitado, habla nada de ingles, lo que dificulta bastante la comunicación y el trato se vuelo mas impersonal todavía. Es algo a tener en cuenta, ya que si inicias tu viaje por Beijing, vas a necesitar un poco de orientación y consejos, y el hotel no puede brindártelos ya que no hay comunicación posible. No ofrecía la opción desayuno, aun así no es indispensable, ya que en el Hutong en el que se encuentra, podes desayunar en cualquier barsito. Lo que le suma muchos puntos a este Hotel, es su ubicación. Esta ubicado en un HUTONG, dato no menor, ya que esto significa un barrio de los mas antiguos de Beijing. Es una buena opción para aquellos que gustamos de vivir en una parte de la ciudad que no sea un simple recreación para el turista y nos acerca a la vida real en la capital China. Esta relativamente cerca de la ciudad prohibida. Por la noche, a dos cuadras del Hotel, podemos salir a pasear y comer en la calle Luogu Alley, que es una callecita sumamente iluminada y con mucha vida, dentro del Hutong. Aun asi, en la misma zona, hay varios hoteles/hostels, por lo que recomiendo vean otras posibilidades. Para cerrar el comentario, les recomiendo que chequeen el tema de alojarse en un Hutong. En mi caso personal lo encontre sumamente original y valioso, pero no a todos les gusta alojarse en estos barrios tan particulares.

  

• darbz89

  04 noviembre 2017
  Long stay, felt longer

  I stayed at the Homekey Hotel for a month. They changed my sheets once. That should really say all that it needs to. The location is great, if you can deal with the crowded hellhole that is Nanluoguxiang. Having said that, it's not too far from any of the main attractions in Beijing, and if you only treat this area as a bolt hole, it will do the job. Reasonably priced, just don't stay too long.

  

• elaine_travelling

  07 abril 2019
  Disgusting

  My friend and I stayed here as the location is where we wanted to be. As we booked quite late the prices for hotels were high. We decided to book this hotel as we wanted to be near all the activities. We had booked a previous place that was clearly a budget hotel and it was old and the beds were hard but everything was clean. This hotel was dirty and needed a whole refurbishment as it was rusty and dusty and I found a cockroach walking across our bedroom floor. I would recommend any other budget hotel apart from this one as this has to be the worst one I have stay in so far. For your own sanity, there are cheap places near here that Im sure are a lot cleaner than here.