I stayed for an international conference. The hotel room was in block 16 where also the conference took place. Room was very nice and comfortable.. (has a Chinese bed, which is harder than what Westerns are used to but still very good). Did have free internet via cable (plugged the cable from the room pc into my labtop), connection worked but was slow.
Hotel is massive. Has a fitness and pool area but both are only accessable after a substantial entrance fee.
My accompaning person took the local bus from the main entrance and then the metro to go to downtown Beijing. The price for the trip was next to nothing but it did take around an hour and buses did not go frequently after 6pm.
For a conference, I found the hotel really nice. If you intend to just visit Beijing do consider taking a hotel nearer town.

Really bad location, very hard to get to Beijing (and particularly to get back at night), suitable only for closed meetings at location. Closer to the Great Wall, though.

Restaurants at location were frequently overbooked and we had to live on terrible dry food from the overpriced "supermarket".

Rooms are ok, but buildings are oversized communist cold war monsters. Place has no charm whatsoever.
Staff is polite and helpful, but speaks no English.

There are so many wrongs with this hotel, I don't even know where to start...

I was there because of a 5 days conference. I took a taxi from Beijing International airport and the driver couldn't make sense of the map I printed from the hotel's website. It took us 1hour and 20 min to get there. The Hotel is SO in the middle of NOWHERE that I almost started to cry thinking I was being kidnapped or something. Awful and I wouldn't recommend it to any woman traveling alone. You are so vulnerable! (no speaking Chinese, not able to read the road signs, valuables in your baggage, in the middle of Chinese nowhere).

When I finally arrived, they sent me to my "district" which was #15, but I had to pass first through the #16 where the reception is located. I took the monorail (first I had to carry my big bag 3 floors up-no elevator) and the monorail that connects every building was so small, slow, old, smelly and rundown that I thought I was on candid camera and that this was a joke from my colleagues.

The receptionist took at least 12 minutes to check me in and didn't understand the phrase "internet connection". After seen how bad district 16 was (meant to be "the best"), I didn't wanted to see the cheaper district 15.

The room was VERY rundown, the whole hotel seems to have had its good years but that must have been a long time ago, at least a 100. The staff at the main restaurant didn't understand the word "Coca Cola", little selection for vegetarians like me. The staff tries to do a good job but things have got very wrong in the hotel, from prostitute cards slipped at your door every afternoon, brown water pool, to massive dimensions that sometimes you are absolutely alone in a dark floor with 200 room around you.

At the end, I had to leave the conference just due to the hotel. I didn't feel safe much less happy. In conclusion, I wouldn't recommend this hotel to anyone, not even my worst enemies.

This is one among many such units to the north of Beijing, about 45-60 minutes from both Beijing city and the airport. It is divided into several zones and has a monorail connecting the different buildings. One is completely dependent on what the place and people have to offer unless one is willing to make a taxi/bus trip to Beijing for every need.

Almost none of the staff understands or speaks English except a few words such as tea/coffee and Thank you. The sincereity of most of the staff to genuinely make an effort to help is clear, but mostly it takes so much time and effort that even a simple affair of requesting room service is best avoided. Food is entirely Chinese with very little consideration for anyone with special needs, except Muslims. Vegetarians, persons with vegan diets or allergies had best carry their own food in, inlcuding tea and coffee sachets. Ventilation is poor in rooms, whatever the type, in the entire place and air-conditioning can break down. Sound passes easily within the walls.

Prostitution ad cards are slipped under the door regularly. Even if the management is not doing this themselves, it cannot be that they do not know about it.

The list of dismerits is too long and of merits, too short to list.

Just avoid is the best advice possible, under its current conditions.