I really enjoyed my experience there, very good infrastructure and all-around breakfast. Good option for senior executives not travelling with constrained budget (around 1000RMB/night).

Pros: breakfast, cleanliness, infrastructure.
Cons: some real estate projects nearby are somehow annoying.

Hotel is about a 45 min drive away from the airport, but maybe better calculate 60 min, as the traffic is quite bad in Shenyang.

Rooms are well sized, with separate shower and bathtub. However there are not too many places you can leave anything. E.g. in the bathroom there is nearly no available space to put your toothbrush. Same goes for the working desk. If you have a laptop, there is little of no other space free on the desk.

TV has all the usual channels, such as CNN etc, however I did not find DW.

Internet is free of charge and reasonable fast, but nothing exciting, VPN, Skype, FaceTime work well.

Breakfast is good, however other Kempinskis have more.

The heating in the room was unbearable. You cannot really open the window, only a small ventilation duct or so can be opened above the window, but no real air is coming in, only the street noise.

Hotel staff was very apologetic about this and really gave a good service. I think otherwise I would have checked out after just one night. Generally was the staff very friendly and helpful, just the hardware is simply outdated.

Beds for Chinese standards are soft and comfortable. Electric plugs are below the night desk, however difficult to reach. The electric plugs next to the working desk are nearly useless, as they are behind a wooden panel and it is difficult to plug into them.

If there had been no problem with the heating then I would have given a good rating.

The Kempinski hotel is one of the western style 5 star hotels in Shenyang.
They offer nice decorated rooms, friendls and helpfull staff. Also the breakfast is very delicious with a wide selection of chinese and western food. As in all Chinese Kempinski Hotels, there is a German style Paulaner restaurant in the basement.

After travellig in Asia for three weeks, this was my last stop. While the hotel appears on the outside to be a "5 Star" I had the two most miserable nights of my trip. # 1 - if you are North American you'll hate the beds - they are army surplus and hard as a rock (the sheets are great but who cares when the bed is rokc hard). #2 - the heating was on full blast and could not be controlled, hotel staff did not seem to understand that we in North America can control our heat and just told me that now "the heat was on". # 3 my tub would not drain, the toilet would not flush and the bathroom already smells of mould.