Not yet discovered by the travelling hordes, Hotel G, 5 minutes walk away from the bright lights and bars of Sanlitun, opened just after the Olympics and is a stylish and extremely well-priced Beijing bolthole.
Tucked behind the city's best known gay club, Destination, but not within earshot of the disco beats, the exterior looks best at night when the façade is lit up with an array of coloured lights. The reception area is a shade too moodily lit for it's own good, but persevere as the actual rooms are Beijing's biggest bargains – sleek and sexy is the theme du jour.
Happily, some of the best rooms are actually the cheapest – the 110 bedrooms are divvied up as good, great, greater or greatest, and the good rooms (from 1088RMB) have glamorous velvet drapes, darkly coloured 60s retro chic furniture and bathrooms complete with rainforest showers and L'Occitane toiletries.
In fact, everything about Hotel G combines to encourage you to stay in and skip the sights: from the complimentary entertainment options (iPod docks, DVD players, Nintendo Wii, free WiFi) to the two in-house restaurants, Beijing's best burger joint 25 Degrees (sister restaurant to the famed Hollywood version) and funky fine dining Japanese eatery Morio.
The staff speak great English and will arm you with Chinese addresses and maps should, for some reason, you happen to wish to venture outside.
Hotel G Beijing: 7 Gongtixilu, Chao yang District, Beijing, China; Phone: +86 (0)10 65523600; Fax: +86 (0)10 65523606; www.hotel-g.com.
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Awesome. Wish I had known about this place a couple of weeks ago as we were desperate to find somewhere like that.
This looks like a very interesting hotel.
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