James Joyce Coffetel (Beijing Mentougou Sports Center Shidan Road)

Not many options for foreigners in the area. We left the holiday inn express because they had a ton of construction and were turning our lights off. So this was one of our only other options. Location was great near subway stations and the bus. The bathroom wasn’t bad but place reeked of smoke. We asked to change room and they gave us a different one that smelled better but when we came back to sleep at night. The place reeked of smoke again. The elevator doesn’t feel the safest but honestly for $30-35 I paid for 1 night to stay here it’s a 10/10 Went back to Beijing 6 days later and stayed at 2 “4 star hotels” for $110 a night and $90/ night and pretty similar just in a more central location In china you can smoke in hotels….. even the places you can’t smoke or you’ll be fined no one cares.

Very, very good.Very, very beautiful.