Urcove By Hyatt Beijing Forbidden City

Recent Reviews: 334

• User:jheredia3

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  Read before you book

  19 Dec 2019

  The hotel preserves the attentions that western hotels used to have. The size of the room is great, it is bigger than normal western rooms by far, for Chinese standards is huge. I liked a lot, but there are few thinks that you might know before booking. First the mattress, it is very hard, as soon as we lay down to watch some television, we felt it. I use firm matters at home, and I was worried that we would not rest property with this hard mattress, but that was not the case; we woke up rested. The only think that woke me up during the night was the heat. We were there during early December and they set the temperature at 20 degrees Celsius which is room temperate (68 F) but the room was clearly hotter than that, I had to turn it off because the AC did not work (they probably use a central unit for heat or AC and switch it per seasons). The offer all the toilets that you no longer find the American continent. There is also two 500ml bottles of water for free, and one 1L for sale. Use the ones for free for tea or coffee. They have condoms, compresses towel, and something else I do not remember for sell at inside the toilet. They storage our bags the last day for free. The hotel is walking distance to Forbidden City, Wangfujing street, and metro line 1, Wangfujing Station.

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• User:celadeira

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  Good Location, Fair Service

  23 Nov 2019

  The location was very good. It is near the subway station (12 min walk). Main business street and large mall are walking distance. This includes Mcdonalds and KFC. Western food at times is nice, it is sometimes difficulty to find western food in China. You can walk to the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square from hotel ( about 15 min). Take your passport with you, they may ask for ID near Tiananmen square. A few staff members speak broken English. They are not warm like the staff members in the interior of China.I recommend because of the location.

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• User:felcaz5

  Trip type: Couples

  Great location and value for money

  25 Apr 2019

  A great option very near tiananmen square. Beautiful building, affordable and also very nice service from the friendly staff(although their English is not very clear to be honest). It offers great value for your money

• User:pchi94

  Trip type: Business

  Unfriedly staff, noisy, central location

  17 Apr 2019

  This hotel is near Tiananmen and the Imperial Palace. The sector is also knwon for the commercial malls, hotels and luxury shops.The problems are that the staff is not friendly and not helpful (don't expect then to understand a word of english, even if you say "no" when they want to enter and clean your room while you're sleeping).The hotel is also noisy, due to the clients, the poor construction and the perpetual renovation works.The breakfast is quite poor and only served between 7:00 and 9:30. After 9:00, there is often no coffee left, and the staff will not propose to make more.Caution: some rooms don't have any window !

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• User:andrewrD5516QE

  Trip type: Family

  Great location - not so great hotel

  15 Apr 2019

  The location of this hotel is perfect, situated between the forbidden city and Wangfujing both in easy walking distance (about 10 mins).The hotel was also cheap.We booked 2 rooms for 2 nights and in fairness the details said the view was limited. It turns out this was the understatement of the year - the view was a concrete wall on the other side of a void in the middle of the hotel, however we didn’t mind too much we just shut the window and the curtains. The room was also very small but again because of the cheapness (the hotel, not mine) that was ok too.The room was in dire need of refurbishment, a previous review mentioned threadbare carpets and I concur. There was a couple of bizarre room features including a mirrored wardrobe door that opened into the pointy bit on the door (the bit that makes it close) and I was terrified of breaking it every time the wardrobe was opened.The room was very hot, actually 27c as the aircon control unit helpfully told me, unfortunately that’s where it’s use ended as it performed little other function (we ended our stay with the temperature set to 14c and the room temperature kept on edging up).The bed was ok - smallish but not too uncomfortable.The noise was probably the worst aspect of the stay. Hard to describe but workmen from 7am drilling, noisy families from around 5am, and all sorts of other noises whilst we were in the rooms.The one redeeming feature was the shower. It was excellent. The sort you would expect in a 5 star establishment. But that was it.On reflection the cheapness and location makes the hotel ok and if there had been no workmen then I guess for 2 nights I could live with it but if you stay here, do so with open eyes.

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