True Go Hotel (Beijing West Railway Station Liuliqiao East Subway Station)

Comfortable and spacious for a solo traveller. Comes with very attentive staff who answered my requests patiently. Also the breakfast was delicious, special thanks to the chef :) Just that it is actually quite far from train stations (15min walk). Bus to go to city is next to hotel but the bus coming back is on the opposite side of main road. Overhead bridge is further down, making it tiring to go back. Overall happy stay.

I am generous in my review, so beware. If you are not Chinese, avoid this place unless you are very tolerant of uncivilized behavior. To begin, we felted smoked all over, since our rooms smelled like smoke - which is unacceptable if you book and pay for smoke free rooms. The hotel appears to sell smoking rooms as “smoke free” because they have a huge white air purifying machine (about a meter in size) attached to the corner wall. I’m sure it helps but certainly not enough to call these rooms “non-smoking.” Also more people smoke in China than most places, so I’m sure it seems hopeless to ask them to stop or limit it around people who don’t. Chinese people don’t seem to care. However, as a hotel they should know that people not from China expect you to confront people breaking ‘no smoking’ rules - so do better. Other guests (more than just 1 other room) on our floor left their doors open, probably due to how many cigarettes they were smoking, and left their children free to roam, who in turn ran screaming up and down the halls until the early morning. If the hotel did not know this was happening it is because it is normal for them or they are incompetent. Again, this seems you al in China. Also, if you expect to have privacy for your normal bathroom behaviors, think again. This hotel only has tinted glass and some opaque film to help mask your most private bits and to cover your most private actions when using the toilet or taking a shower. The sink in the open - basically in the foyer of the room - in the way of the shower door. I’ve seen other hotels in China with glass bathrooms, but always more private than this. As for the breakfast, we paid extra for it in advance, which was a mistake. Being in an international city and advertised as a travelers hotel, we were disappointed to only have Chinese/Asian food options offered at breakfast. The hotel could rebut this and claim there is toast and jellies, etc, and that is true - but as a person who currently lives and works in China, I know the difference between only Chinese and international breakfasts. They never claimed it was a western breakfast, though. I’m just saying if you, like me, expected to have enough palatable food as a westerner, you will need to eat breakfast somewhere else like we did. Also, if you did choose to enjoy what’s offered for breakfast at the hotel, then you will likely end up sharing it in the small basement space where it is served with people who don’t know better than to light up a cigarette next to you while slurping, belching, hacking, spitting, and letting their kids tap dance on your table! If none of that dissuades you, and location is your primary interest, also know this hotel is not close enough to truly affiliate itself with Beijing West Train Station. Maybe if you take the subway to it, then yes. However, by that criteria several dozen hotels in Beijing could claim that! Don’t believe it. This hotel is in a “working class” slightly run down area near what are perhaps shady night-life spots. It is at least 1.5 km (1 mile) from the Beijing West Train Station. The workers in the hotel are nice, the tv is big, the beds were clean, the common areas were in good shape, minus the stains all over the hallway carpets. There are certainly better hotels for the same price.

Room is very clean. They pay attention to the details. It is within walking distance to the west Beijing railway station.