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Two blocks north of the famed Night Market, the location is hard to beat. It’s a fairly modest place but looking quite spruce after a 2005 refit.Staff are well used to dealing with foreigners and there’s a travel advisory service, booking center, bicycle rental, and internet.

Among the older hotels in Beijing, but renovated to a standard above other Chinese-run options in this range. Rooms are comfortable, if a bit gaudy, with nice views from the upper floors. It’s round the corner from the railway station.

Dorms, hotel rooms, and apartments with kitchens for short- or long-term rent. Rooms feature dark wooden floors and faux-antique furnishings. There’s a popular football bar on the premises, and it’s a short walk to more bars in Sanlitun.

Excellent, modern three-star on a narrow lane just a few minutes’ walk from Wangfujing. All rooms have laptop portals, and satellite TV, and represent good value for money.

Sound mid-range option within walking distance of Sanlitun’s bars, restaurants, and shops. Rooms are clean and comfortable enough, if a little dated. Staff speak some English.

Rooms are tastefully decorated, with desks, comfortable sofas, and plush new duvets. It caters more for business people on lengthy stays, so service can be found wanting.

Recently renovated and cheap given the location. Rooms are simple but clean, and surprisingly large. Staff are more pleasant than is usual for a Chinese hotel.

Blander than when it was the Grand Hôtel des Wagons-Lits, but it offers good value for money in the pleasant Legation Quarter, and is walking distance from central Tian’an Men Square and Wangfujing Street.

A good-value option for both shoppers and hedonists, the four-star Scitech abuts a large department store and popular nightclub Banana. Standard rooms are a bit on the small side but are otherwise comfortable.

The hotel itself isn’t much to look at but rooms are decent. The Li Yun Theater, with nightly shows of Beijing Opera, is on the hotel grounds. The Temple of Heaven is a short walk away.