Beijing Yuanzhu Xiaoshe Villa

The place is clean, spacious and look exactly like how depicted in the pictures. Check in is easy with check in code, host is very responsive. The location is right next to water town that we could walk to water town and Great Wall. However it’s gated community. Our Didi and Taxi couldn’t go inside due to locked gate. We had to walk all the way to the parking lot outside to get Didi.

This accommodation accepts foreigners. After booking this place, tried to contact owner via WeChat with contact provided, but owner never added me until I needed to text in Chinese from my phone (using translator). When arrived to the location he sent me on a map, I received directions to find the apartment myself. We never once met the owner of the property. All conversations using Wechat were in Chinese (me using translator). The little studio was clean when we arrived, but later at night was full of loud insects that we had to eliminate in order to sleep. The bed was very hard not comfortableat all. The kitchen was supposed to have everything available to make meals (at least was what I have read in previous reviews) but in reality had nothing, not even a spoon. It was a very simple place, a bit expensive for what you get.

owner was a really nice man offered to take us back to city centre because it was really hard to get a car in there

We had a great time. It said bbq allowed when we booked, but we got a unit where we couldn’t bbq, when asked about it, the host quickly offered us a different(amazing) unit, where our kids played all day long, while we relaxed and had a bbq. We didn’t even leave the Vila until we checked out, as it had everything we needed, and there was a lot to keep the kids busy.

A good place with beautiful sceneries you can see the great wall from there

This is a serviced apartment close to WTown. It is difficult to get to as the traffic is restricted and you need to contact the house keeper. Make sure you have someone with you who speaks Chinese. The apartments seem to be owned by several different people and the beds and quality differ considerably. We were moved to one that had better beds and amenities.

View of the Great wall from the hotel is so beautiful. The host is nice ❤

This was my worst hotel experience when I was traveling China. Most of it could have been avoided by the hotel informing me prior to the trip that there is a central reception at the central square in front of Gubei WTown where you will most likely get the information about your room location. What I didn't know is that the area is a huge resort complex with several houses and that it didn't make any sense to try and find my small hotel (what it looked like from the booking) via map because the location was different on all apps I was using (AMap, Trip, Google Maps). It took me an hour until an elderly woman stopped me and called what I think was the reception, added somebody in my WeChat contacts (receptionist?) and only then I got the information - after carrying my bags around for 1 hour. From then on, the stay went smoothly although I got scammed with a ridiculously high taxi transfer offer (which I had to take at least one way as there were no other options for me as a non-Chinese speaking European traveler.

The place is different from the online photo 😬 but the owner is very efficient. Quite place .