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4/10 Poor

lin, philadelphia

8 Dec 2014

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

The hotel was okay. The bathroom smell like cigarette when we were there. when other people smoke in there room you'll be able to smell it in your room it sucks if you don't smoke cigarettes. But if you do you'll be right at home. Don't think they have non-smoking rooms. My room was changed two times because of the smell of cigarette. The lobby was the nicest place of the hotel. Paint was peeling from the ceiling in the room. The beds were hard as rock. No I would not recommend it.

10/10 Excellent

Enrique, Dominican Republic

17 Apr 2014

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

My first chinese hotel

Grand lobby. Confortable 1 & 1/2 bathroom suite. In room safe. Two TV monitors. Small refrigerator. Good breakfast. Make it a point to enjoy the Tang dynasty dinner show in the hotel.

4/10 Poor

Dulverton, Toronto

27 Oct 2013

Disliked: Staff & service

No understanding of English

Had difficulty at the front desk and in the Chinese dining room with English. For example I asked for beer, they bought me a bottle that was at room temperature. I asked for cold beer and the manager took the bottle and ten minutes later appeared with a hot beer. Food service was very slow with steamed rice making a late appearance. On the plus side the room was fine and the food good. It's just a pity that a hotel that rates itself as a 4 star international does not have an English Capability.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

21 Jun 2013

4/10 Poor

Constanza, Chile

18 Jun 2013

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Mal olor y ubicación

Lo deteste: cama dura, mal olor y la ubicación me pareció mala! Existen hoteles mejores en Xi ' an

8/10 Good

The Interloper, North Carolina

15 Jun 2013

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Great Short Stay Hotel

We stayed at the GNWH on our last night in Xian. Check in was a breeze (although a heads up about the security deposit) would have been nice). We received adjoining rooms as requested, which was great. The rooms were great - super comfy bed, really nice bathrooms, cold a/c, and fridge. The carpet, however, was a little on the shabby side. We used the pool in the afternoon, which was busy but well maintained. We had room service pasta and noodles for dinner, which was solid if unspectacular. The breakfast the next morning, again, was good but not great. Check out was quick and courteous. Because we were a family of four with a fair bit of luggage, the concierge ordered us 2 roomy taxis for the ride to the airport. The entire stay was very comfortable - it was great to have some of the rough edges of "the Chinese Experience" knocked off for a night.

4/10 Poor

Luis, New York

3 Jun 2013

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Grand but Tired

We were in Xian for only one night. The hotel lobby is overly grand and does not reflect the quality of the accomodations, which desperately need renovation and better maintenance. Our room was dirty and the carpet was stained and worn, the bath curtain had black mold on it. The staff is curt and barely fluent in English until a manager could be located to translate. It seems like the notion of hospitality is absent. Even the "welcome" information advises what prices guests will be charged if anything is damaged or missing. The room service is clumsy and difficult to order from. We were hung up on once and had to call again and had difficulty ordering in English. We were then charged higher than the prices on the menu. The bed was very firm but we slept well because we were exhausted. When leaving for the airport the next morning they first said they could not get a taxi, only a hotel car which would be more expensive. Then they got a taxi anyway. Good value but customer service needs a makeover.

8/10 Good

tony g, lincoln uk

13 Apr 2013

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

good central location within city walls

excellent location wityhin city walls and convenient for major bus routes. Hotel arranged day trip driver with excellent english. most hotel staff understood and spoken rudimentary english - enough to get by. excellent buffet breakfast and good choices for evening meals in the 2 hotel restaurants. Room slightly cramped with 3 persons occupancy and air con noisy but those were the only minor negative. Would use again.

8/10 Good

Bjarne W.

24 Aug 2012

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Godt og velfungerende hotel

Flot og velfungerende hotel. Rene og pæne værelser. Morgenmadsbuffet af svingende kvalitet; én gang god og velforsynet - en anden gang med sløv betjening og tomme fade. Service i reception var tip-top

8/10 Good

Judy

13 Aug 2012

Liked: Staff & service, room comfort

Clean oasis in dusty city

The hotel was a welcome relief of comfort. Transportation to the hotel from the airport should be planned ahead.

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

10 Jul 2012

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Overall a good choice

This is a large, Western style hotel that feels like an upper-middle range hotel in the US. After travelling in China, it did feel good to spend two nights with a full tub and shower. This seems to be a hotel used by tour groups, which helps explain the ambience. We did not eat in the Western style restaurant, which looked boring and overpriced. The Chinese restaurant was not at all busy and had good food at reasonable prices and OK service. (We loved the celery steamed dumplings at 10 RMB.) The concierges varied in English skills, but we got the help we needed. The hotel was a couple of kilometers northwest of the Bell Tower. While some hotels are closer, it was good for us not to be in the very heart of the old city. The pedestrian mall in the Muslim Quarter (worth a visit) and narrow streets would make it difficult to get out to where one needs to be to travel to the Terra Cotta Warriors. (South of the Bell Tower might also be OK.) This is a quirky city with one truly outstanding sight to see. Since getting to the Terra Cotta warriors early is valuable to avoid crowds (this seems to be true everywhere in China) we were happy to have stayed here. Overall, a good choice.

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

2 Jul 2012

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

5 Jun 2012

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

4/10 Poor

Caroline, France

5 Jun 2012

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities

Décevant

Hôtel sombre, en-deça d'un 4 étoiles. Environnement peu agréable. Chambre incluant Internet gratuit dans l'offre et obligation de payer. L'ai obtenu gratuitement après revendication auprès de la réception. Impression : tout est fait pour vous prendre un maximum d'argent.

6/10 Okay

International, Canada

11 Feb 2012

Liked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Great hotel, but overpriced inadequate service.

Fantastic hotel location, look and architecture. It's like it's a 5 star hotel, but staffed with people that have never done this job before. They are trying very hard to give great service, but they definitely fall short of the mark. Though, I must say that it might have been because of the low time of the year maybe as there only seemed to be about 20 people staying there.

10/10 Excellent

Robert

10 Dec 2011

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Grend New World Xi'an

We loved this place and it was nicely located so that we could walk to all the close sites and then they arranged for us the tours to the sites outside the city walls. The staff were friendly and very helpful and the room was very clean and comfortable. There is nothing but positives to say about this hotel. As in other reviews I have to mention that the beds are extremely hard.

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

2 Nov 2011

Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities

10/10 Excellent

John, Norfolk

2 Oct 2011

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Good Beijing Hotel

Located in a urban area and within walking distance of reasonable places to eat, pleanty of food stores for snacks, fruit etc. 10 min walk to subway but once there we could access just about any part of the city. Easy to buy tickets and route map and station names in Chinese and English. We asked for a quite room and we were given one. Booked with Expedia and no problems except that breakfast was not included.

10/10 Excellent

Audra, Denver, CO

15 Aug 2011

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

A+ rest and recovery from busy tour

Beautiful hotel with a wonderfully helpful staff; one of the front desk staff helped with solving a problem - translating my English with the needed Chinese :)

4/10 Poor

Kam, New York, NY

19 Jun 2011

Liked: Staff & service

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Feels like a run down hotel

When we arrived at the hotel, we were delayed about 1-2hrs because they needed to prepare the room. They were nice enough to give us a free pass to a beverage at their Cafe Bar. We got the standard queen size room for four days. The room was okay, nothing too great or fantastic about the room. Some of the wallpaper looked worn down and there were plaster used to fixed some damage on the ceiling. We had a window view of Xi'an which was decent. The bathroom was had signs of mildew everywhere, which turn me off. The thing i liked about the hotel was the addition of the pool. the pool was a nice place to cool off during a hot day in Xi'an.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

12 May 2011

Disliked: Staff & service, room comfort

8/10 Good

Ellen, Göteborg

1 May 2011

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Hotellet ligger lite i utkanten av själva centrum, men innanför stadsmuren. Eftersom det (i dagsläget) inte finns någon tunnelbana måste man antingen gå eller ta en taxi för att komma till marknaden, affärer, busstationen etc. En taxiresa tar ca 10 min, kostar ca 10 kr, till busstationen för att åka till ex terrakottaarmén. Hotellet var rent, snyggt och alla bekvämligheter fanns. Frukosten var utmärkt mot en tilläggsavgift på 50 kr/pers (om det inte ingår dvs). Sängarna var dock hårda. Först fick vi ett rum där AC'n inte fungerade, men fick snabbt byta mot ett rum där det fungerade. Servicen var bra, engelskakunskaperna var varken bättre eller sämre än någon annan stans i Kina. Kan

8/10 Good

AJ, Queensland, Australia

18 Apr 2011

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Good Hotel

Check-in was effortless and very straightforward, room was spacious with king size bed. Free fruit on arrival which was nice attention to detail. Breakfast was included in price of room - good variety of food. Location is not central but had no problems with the location.

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

19 Mar 2011

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

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My first chinese hotel

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Dulverton, Toronto

No understanding of English

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6/10 Okay

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4/10 Poor

Constanza, Chile

Mal olor y ubicación

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Great Short Stay Hotel

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Luis, New York

Grand but Tired

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good central location within city walls

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8/10 Good

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Godt og velfungerende hotel

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