We feel a great familiarity with this Hotel and it's environ, as it is a part of the One Indigo Shopping Mall together with a Fortune 500 good office Tower. Because it feels very much like our own Orchard Rd ION. (Incidentally, by the same design architect). Coming as we are from Singapore.
I would most certainly return to stay at East Beijing for all of the above reasons but mainly because it's a business stay hotel, so less of the noisy heckling tourist types around. The Foyer is sparse and calm and all the checking in or moving out is almost imperceptible. The rooms layout is fabulous, in finishes and interior design, for cleanliness, very bright and airy in spatial sparseness yet evincing a high comfort level.
Its location on the outer fringe of the Inner City is a blessing and not a lack, to come away from all that crowdedness. And being linked directly to the Jiangtai Metro connects it to the other 18 lines serving Beijing City. Not to mention too that its so much nearer to the Airport. Can't ask for more.
The other reason being that it's 3 bus stops away or within walking distance to the 798 Art District which is our 1st reason for visiting- to view shows and cafe hop. Unfortunately, the art scene is not really up to expectation.
So yeah, we are so glad we found this gem of a place to centre ourselves in BJ for 10 days.
