Beijing Yuanzhu Xiaoshe Villa

Don't book this unless you want to be stranded and left without accommodation. The booking is completely misleading as the villa is nothing like it's advertised. We thought we booked a room in the villa as this was the name of the booking and the address and amenities mentioned in the booking on Trip.com. However, it turned out the room was in a completely different location and building and had none of the amenities it said it would in our bookings. After mentioning this to the owner,板筋, he argued and quickly started shouting at us. Before we knew it he cancelled the reservation and left the us without saying another word. We did not get a refund and he kept the money for the reservation. While Trip.com tried to be helpful, they couldn't get our money back, even though the information on their website was absolutely incorrect.

About the hotel : it's not an hotel, more like a B&B - which is completely fine but good to have in mind. About the room : We have to say we found the description to be quite misleading compared to the room we had - but it's maybe because stuff got lost in translation. The room we were in was in a massive building (no villa), hardly had a view, and especially no swimming pool access. Nothing compared to the pictures we saw. Appart from that deception the room was good, clean, of good size and had a balcony.

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 ❤