Great hotel, location and top restaurant for breakfast. Awesome views of 8 lane urban highways going as far as the eye can see. Brilliant roof top pool so you can watch the sunset lower with each stroke. Really stylish rooms although a word of caution - allow time to figure out the bath fill which is in the middle of the room, screened with a glass wall and finding the switch for the fancy screens.

I spent 5 days at the hotel in January 2012. Overall it's satisfactory for the price as I had a corporate rate, however I thought it was necessary to warn other travelers that the hotel is not exactly as good as described in the other reviews:

* Cleanliness:

The room was overall a bit worn out, the carpet had some stains. Coffee stains on the wall close to kettle were not cleaned. The bath-tube had black marks that had not been clean and there was a dead insect in the bathroom curtain, probably there for several months.

* Service:

Staff looks bored and does not always greet guests. They enter the room immediately after knocking, without making sure there is no one in. I asked for a late check out on a saturday, but when I came back from pool my key had been deactivated, and I was not able to take the lift and then could not enter my room. Nobody was there to help, I had to go back to reception to reactive my card. No apology.

Conclusion: overrated in other trip advisor reviews, and not up to the Renaissance standards based on other Renaissance hotels I have stayed in.

I had the chance to stay twice in this quite new hotel in Beijing and I loved it. The design of the hotel is very nice, very trendy and cosy. The Executive lounge is one of the best I have seen in a hotel so I strongly recommend to spend a little bit more to get the upgrade in the executive floor.
The location is convenient for tourism, there is a metro station at 5 minutes walking distance. Very enjoyable stay !!!

We are a family of 4 from USA and it was our first time in Beijing. We stayed at the hotel with two younger kids and we liked the hotel a lot.
Room: Very spacious, The bathroom has glass walls but it also has shutters that when you press a button then go down, beware though - if you make the shutters go all the way down, they will turn so everyone can see in. So leave an inch from the floor for shutters. Toiletries were fine, plenty of towels. The beds were comfortable. Loved the free internet in the room.
Room service: Negative, hated it. We ordered kid's hot dog - nothing resembles an american hot dog, so we sent it back.. then we ordered mac & cheese and it had onions in it, couldn't eat it either. One of us ordered fish and one peice of fish costs about $30 without any side dishes and it wasn't that good. For food we used French bakery accross the streat, where a meal would cost $5 and it was fresh and good.
The Sunday Brunch was The Best at this hotel. They had caviar (fake), local cousine as well as Western dishes. Tip: ask for a lobster, it's included in your price, they bring it to your table (1 per person). All the canned soda and bottled water you can drink. The desert was good too, not enough fruit though.
The Breakfast buffet at the hotel was good too, plenty of pastries, hot dishes, etc.
WiFi is free and they have outlet plugs for American electronics, so no need to bring a converter.
The check in and check out process was great, all the staff were polite and helpful, although only 10% of them spoke English (barelly) so you have to be patient and use imagination to explain what you want from them.
We walked around the hotel to search for food, big mall around the corner - not much food there. Huge supermarket is about 1 mile away (taxi cost is about $2) worth going to look at. Starbucks is around the corner. Ate at French Bakery a lot (takeout).
Would definatelly stay there again