Mercure Hotel

The receptionist is very helpfull and humble… with walking distance you can go wangfujing shopping mall..

Rooms smell from cigarettes although we asked for non smoking rooms.  Breakfast was very poor, especially compared with the picture on Trip.com

This is no longer a Mercure hotel, when trying to resolve issues the staff told me it has ended its association with the international chain. That means - despite what reviews we’d read prior to booking - there’s no western/international breakfast, and also that the hotel wifi only works if you have a Chinese domestic SIM card (problematic for international visitors). Other issues we had: the room cards failed a number of times meaning we couldn’t turn lights on and unlock our door; the hotel toilet room smelled strongly of urine, the toilet by the breakfast area was unclean and had no soap; the AC didn’t work in our room which meant we were so hot we had to sleep with the window open (but even then the room stayed 24-25 degrees which is too hot to sleep well); and we had booked a deluxe room but not all amenities listed were provided especially notably no bathrobe. I am really not fussy or overly critical about hotels but I felt quite let down by this experience. Positives - nice clean bed, nice shower and there was great real coffee at breakfast. Also hotel is located centrally so good for getting a didi easily to sights - although not the better side of city for restaurants.