Description
For carry forward unique indigenous culture of Beijing and the quintessence of Chinese culture, from 5th June until 31st December 2010, book any type of room (including dorm bed) for five nights or more, and pay all in one upon arrival (none cancellation after check in), you will enjoy a free Peking Opera ticket per person on Wednesday or Friday. (LiYuan Theater, since 1991, Theater price 280/p seat in red section, first floor).
Beijing City Walls is an exquisite traditional courtyard house, located within an ancient urban town area, the most authentic old town in Beijing. In front of our gate, there is a traditional zigzag alleyway - completely different from many areas.
Beijing City Walls is very different from many of the beautiful Hutongs that are currently being remodeled for modern living. The zigzag alleyway in front of the gate dates back to the great old Peking. No modern transport vehicle can pass through, one can only walk or use a bicycle.
Just a minute's walk from the gorgeous and traditional alley of Beijing Major Street, you can begin to sense the history and tradition of the Beijing Old Town. The retired elders, basking and chatting under the sunshine; chirping birds, congregating under the gate tower; Pekinese, tied on the wire pole; rabbits, kept inside the cages; and also an old Hutong public toilet, which was built 30 years ago.
Quiet alleyways, friendly eyes, a warm exchange of greetings within neighbors, and a simple and happy life atmosphere: all these remind you of life in Old Town Beijing.
At Beijing City Walls, renovations have been carried out in full accordance with the traditional taste and modern standards. Red lanterns and Chinese knots sit with a comprehensive functional public hall, free wireless internet access, clean guestrooms with cooling and heating air conditioning and big washrooms that conform to European and American standards.
Our staff have many years of experience, and they fully understand the variety of international cultures and different habits of living. They can provide many kinds of services.
You may also learn to write a few Chinese characters, sing one or two sentences of Peking Opera, paste a traditional kite or personally make and taste your own dumpling.
After spending five to ten minutes in the gorgeous and traditional Hutong (alley), you promptly approach the Forbidden City, the BeiHai Park (North Sea Park), and the HouHai tourist site. After a short cycle, you can also reach Tiananmen Square, WangFuJing Shopping Centre, The Temple of Heaven (Tian Tan), The Drum-Tower, Lama Temple and LiuLiChang (the antique calligraphy and painting street). Taking a taxi from the XiDan Aviation building and the Beijing Railway Station, where the regular airport bus is located, only costs about 1.5 Eur-2 Eur. Dozens of lines of buses in the surrounding areas assure your travel will be convenient and enjoyable.
City Walls — enjoy the unforgettable Beijing lifestyle.
Beijing City Walls is an exquisite traditional courtyard house, located within an ancient urban town area, the most authentic old town in Beijing. In front of our gate, there is a traditional zigzag alleyway - completely different from many areas.
Beijing City Walls is very different from many of the beautiful Hutongs that are currently being remodeled for modern living. The zigzag alleyway in front of the gate dates back to the great old Peking. No modern transport vehicle can pass through, one can only walk or use a bicycle.
Just a minute's walk from the gorgeous and traditional alley of Beijing Major Street, you can begin to sense the history and tradition of the Beijing Old Town. The retired elders, basking and chatting under the sunshine; chirping birds, congregating under the gate tower; Pekinese, tied on the wire pole; rabbits, kept inside the cages; and also an old Hutong public toilet, which was built 30 years ago.
Quiet alleyways, friendly eyes, a warm exchange of greetings within neighbors, and a simple and happy life atmosphere: all these remind you of life in Old Town Beijing.
At Beijing City Walls, renovations have been carried out in full accordance with the traditional taste and modern standards. Red lanterns and Chinese knots sit with a comprehensive functional public hall, free wireless internet access, clean guestrooms with cooling and heating air conditioning and big washrooms that conform to European and American standards.
Our staff have many years of experience, and they fully understand the variety of international cultures and different habits of living. They can provide many kinds of services.
You may also learn to write a few Chinese characters, sing one or two sentences of Peking Opera, paste a traditional kite or personally make and taste your own dumpling.
After spending five to ten minutes in the gorgeous and traditional Hutong (alley), you promptly approach the Forbidden City, the BeiHai Park (North Sea Park), and the HouHai tourist site. After a short cycle, you can also reach Tiananmen Square, WangFuJing Shopping Centre, The Temple of Heaven (Tian Tan), The Drum-Tower, Lama Temple and LiuLiChang (the antique calligraphy and painting street). Taking a taxi from the XiDan Aviation building and the Beijing Railway Station, where the regular airport bus is located, only costs about 1.5 Eur-2 Eur. Dozens of lines of buses in the surrounding areas assure your travel will be convenient and enjoyable.
City Walls — enjoy the unforgettable Beijing lifestyle.
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Great location in terms of walking to and from shopping and sights. Nice authentic hutong area. It was clean, homely and had great food (not inc in price). They also do laundry, organise well priced, legit tours to great wall etc, that dont stop off at shops on the way! They also allowed early check in (our flight arrived in Beijing at 5:30am!)
— Customer review (2011-11-12)
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The atmosphere was great, they also had fair priced food and drinks. The water was only 2RMB and the beers were 4RMB! They had a wonderful American Breakfast for only 25RMB that I ate and enjoyed everyday!
— Haley Huffines (2011-07-03)
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Great place, great food there too. Very nice staff who speaks very good english and there if you have any question they will help you.
— Customer review (2011-06-07)
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Rick and Rachel went out of their way to be helpful, directive and friendly to guests especially me.
The rooms were cleaned daily, flushing western loos, plenty of hot water, relaxed atmosphere and soo close to fobidden city etc..
staying in a hutong is better than being on anoisy main beijing street, loads of character.
— Customer review (2011-05-31)
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Helpful and honest staffs give many useful tips about city,extremely
useful for me first time Beijing.Clean room, cosy common area easy
meet other traveler.Cheep beer and food.It's in the real Hutong and
walking distance to many famouse sits downtowm.Will be back for sure.
— Customer review (2011-03-30)
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It had a hotel feel which was great for my parents who had never stayed in a hostel.
— hannah Tyler (2010-07-18)
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great place we loved it!
— Customer review (2010-06-10)
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Traditional looks of an old hutong and a very peaceful haven from the madness of Beijing.
— scott henderson (2010-06-06)
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Staff is absolutely the best. Three cheers, five stars and copious kudos. Great food on premises at great prices and the coffee is terrific. Beds are hard and the hostel would have been difficult to find if a staff member hadn't come out to get us, but those are the only less-that-complimentary comments I can make.
— joanna crosby (2010-06-06)
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Very pretty hostel and really quite location. Staff really friendly and the small hostel makes a lovely place to stay compared to large and noisy hostels.
— Customer review (2010-03-27)
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The staff at this hostel were really friendly and helpful. As soon as I got there they gave me a free map and a guide to main attractions with English and Mandarin translations. This was extremely useful as the hostel is very central but still a short taxi ride from most of the main attractions (Beijing is a huge city!!!) As the hostel is in a hutong it can be tricky to find on your own, I had to get the cab driver to ring the reception for more directions to find the street. The locals are well used to backpackers wandering the hutong and kindly pointed me in the direction of the hostel. The interior of the hostel is fantastic, really cosy atmosphere and I found it easy to meet other travellers. The dorm was clean and comfortable but a bit smaller than some of the other hostels I'd stayed in and the lockers provided were only big enough to hold your valuables not your backpack and are outside the dorm in the communal area. You can book trips to the great wall etc at discount prices (good value) and the food was lovely with a western menu available. One downside, there are no street lights in the hutong itself so it's really dark if you're returning to the hostel at night even so I felt pretty safe and I was travelling alone.Overall I'd recommend this hostel for the character, atmosphere and friendly staff.
— Customer review (2010-02-22)
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Everything!The staff are extremely friendly and helpful,great location,great reasonably priced food and drinks are available if you are too lazy to drag yourself away from the comfort of the hostel the occasional visit by the hostel dog Tin Tin .Highly recommend this hostel if you are staying in Beijing
— David Correll (2010-01-16)
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No.6 Winner of "World Top 10 Hostel of 2008" !? I was disappointed as I have seen several better hostels in Asia. Good location & friendly stuff, but very small rooms, problems with hot water...
— Customer review (2009-11-16)
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The atmosphere
— Customer review (2009-11-11)
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It was freezing inside the lobby area and in the evenings also the rooms were cold. Beer was cheap but there were no party atmosphere in this hostel. Location was central and made it easy to walk to Tian'anmen Square and to other attractions. Great location to see local people!
— Johanna Kolkak (2009-11-10)
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Me and my 7 friends really loved staying at Sitting On The City Walls Couryard House! Rachel and Rick and the rest of the staff were very friendly and helpful, and gave good recommendations on where to go and how to get there, often writing down the Chinese characters when it would be helpful for finding our way. The place has a wonderful atmosphere, the food they had available was quite decent, and our rooms were comfortable and clean. The place is located in a hutong (a local neighborhood, of which there are not all that many left), which was way cooler than staying in a sterile part of town. It is a short walk to The Forbidden City, and across from Jinshang Park (way worth a visit, since it affords a wonderful view of the whole city), and about a 20-minute walk from the closest subway station (Dongsi). There are many busses within a 2-minute walk that are convenient for getting all over town (for 1 RMB, or about 1.5 US cents!). It got pretty cold a few of the nights we were there, but the heat in most of the rooms is really good, and they provided us with plenty of blankets. I would definitely recommend this place, and will stay again next time I go to Beijing.
— Mitch Altman (2009-11-05)
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One of the best hostel I've been to and really helpful staff.
— Customer review (2009-10-29)
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Rick and Rachel were great. They gave advice on where to go and how to get around without associating themselves with tour groups. Free internet and lovely atmosphere inside.
— Customer review (2009-10-21)
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+ Really charming inside, not just a standard hostel, but with Chinese flair+ Nice and helpful staff- A bit hard to find the first time, hidden in an alley after some curves- People smoke in the lobby. ok, but the smoke also comes into the rooms then
— Customer review (2009-10-15)
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Great little hostel hidden deep within a traditional Chines HuTong which can actually seem a bit intimidating at first but the locals are polite and friendly - I feel safer here than in most British cities! The private rooms are small with firm beds and an ensuite wet room / toilet.The staff here are very helpful and always go out of their way to help. They booked our train tickets to Xi'an and a tour of the hiking section of the great wall, which, while tiring was an awesome experience not to be missed and great value for money. If you need to get somewhere by taxi, the staff will write down the address in Chinese so you can give it to the taxi driver.They do some great food onsite but if you want some variety there's a whole bunch of great places to eat and drink within easy walking distance.I think the only fault is that the rooms all face into the central courtyard so if any late night / early morning activities are taking place the noise can be a bit annoying, especially if you are trying to sleep off your jet lag.
— Andrew Warburton (2009-10-08)
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Hostelz.com Guest Reviews
Best in Asia Wow, Wow, Wow! That's about it really. Rick and co have managed to keep this hostel magical and I really felt like I got an inside few of the traditional life in Beijing. I'd say the hotels in Beijing are not as good as this place! The best hostel I've ever been in. And I've stayed in about a hundred at this stage! — Aismul , Irish (2009-02-23)