While not as luxurious as other hotels the views from the room make up for it. The concierge was helpful in arranging private transportation to various tourist sites. The restaurant is decent also has great views. I recommend even people not staying in the hotel try the restaurant.

Grand Hotel Beijing in the capital of China can boast of great location – next to Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square. It’s the centre of the city with lots of fashionable boutiques and restaurants nearby. Our room was really spacious: a huge lounge and a bedroom with a king-size bed. Chinese hotels supply visitors with all amenities, including toothbrush and toothpaste, slippers, a kettle and green tea. It concerns 3 stars and lower rank, too; so Beijing 5 stars certainly had them all, together with bathrobes and body milk. The windows of our room faced the patio - not a great view - but perfect for sleeping, it was very quiet. The bed was comfy, luxury linen and an assortment of pillows to choose from. The territory of the hotel is enormous; you can have a swim in the pool, relax in spa (rather pricey) or get a drink in the bar. Frankly, the breakfast was not very good; offering mostly oriental food, no coffee too. At the same time, in China you should enjoy quality green tea; it makes a nice souvenir as well.
Tip: take care to reserve a taxi well in advance; otherwise it might take too long to wait.

i arrived there follow the GPS, it is beside the Beijing fandian. so will miss if without GPS. we booked one familly room, could stay 3persons, include one twinsize bed and one single bed, room is bigger than i thought. i could arrived on forbidden city in 5mins by walking and easy arrived on the famous wangfujing in 10mins. worth to saty in as the location

This was a high end hotel geared to the Chinese traveller. The Communist Party Standing Committee was staying there for most of our stay. Unfortunately, that meant that many of the better rooms were reserved for CPC members, so our rooms were at first not ready. We had much better rooms during our second stay in June. The Forbidden City View rooms are worth the upgrade- request a high floor, if possible. The rooms were clean, the king size canopy bed in one room was spectacular- we felt like an emperor and empress in it! The bathrooms were clean, much nicer than we expected, all in marble, with tons of amenities.

The hotel is a bit hard for taxis to find- the entrance is narrow and not well marked. It is right next to the Raffles Hotel (it is connected to Raffles and from Raffles connected to the Beijing Hotel). The pool was very nice and clean, if a bit on the cold side.

The buffet breakfast was fine- nothing special, but the service was good. The dinner buffet is less terrific, but there are many other non-hotel Beijing restaurants nearby which are not only better, but much less expensive. Notably, the APM building on Wangfujing Street has terrific dumpling restaurants on the fifth floor. Avoid the basement of the closer mall to the hotel on Wangfujing Street- had several members of our party get food poisoning from the Korean and hot pot restaurants there. Also avoid the Chinese banquet restaurant in the basement of the connected Beijing hotel- pricey and poor quality food.