The hotel is very nice and quiet, located in a commercial district, close to a subway station. Rooms are very spacious and clean. The only problem is that this is not a hotel for tourists at all. The service attendants are not very helpful with the touristic enquirers, they don't even have a Beijing map. Otherwise the hotel is worth recommending. It is good quality for the reasonable cost.
The internet connection is extremely slow.

I stayed at the Somerset for 4 weeks will in Beijing on business.

The room was comfortable. However, there were tiles coming off the wall in the bathroom and the frame for the shower screen was rusted. The cleaning staff could have been better as the cleaning was hit and miss.

For the business traveler requiring good internet. You will not get it at this hotel. The speed was slow and often stalled. The wireless was not available in my room. In the end it was easier to stay back in the office.

My wife and I stay there with my baby daughter. I checked several hotels with kithen in room, then finally picked this one. The room is clean and the staff is very friendly. The two room suite is very nice, with a large living room and kithen area. One thing really good is that you could almost borrow whatever you need. We got a rice cooker from the hotel while we were there. They have breakfast but you have to either go out or cook for lunch or dinner. It is in a convinient location with a large supermarket Carrefour nearby. The surrounding area is nice though there were a lot of constructions going on along the streets while we were there. They have a swimming pool that is quite big and also a play room for kids. Overall I think it is the best choice for a long stay in Haidian area for a family.

Location: walking distance to subway line 4 and line 10. got a supermarket and shopping mall nearby. the hotel is located in Haidian district, which is west side of Beijing. very close to Summer Palace, but far away from all other tourist spots, like forbidden city, CBD, etc. Most of expats restaurants are on the east side, Jianguo & Sanlintun. you can take a cab (approx. USD 55) or subway (RMB 2) to get there. But you travel on the rush hour, it normally takes 30-40 mins to go from west to east side of the city by car and packed in the subway. (most likely rush hour in Tokyo)

Breakfast: limited choice. juice tastes likely from cans. got milk and yogurt daily and soy milk twice a week. plain fried rice (hardly see meat or egg.) We stayed there for a month. I skipped last two weeks as I got tired about feeding myself with plain toast every morning.

Room: Reasonable size. Housekeeping service comes only 3 times a week and sometimes manage to skip vacuum the floor. But they will do it upon you request for sure. They didn't change shower curtain daily. They finally got it replaced upon my request after 3 weeks and it stink already. Besides, they only provide hotel size shampoo, conditioners, and detergent 1st day you check in and mention it is not part of the service from them during the stay. So we will have to get those from supermarket for household size. (of course, the household size is way too much for a month consumption.) A/C: they seems running saving during the night. we didn't really have a/c but vent while we sleep. We have asked the staff come and check once. It works the 1st night after he fixed but it becomes vent again rest of the month. But night in Beijing is about 23-25 degree and occasionally rains in July. So we manage to survive.

Staff: nice in general. but not very professional about good restaurants in town. You will have to grab your guide book to ask for help.

Internet: Ethernet connection is fine but wireless is horrible. I have to bring my IPAD2 outside my room to get reception. one staff told us it is the best for wireless nearby kitchen and the other staff told us it is the best for wireless in the lobby, which we were told by the other staff it is not true. Very misleading.

Child friendly: China is child friendly country. With the in room kitchen, we will be able to cook for our kids. So we will still recommend this place if you travel with kids. But it is about 10 min walking to subway station and expect 15-20 min walk with young kids/toddlers.