Beijing Friendship Hotel is a pretty good hotel. The hotel takes a very large piece of land. It's kind of like a college campus, with hotel buildings, restaurants like TGI Fridays, gardens, etc. It used to be a very "Luxury" hotel to prople. Our room was okay. It was located in the 4th building. The size of the hotel room was a little small. Also, the newest rooms are now at the 1st building. Rooms (we had 2) can vary on cleaniness and how nice it is. Here's an example: a shower with only a shower curtain or a shower with a glass door and surrounded by glass and marble. In addition, the beds are really hard.

Breakfast is a buffet breakfast. There are many special Chinese delicasies. In addition, there are a variety of juices. However, they use a ton of oil for eggs.

Overall, the Beijing Friendship Hotel is okay. If you usually don't live in luxury hotels, this will be considered average to you. The breakfast is really good if you want to try out special Chinese items. Also, if you like greenery and Chinese architecture, this will be a pretty nice hotel for you.

During our holiday in China, we stayed at this hotel on two separate occasions. This is a very large complex and the actual hotel is separated into four buildings. Building one (which is the main entrance is very beautiful. We actually stayed in building three on our first stay and building four on our second stay. Both were in excellent condition. There is a central garden area which has a bar with food available, and on certain evenings there is entertainment. This hotel is worth a visit although there is not very much to see unless you cross an extremely busy road to the Shopping Mall opposite.

I was not expecting great with the price I paid. I booked directly as all the hotel booking websites indicated no more rooms in the hotel. It is located in the area I wanted to be, near the universities. The hotel turned out to be nice, clean and pleasant place to live for a few days. We were at Building 4 in a twin bed room non smoking. The room is well equipped but small so if you fitted an extra bed the room would just about fill up with the three single beds. Sometimes a bit difficult to get taxi from front of the building so yu would have to walk to the front of the hotel complex and that takes about 5-10 minutes.

Stayed here for a business trip in May 2007. Building 1 was being renovated; I stayed in Building 4. Beds were indeed very firm, yet somehow comfortable for me, and I slept fine. There is a central electronic control at the nightstand that operates lights, A/C, and serves as an alarm clock and even tells you that 23C is "cool", which an American might not know. I was not able to get my international phone card to work despite numerous sessions with the staff. The ATM in the lobby did not work with my bank card, so I had to use a bank across a very busy street. The breakfast buffet was a wide selection of Eastern and Western hot and cold dishes. You could also get a dinner buffet with appropriate selections, including unlimited beer. A so-call French/Russian restaurant served decent spaghetti. The "supermarket" was not super, but was fairly extensive. I didn't try TGIF's, but my friends liked it. There is a large fitness center with olympic indoor pool, two indoor tennis courts, table tennis, pool, and more, for slight extra cost. One caveat, my colleagues and I were approached more than once by persons on hotel grounds offering female companionship, so beware of bringing your family.