Dream Castle

The front desk staff were very helpful, particularly Billy who speaks reasonably good English, and showed me the Anzhen Xili neighbourhood in the process of finding me a sim card for my phone, negotiating with vendors and all that. The location is the best part. The Weiduomei bakery and 7-11 in the building's storefronts were very handy to have nearby. There is a big dept. store and grocery store and restaurants across the street. The 3rd Ring Rd. is right there with the 300 bus that will take you to Sanyuanqiao. Anzhenmen subway station is 5-10 mins walk. Taxi fare 12 rmb to Olympic Park area (where my conference was being held), very cheap. Anzhen is total immersion in modern Chinese residential life, great experience.

If you like hygiene, don't stay here. They don't change the sheets unless you make it very clear, and there are things that...are not cleaned the way a professional big hotel would clean them, far from it. This is roughing it, but it's way cheap and you don't have to share like a hostel. I hope I didn't bring body lice back with me, really, but I couldn't have afforded China without the Dream Castle. I couldn't figure out where the breakfast was held, but it didn't matter because a superb continental breakfast could be had from the nice ladies at the Weiduomei cafe downstairs for 20 rmb, where I ate every day.

very caring personnel and location

rooms should be more clean and/or cleaned properly