Chengfangyuan™
May 27, 2024
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🛏 【️Beijing Airport Holiday Inn Check-in Guide】
📌 Hotel Overview
❶. Comprehensive evaluation: The hotel is right next to the Nanfaxin subway station, just a hundred meters away. If you drive, there is a large ground parking lot, which is completely free. The airport highway often becomes congested suddenly due to special circumstances (for example, today when the "Equatorial Guinea" L guide visited, part of the terminal area was closed), so you must be careful when catching a flight or entering or leaving the city, and leave some margin to prepare for a rainy day. Linkong CP (15 minutes one way), Linkong HI (25 minutes one way), Linkong HIX (15 minutes one way) all have free shuttle buses to the Capital Airport; during the Beijing Auto Show, all three hotels were filled with relevant Chinese and foreign staff of the OEM (including but not limited to leaders, media, suppliers, car fans visiting the exhibition, etc.), and it was normal for a room to be hard to find (CP is within a ten-minute walk; HI is about 26 minutes one way to the New China International Exhibition Center; HIX is about 18 minutes one way to the New China International Exhibition Center); this year is the 10th anniversary of Beijing Linkong Holiday Inn, and I would like to wish the hotel a happy birthday and prosperous business!
❷. Local profile: Shunyi District has 25 towns and streets (12 towns, 7 districts, and 6 streets). The so-called "district" is the original urban-rural junction. With the acceleration of urbanization, it will slowly rise from "township" to "town", and when conditions are ripe, it will rise again to "street". In the final analysis, "district" is a transitional administrative division, and the final destination is from town to street. Linkong Zhixuan belongs to Chaoyang District, Linkong Crowne Plaza is actually in Tianzhu District (town), Linkong Holiday is in Nanfaxin District (town), and they will gradually be changed to streets in the future. In other words, the industry, commerce, hotel industry, real estate industry and even the entire economy in these places will only become more and more developed.
🏨 About the guest room In Room
❶. Guest room layout: The electronic scale and two TVs in the guest room are from the currently popular "Xiaomi"; the area of the superior suite and the high-floor executive suite of Crowne Plaza are exactly the same, both are 60 square meters. In addition to the shower and bathtub in the master bathroom, Linkong Holiday also has a shower room in the guest bathroom, which is unique in hotels of the same level and is extremely suitable for family stay;
❷. Welcome gift: There are three naming rules for InterContinental Group's airport hotels. The first is to indicate "Linkong" in the name, such as Hongqiao Linkong Express, Shuangliu Linkong Express, Tianfu Linkong Express, Beijing Linkong Holiday, etc.; the second is to directly name it "Airport", such as Guiyang Airport Express, Pudong Airport Express, Heathrow Airport Express, Moscow Airport Express (InterContinental series has been launched); the third is other conventional naming methods, such as HIX next to Milin Airport, which is named after the Chinese owner, Linzhi Huafa Express... I have stayed in all of these airport-type InterContinental hotels. The welcome dessert (the aesthetic level of the pastry chef exceeds that of most HIs and some CPs), welcome gift (coffee capsule gift box), welcome fruit (nearly ten categories, exquisitely presented), welcome beverages (various brands of soft drinks, Evian, juice, everything), and night bed gift (a series of cookies, better and more mellow than Hilton Garden Inn) of Beijing Linkong Holiday can definitely be ranked in the first echelon.
☕️ Dining
❶. Glimpse of food: The service in the restaurant is amazing, especially the young lady from Northeast China. Her bright smile is heartfelt. As soon as we entered the restaurant, she greeted us from afar, led us to the member area, and then served us our favorite coffee varieties. It was very considerate. In addition to the fragrant mutton soup and freshly made pancakes, the bananas on the fruit table are peeled for everyone, which is extremely rare in similar hotels. The executive lounge is on the western side of the first floor of the hotel, just like the canteen, outdoor rest area, lobby bar, all-day restaurant, and banquet hall. It is very easy to find. The lounge is officially named by "LiX Auto". There are L series of original car models in it, which is suitable for taking photos and checking in. There are actually quite a lot of cross-border interactions like this. For example, "W Lai" Auto moved its "Niuwu" to Hongqiao Airport, becoming China's first VIP lounge exclusively for car owners in an airport. This win-win cooperation model is worth promoting. Interestingly, the slogan of the Red Q brand is "Let reason fly", which happens to be the same as the name of the competitor. Now when I host car events, I also pay special attention to avoiding these homophones. For example, if there are words "W come" and "L want" in the string, I will replace them with many synonyms such as "future" and "dream" to avoid improper associations among car fans;
❷. City gluttony: It takes about a quarter of an hour to drive to "Euro Plaza". Fuquanguan (Shandong cuisine/copper pot hot pot meat) and Dongyachun (Cantonese cuisine) are particularly suitable for business banquets and family drinks. I have checked in at 7 "Holiday" brand hotels in Beijing (including a special historical reason for the Vision) hotels. In comparison, the food and shopping options around this Linkong Holiday are very rich, and not as desolate as everyone imagines.
🏊 Hardware Facilities
❶. Hotel environment: The speed of the passenger elevator (opening and closing doors, going up and down stairs) is slightly slow, mainly because the proportion of crew guests and Chinese and foreign (many Chinese, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and international people) business travelers is extremely high. Most of them drag large suitcases. Slowing down the speed is for their safety and convenience. The details are really thoughtful; the banquet hall is very large and suitable for meetings. During our stay, a large educational event was held here - this is very similar to Shijingshan Jingyuan Holiday (Shijingshan Holiday also has a large banquet hall at an inexpensive price, and often undertakes large-scale events; in addition, Shijingshan Holiday and Linkong Holiday have many "twin brothers"-like similarities or even the same points: the park greening is super good, the decoration style of the guest rooms and public areas is exactly the same, and they are all HI brands...).
❷. Fitness and recreation: Some heavy "hotel *******" and old-timers who live in hotels will stay at Atour or Four Seasons near their homes in late winter and early spring, not for the purpose of staying there or for a real business trip, but to use free commercial washing machines and dryers to wash their down jackets and cotton clothes - first, it saves a lot of money compared to dry cleaners; second, the power and effect of commercial washing and drying machines are far better than household washing and drying machines (such as the earliest batch of coin-operated American imported washing and drying equipment from Zhixuan, which is really easy to use). Similarly, I often stay at this holiday home with my wife and children for other reasons. The fitness equipment on the basement floor is particularly complete and well maintained, especially the exclusive snooker room, which is rarely crowded (the billiard room of Badaling Crowne Plaza is too far away), the balls, cues, tables, and scoreboards are all very new, the environment is quiet, and it is completely free. Once my two sons are addicted to billiards, this is the ultimate solution, and it works every time.
🌟 The Moments
❶. Star staff: Every staff in the front office (including the operator on the other end of the phone every time) is polite. When they learned that I brought my child, they took the initiative to ask if I needed an extra bed; when they learned that I would return to the room after the hotel at night, they took the initiative to arrange for the lounge to move the "Happy Hour" essence version to the room (the time of happy hour is 17:30-21:00)... The delicate and thoughtful service is almost the same as that of Crowne Plaza Linkong (the same is true for Linkong CP. When the child accidentally broke the high-heeled glass in the room, the hotel did not ask for compensation at all, but hurriedly asked if the babies were injured, and kept asking about their well-being. I was really moved). Personally, I feel that it even exceeds the newly opened Yichang Wyndham Grand, which is a step-by-step enjoyment;
❷. Number of stays: I have stayed in this hotel 8 times, and this is the 9th time.
📍 Brief summary Conclusion
❶. Wonderful moments: I have stayed in 15 hotels in Shunyi District. Apart from the hardware carved by time, this Holiday Inn is definitely the best one - it is the legendary god-level hotel that makes people live comfortably. I entered the industry as a professional car and real estate host in September 2006. 2006-2014 was the peak of my career. I was in the best condition, performed the most, made the most money, and had the greatest ambition at that time. Therefore, I was a top member of almost all well-known airlines and hotel groups. 2015 was a watershed. People must accept old age, haha; from 2016 to now, I have begun to shrink the front line. I only dare to focus on one hotel and airline (Intercontinental and Air China) each, because my financial resources, physical strength, and ability are gradually declining, and other extravagant hopes can only be abandoned - then again, if the customer is not responsible for the hotel, if it is not just for the vanity of appearance, for "business trip party" like us who need to travel every week, the "Holiday" brand is the most cost-effective, practical, and stable choice. Believe me, it is right;
❷. Regrets: The Chinese owners of the three "Linkong" IHG hotels in Beijing are all very powerful: the Chinese owner of Linkong Smart is Beijing Construction Engineering, a state-owned enterprise in Beijing. Many important infrastructures around the airport come from the successful planning of this super-large group; Linkong Crown is backed by the famous real estate company "Dadi Lincoln". The "Shui Mu Lan Ting" high-end community, a well-known evergreen tree in Beijing's top villa area, is the masterpiece of Dadi Lincoln; the major shareholder of Linkong Holiday is "Junwei" Color Steel, which is famous in the capital and even in China's building materials industry (it also has involvement in the photovoltaic industry). Based on this alone, the hotel's construction quality and hardware can be said to be worry-free. I really can't find any shortcomings in such a comfortable and reassuring hotel.
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