Livefortuna Hotel

Every now and then a four-star earns its place on a shortlist by simply doing the basics very well, Livefortuna Hotel, in Chaoyang, is one of those. The setting is part of the appeal, set away from the busiest corners of Beijing, and the location score sits in modest territory because of it. Rooms feel well-appointed;…

Every now and then a four-star earns its place on a shortlist by simply doing the basics very well, Livefortuna Hotel, in Chaoyang, is one of those. The setting is part of the appeal, set away from the busiest corners of Beijing, and the location score sits in modest territory because of it. Rooms feel well-appointed; the touches travellers mention most are on-site parking, an in-house restaurant and reliable wi-fi, and the comfort feedback has been consistently flattering. There's a particular atmosphere to the place, neither overdesigned nor neglected. Pull the review pages apart and you find well over 1,600 reviews, with a genuinely glowing consensus that's hard to engineer. Reputation has held up across enough stays to mean something. Pricing has been sitting near €76 a night and the value score puts it in a middle-of-the-road bracket compared with similar properties. Stack Livefortuna Hotel against the better-known names in Beijing and the trade-offs become genuinely interesting.