Watertown Hotel

Beautiful hotel, spacious, huge, and clean. Great breakfast selection. Deluxe Double room was still pretty fine! Hotel is just right outside of the Watertown but you get admission to enter staying at this hotel. It is furthest from Simatai Great Wall - can take shuttle bus.

The hotel is huge with grand lobby, a five star hotel lobby. The room is however, quite basic and nothing to shout about. The beds are big and comfortable. We were "upgraded" to another room with a section of view of the water town and great wall, but when we retuned to the room after water town tour, no more lights at water town and the great wall, lighting are off at 10 pm. Quite a long distance walking to Customer Service center of water town, and a long walk at the water town. We were immediately amazed by the beautiful scenery with so many photo shots. We walked all the way up to the cable car station of Simatai Great Wall at 6pm, managed to reach the Station 5 of the Great Wall at 640pm with a good view of sunset, and waited for lighting when sky turned dark. It was so beautiful up there. We could see the Water Town lighting from far. Cable car fare for hotel guests was RMB120 which I think it is worth to experience both the evening and night view of Great Wall. We felt it was unnecessary to climb the great wall again the next day although free tickets were given. Instead, we experienced the hot spring bath at 城上 (another hotel inside the water town), which I was amazed by the cleanliness, security, well organized multi-pool hot tubs. A tip to the cable car station: It is located at the far end of the water town, look for shuttle car at several exit of the water town to go straight to cable station without needing to walk all the way to and fro. Shuttle car is free for hotel guests. Another tip, restaurants are almost closed even before 9pm. There are few restaurants at another exit of the water town entrance, where hot food is still available at 10pm, a 24 hour Lawson is there too.

The room was dated. The toilet bowl was unable to flush and in the end, we have to get call the receptionist to contact the plumber to unchoke the toilet bowl. Breakfast spread was huge with lots of variety. Location was good with walking distance to water town and free bus ride to all the different parts of the town including the Great Wall cable car.

Checked in this hotel for a short stay and room was upgraded to Double Deluxe Room with window view. Overall we have had a pleasant days here and shall be back soon.

The room is clean but the balcony was a bit dirty maybe cleaner don’t clean the room’s balcony regularly and expect to see some bugs stuck on the window, bring bug repellent with you just in case. Overall the stay was pleasant , hotel breakfast spread was good too. View heading to the hotel lobby attached for reference.

Big rooms..located right on the middle of watertown. Very convenient. Amenities are less in order to be sustainable. Toothbrush set will be given at the front desk. Big hotel. But not crowded. Service staff are helpful. Even help us with the QR code issue from the wechat app for luggage collections.