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When we first checked into the Yongdingmen Hotel, Lydian took a video of the room to show how clean it was. Keep in mind that the video was taken in 2011, so the hotel may have changed since that time. The Yongdingmen is conveniently located in Beijing as long as you're willing to walk. Beijing isn't a very friendly city for non-walkers (there are lots of really steep stairs at almost every tourist ...
In this video, we check into the Yongdingmen Hotel. We'd just flown into Beijing from Seattle and it had been a long time since we'd slept, but Lydian goes ahead and talks about what she sees as John takes care of the bill. There's a restaurant on the bottom level of the Yongdingmen and the staff was friendly and helpful overall. The hotel was relatively clean, though basic, but it had everything that we ...
The Yongdingmen Hotel was our "home" while we were in Beijing. In this video, Lydian gives a quick tour of our triple room that we stayed in for 15 days in 2011. Though the beds were a little hard for our taste, the room was relatively clean and it was nice having a separate space for Lydian in our room. There was a restaurant downstairs that served some good dishes that included some exotic ...
The air currents in Beijing are perfect for kite flying. One of my favorite memories of Beijing was walking through Yongdingmen Square on the way back to the hotel (The Yongdingmen Hotel) in the middle of the night while locals were flying kites hundreds of kites with blinking lights and long tails flowing in the wind above us. Toward the end of our trip, after watching everyone else flying kites and ...