Sijishan Resort

The hotel is right next to Jianshanling Great Wall entrance. Perfect for that. It isn't near the Water Town, but it has its own laid back and quiet charm. There are decent facilities but the pool is sub-par. The staff, especially the lobby receptionist lady, were lovely. Breakfast was a little disappointing, perhaps that's because there weren't many guests there when we stayed.

I loved my stay here. The staff are super friendly and go out of their way to assist you. The rooms are lovely. It is super close to and has a view of the Great Wall (both 金山岭Jinshanling and 司马台Simatai). Breakfast was included. You can also see the Great Wall from the resort. There is a great hiking trail on the property and hot springs as well as other activities. Any issues we had were resolved promptly and professionally. We had so much fun here and I hope to come back someday. We took the train from Beijing North to Gubeiko and then a taxi the rest of the way. We sadly got scammed by the driver, but the hotel helped arrange a much more reasonable taxi for us when we left. I recommend contacting them should you need to be picked up or dropped off.

The rooms were super basic and the beds were hard for the very high price. The staff seemed astonished we wanted to check in in the evening and sent us to what seemed like their spare apartment. It said “foreigner” on the key - why are there separate rooms for different nationalities? The advertisement says there is a hot spring but when we were ready to jump in we were told there is none. Staff seemed totally chaotic and overwhelmed. Got balance - breakfast was ok. Overalls very disappointing experience. Will not go back again for sure.

We booked two nights at this hotel. What we liked was that it was very spacious, and also really clean. Also the airconditioning was easy to setup and worked really well so we could sleep good! It was also very nice that the hotel has this free shuttle to the trainstation in Gubeikou: they didn’t tell us about it though, I had to find out myself when I asked them to call us a taxi. I do have to point out that this place was a little weird. We were here in off-season, so I understand that maybe some services/amneties are not in use, but at some moments we felt a bit unwelcome. They promote their café with specialty coffee in their photos, but this was closed most of the time. We managed to order coffee two times, but the staff acted as if this was really a hastle for them. Also, while the room was big and spacious, the water in the shower took a very very long time to get warm and even when it did it switched a lot between hot and cold. Locationwise, not the best: there’s no restaurants around. Only one other homestay (25-30 min walk) offered food - that was great. Also, there is no didi here, so you have to find your way around asking local people to take you somewhere and pay them. Maybe the hotel offers this as well? I don’t know, they didn’t tell us. The jinshanling Great Wall is beautiful, you can reach it by foot in about 1h. In short, it was okay. But really too expensive for what you get.

Absolutely loving this place! The vibes is totally awesome and a nice place to chill with lots of activities to do, though unfortunately we only had one night here as we only planned to hike Jin Shan Ling, but we will definitely be back for more next round! Service and hospitality is top notch and absolutely grateful to have such a nice bunch of staff who were super friendly and warm. The hotel was near Jin Shan Ling (about 5 mins drive) and they even offered to drive and pick us to and fro the hotel and Jin Shan Ling. Within the hotel, they were concerned with us feeling cold so they ferried us to our room as our room was a few mins walk away, and fetched us from our room to the lobby when we wanted to hang out at their chill areas there which turned out to be really relaxing. They served super sumptuous meals including a hot pot set which was great for winter and even offered us complimentary dishes as part of winter solstice. One of the staff named Henry Zhang gave us a tour at their exhibition centre showing the various scenic areas in 四季山, 金山岭 and 北京城! We enjoyed the experience sharing from him and the explanation to the various attraction sites, appreciate the sweet gesture as he didn’t actually had to do that but he did so! Room was absolutely great and spacious, extremely clean and comfortable with heaters inside the restrooms which was super nice. It was a good night rest for us. Breakfast was their local dishes which was great too and super filling (buns, eggs, porridge, dough sticks, specialty cold dishes). All in all, we had no complains from the time we checked in, super loved the experience and it definitely make us want to book another trip here again soon! 特别喜欢这里的服务，在这里住的很舒服也非常开心。好美的地方和人，令我都马上想在订下一趟旅程来这里了！好可惜我们只住了一晚因为我们本来只是想爬金山岭，如果能待多几天那该多好。。简直完美! ❤️

Beautiful hotel. Close to Gubei Water Town and the Great Wall. Was loads of fun staying here.