Hilton Shijiazhuang Hotel - an international hotel with a dignified atmosphere

When you come to Guojizhuang, you can't miss this high-rise hotel located on a landmark building in the city center. Hilton has been open for 11 years. Thanks to its excellent location, although it is large with nearly 600 rooms, it has always been doing good business. The Hebei Museum is just across the street from the hotel, and there are many delicious restaurants around it. It is really convenient. . The first floor of the hotel is the lobby. To check in, you need to take the elevator directly to the high lobby on the 31st floor. Above the lobby are the hotel rooms. The executive lounge is on the highest 53rd floor. Although you need to change elevators once to go downstairs to the guest rooms, you can go directly from the guest rooms to the wellness center on the 29th floor. . However, the decoration style of this Hilton hotel can be said to be quite ugly, and it is not because of its age. Don’t you see that the Jianye Le Méridien, which also opened in 2013, is still at the forefront of fashion, and even when you move in, you feel like you are staying in a new hotel? . Therefore, this has become a hotel that I am too lazy to record with a camera. The public areas are really unremarkable. I guess it is due to the limitation of the owner’s aesthetic taste. It is very stately. . Perhaps because of this, the hotel's business is booming. When you come out of the elevator on the 31st floor, the lobby is filled with a strong smell of garlic crayfish, which comes from the all-day restaurant on the 30th floor. Hotels that can afford to open a buffet at noon are indeed rare nowadays, but this also makes this lobby not only ugly, but also smelly. Even the view from the floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the city was blocked by the lowered curtains, but it is commendable that they actually used real 🌸. . There was a pre-inquiry call before check-in, but after communication, I found that the hotel's operating budget is very tight, which is reflected in all aspects, such as the upgrade of Diamond Card members and the products of the executive lounge. This is probably the hotel in China where it is most difficult to get a free suite upgrade. Not only that, even for a corner room, you have to "ask the leader and make a special application." This was when I had been upgraded to a corner room by the system a few days in advance (later the date was changed and the upgrade was no longer available). So if even I can't get a suite at this hotel, you can forget about it. . The corner room is nominally 62 square meters, with floor-to-ceiling windows on two sides, which are indeed enough to overlook the panoramic view of International Villa, but to be honest, there is nothing to see outside. The lighting design of the room itself is extremely dim, but fortunately the excellent lighting during the day makes up for this. As an old hotel, the air conditioning is very powerful, and it also provides a turndown service in the evening, which are all worthy of praise. . The welcome gift was good, two bottles of domestic Voss and a fruit plate, a mini bar with a mix of Twinings and domestic tea bags, free water, a little less than 2 bottles, and a full mini fridge but charged. . The overall color tone and maintenance of the room are very old. There is a luggage rack and wardrobe on the left hand side of the door, a minibar, a bathroom and a bedroom on the right, a sofa by the window, and a small round table for working, but the chair is too high and cannot be adjusted. Another thing to complain about is that the wifi in the room is so bad that it is difficult to upload pictures and the network was disconnected several times. . The bathtub and basin are classic Kohler models, without bath salts, and there is no brand on the faucet. The shower room is quite spacious, and the Grohe shower feels good, with a footstool design. The hair dryer was poor, the sliding door was not working properly, and the toilet was not working properly. . Overall, this place is really old-fashioned, but it feels like the owner has not considered renovating it.