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Red Lantern House
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| The best and most charming in-hutong area Chinese Courtyard Hostel in the heart of downtown Beijing... 100% traditional and unique. This business is actually the first courtyard hostel open to travelers in Beijing, not newly built copies... We like to call it 'a slice of heaven everybody can afford'
See and experience the real core life of Beijing and stay in our Beijing traditional courtyard house within your budget. In the sense of home, Red lantern House is the closest while you are traveling.
Behind the busy streets of Central Beijing, Red Lantern House is quietly located in the best part of the largest preserved Hutong area of downtown Beijing, which used to be the homes of royal and noble families. The main building was built in the eighteenth century in a traditional courtyard house attached to the famous Zhengjue Temple. This hostel aims to give it’s guests an opportunity to experience Chinese architecture and culture with local style by actually staying with a local family who provides guests with affordable private and shared rooms of many types and styles.
To meet increasing demand of more and more international guests of different requirements, two more locations have been put into operation and the fourth is under renovation which will be fully ready for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Red Lantern House now consists of the Main Building, West Yard, East Yard and Temple Court. They are all located in the same neighborhood and main street. More choices of different accommodation are available to suit your needs and tastes. No matter you are traveling on your own, as couples, whole family, as a group, the old or young, and even disabled (we have a handicap-accessible location), you will surely enjoy yourselves comfortably in a new home.
This hostel actually is a restored heritage home but features all the comforts of a modern home with the ambiance and feeling of traditional Chinese decor.
We have excellent facilities and our services are of more than a hostel standard. The uniqueness of our hostel is never easily found even you are staying in a five star hotel. This is why within a very short period it has become widely accepted as one of the best hostels and gained excellent reputation among guests from all over the world.
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Map (Beta Version)
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Things To Do
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| The services we provide are easily within your budget and time:
-travel information of Beijing and beyond
-general assistance in English
-flight confirmation
-postcards and letter sending
-interpretation
-bicycle hire
-laundry and mending
-hair dryer
-CD burning
-trips to the Great Wall at all sections including the Great Wall at Mutianyu, Badaling, Simatai and Jinshanling.
-tours and activities including the Beijing City Tour (Forbidden City & Tian'anmen Square, Summer Palace and Temple of Heaven), Hutong Tour, Beijing Opera, Chinese Acrobatics and Kungfu show.
-ticket booking including train, flight (both international and domestic) and ferry.
In our communal room or in our roofed courtyard you can enjoy DVD showings, internet access and all drinks at very good prices ( For one US dollar you can get two and half cold and crispy large beers, as well as hot drinks. Winter Recommendation: ginger tea to warm up)
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Directions
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| FROM THE BEIJING AIRPORT: take shuttle bus Line 2 to the last stop; the Xidan Aviation Building (the shuttle bus terminal). Get bus No 22 just in front of the Aviation Building beside the main street and get off at XinJieKou stop (should be the 6th Stop). Then walk back about 100 meters along the street, find the 'Dairy Queen' sign and turn into the small alleyway beside the DQ about 100 meters eastward, you will see ‘Red Lantern House’ on your left hand side with Chinese traditional wooden doors and two red lanterns on it.
FROM BEIJING CENTRAL RAILWAY STATION: take Subway (Beijing Zhan) and then get off at Jishuitan Station where you will take exit C. Turn left outside of exit C and then walk South about 15 minutes.
Or you can take bust No 808 from Beijing Central Railway Station and get off at XinJieKou stop, FROM BEIJING WEST RAILWAY STATION: take bus No 47 and get off at XinJieKou, walk back about 150 meters, find the 'Dairy Queen’ |
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