Need to know

Rooms

110, including 22 suites.

Rates

$160–$189, including buffet breakfast and tax. Service is extra at 15 per cent.

Check-out

Midday, but may be flexible, subject to availability.

Facilities

Gym, garden Jacuzzi, free WiFi throughout. In rooms: flatscreen TV, iPod dock, minibar with free soft drinks, free bottled water. Nintendo Wiis and DVD players are available on request.

Children

Cribs are free for babies; older kids can stay in extra beds for $37 a night. There’s a children’s menu in the restaurant.

Also

Several rooms are set aside for smokers.

In the know

Our favourite rooms

Eight is traditionally lucky in China, so ask for a room on the eighth floor to guarantee good fortune (or at very least an excellent view of the city). Hotel G’s bedrooms are astonishingly spacious for a city like Beijing, and all come with king-sized beds, and dramatic shadow-stencilled walls softened with velvety purple-paisley sofas and deep downy grey carpet. Even the lowest tier Good Rooms are the size of a normal city suite. Added extravagance in the Great Rooms comes by way of a bath tub to supplement the rain shower, and the Greater Rooms have the businessy benefit of an executive alcove decorated in crimson.

Packing tips

Few Beijing cab drivers speak English; a translation crib-sheet and a map to point at will always help you get where you’re going.

Also

The wellness menu provides food and drink suggestions to help alleviate typical traveller’s torments such as jetlag, insomnia and cramps, and the wide-ranging pillow menu ¬– which includes such enticing options as Glamorous, Grumpy, Genial, Guilty and Gaily – allows you to select something snug to sleep on.

Food & drink

Hotel restaurant

Scarlett and Morio are G’s two dining options at G, and a third – a Tibetan-themed rooftop affair – is on its way. Scarlett is the 80s-born lovechild of a modern English gastropub and Studio 54, with wine-racks filling one wall and shimmering Murano red tiles another. Mediterranean tapas, cold cuts and cheeses are served throughout the day, and don’t miss the specials on the blackboard. Morio resembles a laquered Bento box – appropriate, given its Japanese fine-dining menu. The stewed ox tongue has a cult following. The jet black furniture and wasabi-green suede walls create a moody atmosphere for sushi-dining à deux.

Dress code

First-date glamour for the girls – start with the heels and work up. Men should combine Italian tailored shirts with sharp jackets and designer jeans.

Top table

Bag a discretely screened window-table in Morio or slide into a seductive low-lit booth at Scarlett.

Last orders

Scarlett’s mixologists are up round the clock, but the kitchen staff need their sleep, so dinner service stops at 8.30pm.

Room service

There’s a full 24-hour menu.

Hotel bar

After dinner in Scarlett, the lights go down and the DJs turn up. There’s a wide wine selection, including a number of Grand crus, and an amenably mingling crowd of city suits and swinging hipsters.

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Hotel G

7 Workers Stadium West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China