Beijing's Tianhong Plaza Hotel in this city's version of the Silicon Valley offers business travelers, families and couples easy access to express roads, Tiananmen Square, and the modern Summer Palace and traditional Chinese shopping arcades. Beijing's university and research institutes surround the hotel. Guests stroll through the hotel's front door into a three story atrium filled with trees, chairs and couches, and then browse through shops that beckon visitors to enter. They also can enjoy 24 hour room service; Cantonese and Sichuan cuisines, show kitchen, live seafood tanks and karaoke in the hotel's Four Seasons; international cuisine in the Bistro Atrium; Japanese barbecue, sushi and sashimi in Robata Tei; and live music, billiards and spirits in Rumours Bar.

The hotel also features a fitness facility, steam bath, sauna, massages and complimentary use of a nearby health club; business center; high speed Internet access; and ballroom, banquet, meeting, wedding and catering services. Hotel staff members are more than happy to help visitors plan their sightseeing itineraries.

Guests can restock their room refrigerators by visiting the hotel's grocery and then call upon the hotel for transportation to and from Capital International Airport 45 minutes away.

The 18 story Beijing hotel features 394 guestrooms and 31 suites with modern design and muted chocolate colors, complimentary high speed Internet, shared bathrooms, cable/satellite TVs, minibars, safes and slippers.

Managed by Radisson Hotels & Resorts, the Tianhong Plaza Hotel is a good stop if business travelers, families and couples seek high rise accommodations and a location close to major freeways, commercial establishments and tourist attractions.