Hotel Kapok is Beijing's only boutique-style hotel.

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The Ctrip partners initially owned 55% of Home Inns, with a state-owned hotel-management outfit in Beijing holding 45%.

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During the bus ride from Beijing airport to the Shangri-La Hotel, the tour guide kept mentioning housing prices.

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The bus tour guide, during the ride from the Beijing airport to the Shangri-La hotel, kept mentioning house prices.

FORBES: China's Mental Default Position

People now have more money to spend, and some of them go to the new Shangri-La-run hotel at the top of the China World Tower, Beijing's tallest building.

BBC: China to address economic imbalance

They flagged down a flat-bed rickshaw driver, who pedaled them and their gear to the Beijing Hotel.

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