We stayed in the Renaissance last week while in Beijing. We changed to this hotel for the weekend after staying in the Presidential Plaza. This hotel was a dream. Its lovely, clean, the beds are comfy, the rooms are big (really big), and the bathrooms are really nice. The health club is clean and modern, and the indoor pool is also nice. My husband and I got foot massages in our room which were also really nice, inexpensive, and including tip!

The staff here was quite fluent in English and easy to communicate with.

There is only caveat with which I recommend this hotel. Location. This hotel is in the embassy district, the area with the huge ex-pat scene. Its not downtown Beijing, but taxis are so cheap it didn’t matter for us. V’ha meyvin yavin: this hotel is extremely shomer shabbos friendly!

This was a heavenly hotel with many important features. Wonderful beds, lots of strong hot water, great facilities including gym and pool, wonderful staff, especially Fred the head concierge who made life easier for us, and reliable broadband, essential for the business traveller.
The food and drink was good throughout the various restaurants and bars.
Being a new-ish hotel it was clean, tidy and had excellent facilities.
Excellent.

My wife and I stayed here for four days recently while touring China and Japan. I travel for business in Asia periodically.

First the positives:
-- Clearly a new property/recent renovation - overall in good condition.
-- Large room, with Marriott's new bedding that I expect from stays in the states
-- There is a Starbucks immediately next to the hotel
-- Nice dining option right across the street called "Bellagio"

Negatives:
-- About a 25-35 minute drive from most sights you want to see (about $8-12 USD per trip each way) depending on traffic.
-- Cab drivers do not know this hotel - at all. Due to it being a new hotel I think....if you leave the hotel by cab you MUST take a card from the front desk that you can give to drivers.
-- Getting from the airport is tough - the hotel web site does not have a way for you to print the hotel name and location in Chinese characters - and none of the drivers know the hotel. We had to drive to a near by, better known hotel and the front desk there helped us get to the Renaissance. For this reason alone I would not send co-workers or friends to this hotel.
-- The staff's English is not up to par with other hotels I have stayed at in mainland China. And they are a bit aloof.
-- At 4am one night a loud alarm clock in the unoccupied room next to us went off and it took 1.5 hours to resolve with the front desk clerk who seemed completely annoyed to have to help us.

So overall - solid physical condition, but hard to get to and staff is weak for a Marriott. Pricing was OK.

If going back to Beijing I would choose another location.