We passed this hotel many times when living nearby for several years. On a return visit, we decided to try it out. Not bad. Not great. Convenient to Wudaokou and Liudaokou and the Subway lines 13 and 15 aren't too far away. Definitely an older hotel but fairly well maintained. The big test though was how the hotel responded to something out-of-the-ordinary: after we checked-in, the embarrassed bell hop told us: "You should know...we don't have any...water". "That's OK", we said, brandishing the bottles of Nongfu Spring Water that we always carry. "No," he said, "We don't have *any* water. No showers, no toilets..." That got our attention, especially after our long flight to get there. Turns out, there was planned maintenance going-on from 8:00am to 8:00pm and there *would* be water in our future, but not just now at 1:00pm. It's great that the hotel was maintaining their water supply, but...this was a planned interruption and no attempt had been made to notify us, either by e-mail, phone, or during the check-in. Someone who looked like a manager was just standing there...looking. Or, if no notification (a sign that was posted by the elevator doesn't count as notification) couldn't provisions have been made ? Arrangements to take showers at a nearby hotel ? Or only turn off 1/2 the hotel at one time ? Or provide buckets of water to fill the toilets ? The mind reels with possibilities! But no provisions at the Mengxi (which means, loosely, River of Dreams. Ah, rivers, water ! we were dreaming of it) The bell boy was a real trooper, though. He made some calls and found a place for us to take showers and wrote instructions to give to the taxi driver to take us there and bring us back. We never found out what this "place" was because we just took a nap and woke up at 5:00 to find the water running again. No real harm done, but darn annoying. Come on Mengxi, our arrival wasn't a surprise...and there were other people staying at the hotel, so *be prepared*. Or at least alert us so we could have made a change…