The breakfast is amazing… Good for one night, or two.

Beds are ok. Breakfast is Chinese tourist class and best to go down after 8 am.

They will charge you for it. Breakfast is included and will be in the restaurant next door: Chinese breakfast (but also toasts and cooked eggs available)

The breakfast consists of tasteless Chinese food, the AC doesn’t work properly and the staff aren’t polite.

Breakfast spread is good, considering this is quite a remote part of Tibet.

Very pleasant and helpful staff, excellent rooms (with creative and lovely decor), decent breakfast.

Breakfast buffet has good selection of sauteed vegetables, eggs. Elevator!

Comfortable beds, great ambiance, immaculate bathrooms, and fantastic breakfasts.

Breakfast options were mostly eastern (Chinese, Indian, Napali) foods (noodles, rice, boiled eggs, veggies, etc).

Location is not great - 5 min taxi to Tashilumpo etc
Service is basically good 
Room is basically clean
Breakfast was OK - mostly Chinese and oily
I would give this three stars, except this was the one place we stayed in Tibet (13 day tour) which had excellent mattresses! !

After getting fresh, rush to the second floor dinning area for buffet dinner.

though the bathroom was very dated), restaurant on top floor we managed to order food via GoogleTranslate (as we don't speak Mandarin), breakfast was OK, in a big room like a banquet hall.

It's clean, comfortable and the bed was great.

The room is clean and the bed is very comfortable.

The rooms were a good size and the beds comfortable.

but the beds were comfortable and room was relatively clean.

The hotel was clean and beds very comfortable.

-Rooms were clean and beds were very comfortable.

Beds were very comfortable, we had a great sleep.

Pros

Comfortable bed ( we slept well) and colorful, cozy rooms with little seating area for two.

Or maybe even one of the most comfortable bed I've had in any hotel.

Comfortable bed, nice decorations, good variety of breakfast.

Comfortable beds, beautifully decorated rooms (looks like you are staying in Tibet) and the nicest beds we've had in 15 days of touring Tibet.

Beautifully decorated Tibetan rooms, comfortable beds, good showers (especially after going to EBC) Breakfasts are standard fare, mainly Tibetan with some western choices.

The beds are comfortable, there is air conditioning in the room and a decent place to eat on the 5th floor.

Comfy bed & clean with all the basic needs & wifi available.

After roughing it out at EBC, a hot shower and comfortable bed were most welcome.

The rooms were clean and bathrooms were neat & functional.

Our room was clean, AC and WiFi worked, and there was a full breakfast.

Clean rooms, free wifi with good speed and good bed.

Rooms very clean and heat and hot water worked great.

Beautifully decorated hotel with clean rooms in city center location.

The rooms were clean and the heat was reliable (not always so in this part of the world).

The rooms are clean and nice, with comfortable beds.

Our room was clean and warm, beds comfortable, bathroom with hot and cold water, free wifi.

Strange smell in bathroom which was unpleasant.

I'm only bugbear is the smokers everywhere in the hotel, and they obviously don't care about indoor smoking.

It was warm in January, hot water was available 24 hrs and I got a non-smoking room that didn't have any bad smells.

So the stench of smoke while you sleep was uncomfortable.

Only negative is hallways -- ripped up dirty rugs, very smelly.

In the first room the shower drain emptied up out of the drain into the bathroom; in the second, the shower sides emptied into the bathroom so in both cases the bathroom was wet.

Smoking is allowed in the hallway so the corridors smell of smoke .

Many smell of cigarettes since smoking is allowed in a Tibetan rooms.

I did not like the green rubber bath mates on the bathroom floor which smell bad.

While showering halfway, the water suddenly turned scalding hot which made it pretty much impossible to bathe without getting first degree burns.

nothing fancy

the restaurant attached to the place is very good too, ordered the stirred fried pork

only downside is it is far from town - you need your driver

be careful if you sleep opposite the air conditioning and blowing hot air, it dried up my nose and i had problem breathing in the middle of the night.

but it smelt awful so I didn't stay, friends said the chips were good but the rest wasn't great.

Without a goose neck, sewer smells will come up.

The public spaces isn't filled with cigarette smoke.

There is not much in this town, except for a place to stop and rest.

Not many restaurants nearby hence you might need to go to the town area or walk down to the right from the entrance about 700m and look for food.

Is a little out of town so can be more difficult to get around.

Do note that the hotel is not located in the town centre.

If you would like to explore Shigatse by foot, the hotel is not located near the town's attractions

In central part of town if you wanted to wander to shops/restaurants.

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Don't they know - professionals use duct tape:-) Anyway, the spray was minimal and only mildly annoying.

but the breakfast room was dark and suffocating and not at all pleasant and  the breakfast was poor.

The room had an en-suite bathroom with hot water and a heating unit on the wall which is vital as it gets very cold at night in Tibet.

The second night the A/C didn't work and it was pretty miserable!

The corridors are very dark and in the morning the lighting is set off by motion sensors

After complaining to the front desk, miraculously power was restored to our heater

This time the story was that the heater was broken -

Variety of food was poor, food was cold, and we also find out that it is not easy to eat sunny side up eggs with chopsticks 😊.

Restaurant food was cold and everybody was sick.

Despite the impressiveness of the Potala Palace replica near the front door, it's the cold lobby and overwhelmed staff I'll remember.

At least the cold water shower was welcomed!

though they hadn't been washed in months + food was cold, so maybe try other places in town for breakfast [though food hygiene doesn't seem to be one of Tibet's strengths & this is probably as good as its gets]  or bring your own with you.

The Tashi Choten Hotel is near these landmarks: Nianchu River, Gongjue Linka Palace, Natang Temple, Lama Palace, Naku Temple, Xialu Temple, Nadang Temple, Luozi Peak, Ribu Temple and Kangbala Mountain

Public area restrooms atrocious with overpowering smell of urine emanating into corridors including directly outside restaurant.

On one stay, our hallway was littered with construction trash from work being done on some of the rooms.

Corridors leading to rooms are long and mostly unlit.

but they are at the very end of the corridor - which isn't much use.

Not such a big deal except for the hallway lights are activated by motion sensors that didn't all work - kind of a problem at night.

The hallways and public areas were very poorly lit.

however, the corridor's carpet shows some wear and tear; mind you the hotel is only a few years old.

Its a huge place - the first room we were shown was probably a hundred yards down a long corridor and round the other side of the building - very nice

but the condition at this hotel is poor to average.

Late getting set up, dirty crazed plates, no one plugged in the coffee urn, poor service, etc.

The wifi is poor and once connected cannot access many sites

but a long way away from the lifts and with very poor wifi reception.

Unfortunately due to the poor cleanliness standards we would not stay here again.

I agree on the comments re poor cleanliness as there was a mat of  hair in the shower and a hair on the sheets of the bed.

Our room was clean and big. It was warm and when I asked for it they turned on the hot water (i think they just put it on in the evenings!)

The hotel is clean and the rooms and corridors are spacious.

The room was clean enough, there were strange spots that seemed untouched in the bathroom.

The rooms were clean and the hotel was quiet.

The hotel is very big and caters for a Chinese market, that saying, the room was clean and spacious.

Lots to like - very comfortable, warm, rooms are clean & well furnished in a heavy & elaborate Chinese style & and staff are friendly

It was quiet at night, even overlooking the road.

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Breakfast was a bit chaotic and has a lot of Asian options

Breakfast is only chinese not possible to have a black coffee and the restaurant is freezing cold you have to eat with your parkas - you can smoke everywhere even elevators!!!

The hotel’s clientele seems to be mostly Chinese and the breakfast is understandably geared mostly to them, so it was hard boiled eggs and pretty awful bread for us!

but pathetic buffet breakfast with no English speaking staff.

Although there were some bacon, eggs, bread,

The breakfast was a disaster, 95% Chinese, and hardly anything for the Western palate except eggs and bacon.

Inexplicably, the buffet starts at 0700 and 0730 on Sundays.

The only downside if you are a westerner is that the bulk of the hotel's clients are Chinese, hence the breakfast offering mainly caters for that group and English is spoken by only a few of the staff -

Breakfast was mostly Chinese, and the dining area stank of cigarette smoke (as with most hotels in China, anyway).

For breakfast, only a corner of a vast, cold restaurant was working with a limited selection of dishes available (not identified) and no

And don't bother order anything that is not presented at the buffet table.

Breakfast was served on the 3rd floor in the morning.

The last morning we were checking out to return to Lhasa we ate breakfast at the same restaurant on 8th floor.

Obviously when you start to touch more deeply the service level, the restaurant, the breakfast, you come back to the very disappointing chinese style approach, with very few people in the staff speaking a word in english and other fall of customer attention.

We were the only western guests at breakfast - finally got some instant coffee and found plenty to eat.

Had to make do with 2 slices of white bread and no coffee as the hotel doesn’t serve black coffee.

but just a reminder, bring your own coffee.

Only milky coffee staff couldn't understand black coffee would be nice.

I changed to the so called coffee shop on the 8th floor where I was successful to order some steak.

We asked if they had anything similar even plain black coffee.

Room was very comfortable and bathroom was great.

Rooms were comfortable and clean with complementary water.

Our room was large with a comfortable king size bed.

Apart from being clean, well furnished, comfortable and spacious, the hotel supplies oxygen directly to the rooms in the evening.

Room's hardware is the best in the city, comfortable beds, hot water, heating (evening till morning), no power cuts, and next to a Chinese department store.

but travel is all about new experiences anyway not staying in your hometown comfort zone.

The rooms are comfortable and well organized.

The lobby is opulent and the rooms provide a very comfortable stay, what with a spa-like bathroom and heavenly beds.

This hotel has the best room-and for about 1/3 of the price I paid in Lhasa-The bed is very comfortable.

Large rooms overlooking unsightly buildings and the barren mountains, which are probably covered in snow in winter.

The entrance and lobby featured Tibetan style decoration, and rooms are large and clean.

The standard room we got was large enough.

Communication was very difficult as virtually no English is spoken, which was surprising in a modern 4 star hotel.

A swanky hotel with modern amenities, considering that it is in a city about 250 km from Lhasa.

Modern - fairly new from the look of things.

Not only was the hotel modern, clean and nicely decorated, the staff were helpful and polite.

A great modern hotel and room with 2 three quarter beds, expansive shower, great nights sleep.

The rooms are clean and provide plenty of closets and counter space in which to place your belongings.

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