Located at the foot of the Mutianyu Great Wall, Beijing Brickyard Boutique Hotel is the originator of Beijing suburban homestays, which not only has great influence in China, but also has gained a certain popularity and reputation in the world. Former U.S. First Lady Michelle Lavaughn Obama once dined here, and the King of the Netherlands, the Prime Minister of Israel, dignitaries at all levels of our country, Hollywood movie stars, NBA players, and famous domestic directors, actors, and singers have all left footprints in the brickyard. At the same time, the Brickyard Hotel has also been selected as the best family hotel and homestay in China by TripAdvisor's "Travelers' Choice".
In ancient times, Huairou was the production center of glazed tiles used in palaces and temples, and in the sixties and seventies of the last century, it turned into a village-run industry. These remote old brickyards are gradually isolated from the surrounding small villages, but they are also naturally quiet. The combination of quaint style and modern art is built on such a simple and simple glazed tile factory, built by Sa Yang and Tang Liang, originally just to live a retirement life in the mountains and forests.
Sa Yang was originally an executive of a Fortune 500 company in the United States, and in 1986, Sa Yang retired early and followed his wife Tang Liang to her hometown of Beijing. Keen on traditional Chinese culture, on the basis of retaining the traditional architectural style, Sayang takes the Great Wall and glazed tiles as the design theme, uses local materials, uses Chinese building materials such as stone, brick, tile, wood, etc., and integrates the baroque color window loft-style houses with high ceilings, and has built such a boutique hotel with a combination of Chinese and Western styles.
The hotel used the original resources to transform the tile kiln into the hotel reception, luggage room, entertainment room and screening room, and connected the various rooms with a porch. The walls are mainly red bricks symbolizing the theme of the Great Wall, and then decorated with colored glazed tiles left behind, making the walls lively and vivid with colorful colors. Most of the rooms are equipped with floor-to-ceiling windows to ensure good daylight and ventilation, allowing guests to feel the freshness and nature of the countryside without leaving the room, and standing on the balcony of the guest room, you can see the chestnut forest.
The Brickyard Hotel has three restaurants, "Xiaoyuan", "Xiaolumian" and "Daluguan", which are famous for their fresh ingredients and traditional cooking methods. Among them, the predecessor of the "Xiaoyuan" Western restaurant was a primary school, which was forced to close due to lack of students, and the "Xiaoyuan" retained the original classrooms, tables and chairs of the primary school, and the flagpole on the playground would raise the national flag from time to time. For those interested in farming, they can also pick vegetables from the hotel's own vegetable patch, which offers fresh fruits and vegetables such as lettuce, rosemary, thyme, cherry radish, leeks, parsley, and mustard in one season.
Consisting of a 25-room main building and 9 luxury villas scattered throughout the village, the Brickyard Boutique Hotel is suitable for couples, couples, families, families and team-building activities. It should be noted that the hotel booking fee will fluctuate with the off-peak season, holidays or normal times, the per capita unit price of the villa for group travel is lower than the reservation of the double room or standard room, the villa check-in time is 15:00-18:00 every day, and the fee for late 18:00 needs to be paid 200-500 yuan. There may be insects and ants in the kang room in the villa, and you need to be prepared to prevent insects when you move in.
