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Location is everything, and the Xin Ding Hotel has it. We photographers swooned over the views of the lighted Potala Palace with a backdrop of the Himalayas from the 4th-5th floor rooms of the hotel. Aside from the views, the hotel has perfectly fine rooms, an attractive dining area (although the food is not up to the standard of many places in China we visited) and a terrific gift shop, one of the best we found anywhere. If you like custom made jewelry, you will make several visits to this gift shop. Every room comes with a lovely bottle of oxygen- don't laugh. If you feel the least bit of dizziness or altitude sickness coming on, call down to the desk and someone will be right up with the connections to hook you up. Just an hour or so should get you back on your feet. As a side note, kudos to our tour group Smithsonian and Odyssey for designing our visit so that we gradually worked our way up to the strenuous climb up the steps to the Potala Palace over a 3 day period.

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A nice hotel, though it is one of the bigger hotels in Lhasa and a bit impersonal and lacking in character. Its focus seems to be on catering for large groups rather than independent travellers. Had a nice night time view of Potala Palace from our room. You will only get this view from certain rooms, so if you want a room with a view, it's important to get your travel agent to request this when you book. We received very little information about the hotel from our travel agency before it was booked and we were dissapointed to find that the hotel is Chinese owned and staffed by Chinese rather than Tibetans. Though the hotel was okay, we'll stay at a smaller hotel which is owned by locals next time.

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For a place as remote as Lhasa, you wouldn't expect a top-notch hotel, but the Xin Ding is up to the standards of the better hotels in other China cities. Food was good, breakfast was comprehensive, hotel was very attractive, and the views of the Potala Palace are spectacular, especially when it is lit up at night--an amazing sight. The hotel is a long walk from the palace and from the Borkhar (the Tibetan marketplace), but it is in the middle of the Chinese shopping area. At an altitude of 12,000 feet, some people need oxygen, which the hotel supplies in your room for a fee.