Crowne Plaza Xi'an Weiyang is IHG's modern business hotel in Xi'an's Weiyang district: 268 rooms and suites, 1,100 square metres of meeting space, an indoor pool, and Daming Palace on the doorstep.
The name is worth unpacking first, because there are two Crowne Plazas in Xi'an and they are nowhere near each other. This is the one branded by IHG as Crowne Plaza Xi'an Weiyang, the Chinese-language 西安广成皇冠假日酒店, standing in Building 1 of the Guangcheng International Center complex on the north side of the city. It is a different hotel from the much older 228-metre Crowne Plaza on Zhuque Road in the southern part of the city, and booking pages will happily mix the two up if you search by the Chinese brand name alone.
What this one is, on the evidence of the hotel's own material and IHG's listing, is a purpose-built answer to a specific question: where do you put a business hotel that has to be close to the north of Xi'an, easy to reach from the high-speed rail and the airport, and large enough to take a company off-site of three hundred people? It opened in 2024 as the first international-brand hotel for the Gansu New Century Investment Holding Group, which owns the complex, and it has already picked up IHG's Golden Dragon and Silver Dragon awards.
Where is the Crowne Plaza Xi'an Weiyang, and how do you get there?
The address is No. 6 West Section of the North Second Ring Road, Guangcheng International Center Building 1, Weiyang District, Xi'an, Shaanxi. On a map the hotel sits at roughly 34.3093 degrees north, 108.9418 degrees east, which puts it on the northern ring road in the north-west quadrant of the city, just outside the old city walls.
Getting in is unusually easy by the standards of Xi'an. The Xi'an North coach station is effectively across the road, with the hotel's own brochure putting it at 50 metres and a map measurement giving about 200 metres as the crow flies. Line 2 of the metro reaches the area through Daminggong West station, around 700 metres in a straight line and about 1.1 kilometres on foot according to the hotel.
The distances below are measured straight-line from the hotel's map coordinates, because road distances in this part of Xi'an run considerably longer. Where the hotel publishes its own figure, it is given alongside.
| Reference point | Straight line from the hotel | The hotel's own figure |
|---|---|---|
| Xi'an North coach station | 0.2 km | 50 m |
| Daminggong West station, Metro Line 2 | 0.7 km | 1.1 km on foot |
| Daming Palace National Heritage Park | 2.8 km | 2.4 km |
| Hancheng Lake Park | 2.8 km | 2.6 km |
| Shenglong shopping plaza | not measured | 1.8 km |
| Xi'an North high-speed rail station | 7.5 km | 7.6 km |
| Xi'an Railway Station | 5.3 km | 3.7 km |
| The Bell Tower | 5.4 km | 6.2 km |
| Guangren Temple | 4.9 km | 6.1 km |
| Xi'an Xianyang International Airport | 23.2 km | 22 km |
Two things to draw out of that table. First, the airport and Xi'an North station figures published by the hotel line up with the map within rounding, so you can plan on roughly 22 to 23 kilometres to the airport and a little over 7 kilometres to the high-speed rail. Second, the published figure for Xi'an Railway Station does not reconcile with the map in either direction, so treat 5 kilometres in a straight line, and rather more by road, as the realistic number. Allow 25 minutes by taxi for the old city and the Bell Tower; our guide to getting around a Chinese city covers the practical options.
Note that the nearest interchange for Line 10 is Xi'an Gongda Wudelu, which is nearly 5 kilometres away, so this is a Line 2 hotel and not a two-line interchange hotel.
What you walk into: the lobby and the lounge
The entrance lobby is on the first floor, and it is deliberately the busiest and loudest room in the building. That is the point. The design language is what IHG calls modern business traveller: a wide floor plate, a ceiling that is high enough to absorb a crowd, and seating scattered in clusters rather than lined up in rows.
The lobby bar works the same way. Coffee, tea, cocktails and pastries run all day, and the hotel puts out a themed afternoon tea with live music in season, which is a more useful place to sit with a laptop than the guest rooms if you are on a call that does not need silence.
Floor by floor, the building runs as follows: the lobby on level 1, the all-day restaurant on level 2, the Century Ballroom and the boardroom on level 3, the Chinese restaurant on level 4, the executive lounge, fitness centre and games rooms on level 5, and the indoor swimming pool in the basement. Getting to the pool or the gym needs your room card, so ask for one that opens the recreational floors at check-in if you plan to use them.
The rooms: a new-generation Crowne Plaza built for working
There are 268 rooms and suites across 25 floors, and the ratio matters: roughly 145 standard rooms and 105 premium rooms, with the remainder suites. IHG's booking engine labels the two main tiers Standard and Premium, while the hotel's own Chinese brochure calls them Superior and Deluxe.
The Superior tier is 40 square metres and is split between 61 king rooms and 84 twin rooms. The Premium tier is 50 square metres and splits 72 king rooms and 33 twins.
What every room in both tiers shares is the work setup, and this is where the hotel is honest about what it is. A height-adjustable desk with a power point, an ergonomic chair, a high-speed wired and wireless connection, a smart room control panel, a wide bathroom, and a separate space that is genuinely a workspace rather than a chair pushed against a dressing table. The palette is warm wood and off-white with occasional deep green or teal upholstery.
The rooms on the upper floors have the better view, over the northern part of the city and towards the mountain backdrop. If the view matters to you, ask for a high floor when booking and confirm it on arrival.
Suites: the One Bedroom Suite and the Royal Suite
The One Bedroom Suite is about 60 square metres, with a living room of roughly 20 square metres in front of the master bedroom. The layout is clean: living space, bedroom, a luggage room, a main bathroom and a second bathroom. Bedding is King Koil, which matters more for business travel than most hotel marketing would suggest. Power switching in the suite is sensor-controlled.
The Royal Suite is 112 square metres and is the one to book if a delegation is travelling with a principal who needs a room to work in rather than sleep in. Immediately on entering, the second bathroom, with its toilet and basin, is on the right; the luggage room and the main bathroom are on the left. It carries a 55-inch television, a height-adjustable desk and an ergonomic chair, a multi-function sofa area and an open wardrobe, a Bluetooth speaker, a Nespresso capsule coffee machine, high-speed wireless with wireless screen casting, and benefits in the Crown Plaza executive lounge. IHG's booking engine also lists a Presidential Suite above this tier.
The Crown Plaza Lounge and the executive floor
The executive lounge sits on the fifth floor and is the most pleasant room in the hotel, whether or not you are entitled to use it. Floor-to-ceiling glass gives it the city view, and the outdoor corridor along the edge is the place to sit with a tea and watch the light go. IHG lists a complimentary cocktail hour as part of the hotel's regular offering, and the lounge serves afternoon tea as well.
Eating: Zhenweixuan all-day dining and the Zhenshanlou Chinese restaurant
The all-day restaurant, Zhenweixuan, is on the second floor and does three jobs: breakfast, a seafood buffet and a Western-style menu for lunch and dinner. The concept is deliberately broad, world food alongside local selections, with themed food festivals through the year and private rooms available for Western-style private dining.
Service hours are the useful detail for anyone building an itinerary around them: breakfast runs 06:30 to 10:00 on weekdays and 06:30 to 10:30 at weekends, lunch is 12:00 to 14:00, and dinner is 17:30 to 21:00.
The Chinese restaurant, Zhenshanlou, is on the fourth floor and is the more interesting of the two. The kitchen runs on Cantonese as its backbone, with Shaanxi and Gansu cooking and new-style fusion dishes alongside, plus a set of chef signature plates. It has 11 private rooms, two of them fitted with serious audio and visual equipment, and the largest, called Guangcheng Hall, seats 30 for a dinner.
A useful practical note if you are hosting clients here: the hotel's own materials name this restaurant Zhenshanlou in the dining section and Zhenshan Tower in the floor directory, so if you are reading a Chinese-language booking confirmation, check which name appears. It is the same room.
Meetings: 1,100 square metres, seven rooms and a 320-seat ballroom
This is the reason the hotel is on the map, and the space is genuinely serious. There are 1,100 square metres of meeting and function space across seven rooms, on the third floor.
The centrepiece is the Century Ballroom, a pillar-free room of 530 square metres that seats 320 in banquet layout. It has a proper stage, professional lighting and sound systems, and the floor can be laid out with round banquet tables, with long rows, or with white-clothed rounds depending on the format you need.
Every banquet and meeting room carries high-definition LED screens so that documents and presentations stay legible, and the sound system is specified so that a speaker at the far end of the room can be heard clearly. There is stable high-speed wireless throughout, which matters if part of your audience is joining online. Lighting brightness and colour temperature are adjustable for different formats, and the hotel's conference services team responds on site.
The boardroom is on the same floor, and the remaining six multi-function rooms are of varying sizes. Between them, the space covers board meetings, product launches, company annual events and large weddings, and IHG's conference team will draw up a tailored plan. If you are running an incentives programme and need more rooms or a destination with more of them, our guide to MICE and incentive travel in China sets out what else Xi'an can offer.
Swimming, the gym and the other floors
The indoor heated swimming pool is in the basement and free for hotel guests. It is 20 metres long, 7.5 metres wide and 1.4 metres deep, under a ceiling of blue-lit panels. IHG lists two pools at the property.
The fitness centre is on the fifth floor, open 24 hours, with equipment from Precor, the American brand, plus free weights, ellipticals, step machines, spin bikes and treadmills. There is a separate spinning studio with an instructor, and the floor-to-ceiling windows mean you work out looking at the city rather than at a wall.
There are also private games rooms on the fifth floor, with deluxe and VIP cabins for mahjong and card games, which is how a great deal of local business hospitality in China actually gets done. IHG lists a kids corner for children aged 5 to 10, complimentary cocktail hour, bicycle hire, parasols and loungers for rent, and towels available for a fee. There is an 18-hole golf course nearby at the foot of the Zhongnan Mountains.
Who this hotel suits, and who it does not
It suits business travellers arriving for a specific piece of work. A delegate landing at Xi'an North, a team flying in for a product launch, an organiser who needs a 320-seat ballroom and a hotel that sleeps the speakers upstairs. That is what it was built for and it does that well.
It suits groups that want a hotel and a venue in one building, because the meeting floor and the guest rooms are three floors apart in the same tower. It also suits conference attendees who would rather be somewhere quiet and close to the northern ring road than in the middle of the pedestrian city, particularly if you have an early flight.
It does not suit travellers who want to walk to the Bell Tower, the Muslim Quarter or the Terracotta Army. Those are 5 to 25 kilometres away and need a taxi or a car. It also does not suit anyone looking for Xi'an atmosphere, which means wall-to-wall Tang revival, night markets and street food; that is a different city centre and a different set of hotels. Our guide to Xi'an beyond Beijing and Shanghai covers what the rest of the capital offers, and our guide to the Wyndham in Xi'an's Chanba district covers the newer business hotels on the other side of town.
One more thing to check before booking a leisure stay: the hotel is built around business demand. There is a gym, a pool and a games room, but no spa, no hot spring and no resort programme. If you are looking for a wellness break, our guide to the Qinling hot spring resort an hour outside the city is the opposite end of the spectrum.
Practical notes before you book
Passport registration. Every guest must register passport details at check-in, which is a legal requirement for all accommodation in China. Our guide to hotel registration rules for foreign travellers explains how this works and what to bring.
Check-in and out. Check-in from 14:00, check-out by 12:00, and the minimum age is 18.
Getting there. The nearest metro is Line 2's Daminggong West station, about 1.1 kilometres on foot. The hotel is 7.6 kilometres from Xi'an North high-speed rail station and 22 kilometres from the airport. If you are arriving on a flight, pre-book a transfer; if you are arriving on a train, a taxi from Xi'an North is straightforward. Our guide to which train station to use in Xi'an sorts out the difference between Xi'an North, Xi'an Station and Xi'an South.
Payment. American Express, Visa, Mastercard and China UnionPay are all accepted, and the hotel has no on-site ATM as far as the published material indicates. Our guide to paying in China without a Chinese bank card covers what to set up before you arrive.
Parking. On-site parking costs 60 CNY per day, and there are electric vehicle charging points. If you are driving in from the airport or driving on to a job in another city, this is the most straightforward hotel in the northern part of Xi'an to do it from.
Wi-Fi. Free high-speed wireless throughout, under the IHG One Rewards Free Wi-Fi name, with wired connections in the rooms.
Contact. Front desk and general enquiries on +86-29-88138888, and the hotel's own booking line on +8620-86009099. The IHG reservations team for the property uses reservations@cpwygc.com. Booking through IHG directly is usually the simplest route for an international guest.
Accessibility. Three accessible rooms are listed, with lift access to all floors, wheelchair-accessible reception, and accessible washrooms and toilets.
Frequently asked questions
Which Crowne Plaza in Xi'an is this one?
The Crowne Plaza Xi'an Weiyang, at No. 6 West Section of the North Second Ring Road in Weiyang District, inside the Guangcheng International Center complex. It is not the 228-metre Crowne Plaza on Zhuque Road in the south of the city.
How far is it from the city centre?
About 5.4 kilometres in a straight line to the Bell Tower and 5.3 kilometres to Xi'an Railway Station, with the Daming Palace park 2.8 kilometres away. All of these need a taxi or a car.
Is there a metro station nearby?
Yes, Daminggong West on Line 2, about 700 metres in a straight line and roughly 1.1 kilometres on foot. The nearest Line 10 interchange is nearly 5 kilometres away.
How big are the meeting facilities?
1,100 square metres across seven rooms, including a 530-square-metre pillar-free ballroom seating 320 in banquet layout, plus a boardroom and six further multi-function rooms. Every room has HD LED screens, sound and adjustable lighting.
Is the swimming pool free?
Yes, the indoor heated pool on the basement level is free for hotel guests. It is 20 metres by 7.5 metres and 1.4 metres deep, and you need your room card to reach it.
Is there an English-speaking service?
Yes. IHG lists English and Chinese as the languages spoken at the property, which is one of the practical advantages of booking an international-brand hotel rather than a local one. Chinese signage and printed material remain Chinese.
Can I host a wedding here?
The Century Ballroom seats 320 in banquet layout, and the hotel's own material mentions large wedding celebrations as a use case for the space, with a dedicated events team.
Last updated: November 2026
