J-Hotel Ulaanbaatar

Check-in runs around the clock. J-Hotel is a business hotel in central Ulaanbaatar, set in zone A among government offices, embassies and museums, 1.3 km from Sukhbaatar Square. It holds 70 rooms across standard and apartment categories, with total capacity for 120 guests, and staff speak English, Korean, Russian and French. Apartment rooms come with a kitchenette and floor heating, useful given Mongolia's cold winters, along with a mini-fridge, cable television, a water heater and a kettle with tea and coffee. Standard rooms carry the same basic comforts without the kitchen. A breakfast lounge on the ground floor seats 60 and runs buffet-style, free for guests staying at the hotel. Downstairs, a coffee shop serves coffee, smoothies and desserts through the day, and a small massage centre called Zen offers foot, full-body and aromatherapy treatments using natural products. The hotel also runs a business centre with printing, scanning and fax, plus luggage storage, airport pick-up on request and currency exchange at the front desk. It is a compact, practical stay, built more for function than for flourish, and its location near embassies and government buildings suits travellers with meetings to keep as much as those there to see the city.