Tourist class hotels in China have what I call a "Get Lost Card", which is a business card with the name and location of the hotel written in Chinese characters. The idea is that when you want to get back to your hotel, you just hand the card to your driver.

Since you want to GET to you hotel in the first place, I would recommend you try to find the hotel's website and see if there is a map showing its name and location in Chinese for you to print out and take with you.

It has been years since I was in Beijing. From my experience, the taxis drivers are honest and dependable and know major hotels and locations, but no English. You need to have your hotel name and address written down in Chinese characters for you to hand to the driver.

Even going to Taiwan, I found it helpful to have my local Chinese-speaking friend write down city names for me to help me purchase train tickets when I arrived in Taipei.