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Dust Off Your Quilted Purse! Chanel Opens In The Peninsula Shanghai Tomorrow

JetSetCD — 2009-11-24T16:08:38-05:00

Shanghai, China's first Peninsula Hotel may have just opened, but it's far from done stealing the show on the Bund. Tomorrow, the hotel opens a flagship Chanel boutique, complete with its own limited-edition "Paris-Shanghai M�tiers d'Art" line of products specially designed by Karl Lagerfeld. Following the opening, a short film will debut on December 3 on the dedicated website for the store, featuring more on the special collection and this boutique itself.

Please Welcome The Peninsula And Its Fleet Of Phantoms To Shanghai

JetSetCD — 2009-11-20T15:30:58-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/PeninSH1.jpg" class="top"> We can talk about <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Art%20Basel%20Hotels">Art Basel Miami</a> hotels and <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/christmas%20hotels">hotels for the holidays</a> all we want, but we can't ignore one of the biggest hotel openings of autumn, that of the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Peninsula+Shanghai/ian/324788">Peninsula Shanghai</a>. It officially welcomed its first guests back on October 19, and yet it's already like a landmark on Shanghai's Bundthe street of shops, other high-class hotels, and historical buildings right at the bend of the Huangpu River. The main thing to know about this Peninsula is its relatively low starting room rate: $295. With it, if you can score the deal (and we recommend searching for dates far into the future), you'll be sitting pretty in a room with the feeling

Amanresorts Go All Cultural In China, Again

amandak — 2009-11-17T12:34:28-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/Amanfayun_China.jpg" class="top"> Staying in Beijing at Amanresort's luxury <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Aman+At+Summer+Palace/ian/275145">Aman At Summer Palace</a> - the hotel that's actually built in part of the Summer Palace so you don't need to leave your room to <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/10/6/21517/3107/hotels/Aman_at_Summer_Palace_in_Beijing_is_Like_Going_Sightseeing_Without_Leaving_Your_Hotel">go sightseeing</a> - is apparently not enough. Amanresorts are now saying they're giving travelers to China the "town and country" version of a Chinese vacation, because in 2010 they will open the Amanfayun Resort on the outskirts of one of China's seven ancient capitals, Hangzhou.Hangzhou is about a hundred miles south-west of Shanghai, and the Amanresort will be twenty minutes outside of its center, in the buildings of an old village. Tea farmers used to live in the 47 stone courtyard houses which have

Hard Rock Macau's Got A Fancy Rock And Roll Suite

amandak — 2009-11-09T16:07:10-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/Hard_Rock_Macau_Lobby.jpg " class="top"> If you're a fan of Asian pop music then you're bound to know that Hong Kong singer Jacky Cheung is quite a star they even call him the "God of Songs" in that part of the world. Knowing that, the fact that there's now a Jacky Cheung Rock Star Suite at Macau's Hard Rock Hotel is pretty cool news.Even if you don't know too much about Jacky Cheung, you'll learn plenty by staying in his suite. You'll be greeted by a video of Jacky explaining both the elements of design in the room and his favorite spots to visit in Macau. The room itself includes plenty of Jacky Cheung memorabilia, including his own white baby

NYT Not Particularly Impressed by China's Commune by the Great Wall

KatieK — 2009-11-09T13:34:24-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/17697/great_wall.jpg" class="top"> Sometimes a view is so awe-inspiring, well admit we cant be bothered caring quite so much about creature comfort details. At Chinas <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Commune+By+The+Great+Wall/ian/265219">Commune by the Great Wall</a>, though, not only do some guests nab views of the Great Wall, but the collection of vacation homes is an architectural marvel in its own right too, or <a href="http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/travel/08check.html?ref=travel">so says the New York Times</a>. Designed by 12 Asian architects as a retreat from the urban sprawl of Beijing, the collection of homes is a mix of originals and more recent copies, the most popular apparently being the Cantilever House and Bamboo House. Sitting in the valley at the food of a wild section of the Great Wall, the