HotelChatter - Tag: Beijing Hotels

Beijing: Behind Schedule With Your Hotel? Do a Shangri-La And Hedge Your Bets

juliab — 2009-11-02T09:59:20-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/21888/overview.jpg" class="top"> Heres some skewed logic to start your week off. Youre a soon-to-be-open hotel, youre not sure exactly how long its going to take for your paint to dry and your air con to get whirring, and youre watching other new hotels around the globe getting <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/10/29/122752/97/hotels/Mandarin_Oriental_Barcelona_Will_Now_Open_on_November_26th">called out</a> for opening late. Whats the solution? Well, if youre <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Shangri-La%20Hotels">Shangri-La</a>, your solution is to hedge your bets. The bizarrely named Shangri-La China World Summit Wing in <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotels/city/cn/Beijing">Beijing</a> was originally slated to open <a href="http://asia.businesstraveller.com/news/shangri-la-to-open-hotel-in-beijings-china-worl">"at the end of the year"</a>. And even now, despite Shangri-La just having appointed a GM, theyre not quite sure when itll be ready for us to bed down, announcing this weekend that itll

Beijing: NYT Reviews Beijing's Cool 3+1 Bedrooms

KatieK — 2009-10-19T12:58:40-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/17697/18checkin_650.jpg" class="top"> We hate to strum our own chord, but usually by the time the New York Times reviews a hotel weve already heaped an overgenerous amount of hype on the place, and often have even already checked the place out ourselves firsthand. But weve got to hand it to them this week they <a href="http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/travel/18check.html?ref=travel">reviewed</a> a tiny little spot in Beijing that wasnt even on our radar. The Chinese capital city is home to the hyperbolically understated <a href="http://www.3plus1bedrooms.com/">3+1 Bedrooms</a>, a teensy hotel with just three guestrooms and one suite. Too intimate to be pretentious, writes the NYT, with all the amenities (well, almost all) of a larger boutique property minus, of course, the scene. The

Beijing: A Free Westin Heavenly Bed Is Only Ten Nights Away

JetSetCD — 2009-05-11T09:11:52-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/HeavenlyBed.jpg" class="top"> Do you often find yourself in Beijing, or are you perhaps planning a week or two visit soon? Because if so, and you're calling the <a href="http://www.starwoodhotels.com/westin/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=1704">Westin Financial Street</a> your temporary home, you will be taking more than just the remainder of your in-room toiletries; you'll be receiving a complimentary Westin Heavenly Bed. Before you wind up to take a flying leap onto the white duvet with the thread count of your dreams, be aware that scoring a Heavenly Bed requires you to accumulate 10 nights' stay at the Westin Financial Street in Beijing prior to December 31. Now consider that this Westin's Heavenly Bed package begins from 1800 RMB ($264) a night, and the service fee

Beijing: Future of Fire-Damaged Mandarin Oriental Beijing Still Uncertain

amandak — 2009-03-30T09:11:29-05:00

Could the Mandarin Oriental Beijing be closing before it's even opened?

After delays from the original opening plan of pre-2008 Olympics, the nearly-finished hotel was destroyed by a fire started by a fireworks show during Chinese New Year celebrations. Until recently, Mandarin Oriental had really only a throw-their-hands-in-the-air idea about the future (since they had signed "a long term contract to manage the hotel" and had no ownership interest in the building, things were out of their control).

Beijing: Beijing's Opposite House Gets Opposite of Bad Review

KatieK — 2009-03-16T11:29:31-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/17697/oppositehouse.jpg" class="top"> Beijings hotel scene is sort of like Michael Phelps squeaky-clean image. Last August, both were Hot (with a capital H). Fast-forward seven months and Phelps and the areas hotels are, well, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/2/23/11423/1821/hotels/Beijing_Hotels_Suffer_in_Olympic_Sized_Rut">struggling</a> a bit. But both will return to good graces, were quite certain especially after reading more about the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Opposite+House/local/1272">Opposite House</a>, one of Beijings 126 hotels that opened during the Olympics rush. The New York Times <a href="http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/travel/15check.html?ref=travel">checked in</a> to the 99-room boutique hotel this past weekend as part of its Asia-Pacific Issue and divulged plenty of nuggets to get us excited. Located in a once-seedy, but now thriving part of the Sanlitun neighborhoodthink Apple, Uniqlo, and Adidas flagships, the boxy six-story hotel