HotelChatter - Tag: China Hotels

Shanghai: 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

Hangzhou: 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

JUYONGGUAN: 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

Fairmont Hotels Go Exotic With Three New Silk Road Hotels

amandak — 2009-10-13T09:43:36-05:00

We love new hotels, and we definitely love new hotels in exotic places – so the fact that the Fairmont group have just opened up three new hotels along the Silk Road gets us pretty excited.

The first is the Fairmont Bab Al Bahr in Abu Dhabi – that unusual name means "Gateway to the Sea" so you can guess that it's a beachfront hotel. There's a private beach and two swimming pools if relaxing is on your agenda, but it's also easy to visit the gold markets, a nearby mosque or trek out on a desert safari. Until the end of the year nightly rates start from $230 as an opening special.

Suzhou: Pan Pacific Hotels Start To Take Over China With Second Hotel

amandak — 2009-09-15T09:18:53-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/Suzhou_Station.jpg" class="top"> The <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Pan%20Pacific%20Hotels">Pan Pacific Hotels</a> group are at the start of a "growth strategy" for China they sure aren't the only ones and that means they're going to open their second hotel in China in January 2010.After opening up the Pan Pacific Xiamen earlier this year, they will now be taking over and rebranding the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Sheraton+Suzhou+Hotel+%26+Towers/ian/255383">Sheraton Suzhou Hotel and Towers</a> in the east coast city of Suzhou. It's a 484-room place which Sheraton just added a brand new wing of 99 rooms to earlier in the year (obviously nobody told them they'd be handing it over). Before the January reopening they'll be putting some Pan Pacific "brand standards" in place. And then the group