HotelChatter - Tag: Shanghai Hotels

Shanghai : Ivy Shanghai is Red, White and Boutique All Over

amandak — 2008-09-23T13:22:53-05:00

Seems like the Chinese are really catching on to the idea of the boutique hotel, and in Shanghai another one's just opened up. Ivy Shanghai is a 46-roomer built into the former Jiangning Cinema, one of the first cinemas built there in the 1950s when cinemas were finally allowed to be built! The area where the cinema screen used to be is now an atrium for guests to hang out it, including a coffee bar and a WiFi area.

Shanghai: Shanghai Chic :: The PuLi Opening in January

amandak — 2008-09-16T09:59:02-05:00

With post-Olympics fever promising a tourist rush to China, we're advising you to wait until next year, at least if you're visiting Shanghai. That's because there's a new hotel opening up called The PuLi that we're keen to try out.

Its big promotion line is that it's China's first urban resort, although we're not keen on the concept that the relaxed nature of a real resort can truly transfer to the city--but then again, if the PuLi's relaxed-but-city-chic website is anything to go by, we could be wrong.

Shanghai: Reader Review :: The URBN Hotel in Shanghai

juliana — 2008-07-31T12:08:23-05:00

<![CDATA[Every so often we feature a hotel review from one of our readers that we feel should be shared with the rest of you dear hotel guests. These reviews are highlighted because they are timely, about cool hotels in cool places and are relatively level-headed. Think you can submit one just like this? <a href="mailto:tips@hotelchatter.com">Send it in</a>. Now, we present you with reader Eric's review of the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Urbn+Hotels+Shanghai/ian/263105">URBN Hotel</a> in Shanghai which he first heard about on <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/4/7/2639/87026/hotels/URBN_Shanghai_Made_From_Old_Bricks_and_Tiles">HotelChatter</a>. Enjoy.<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/URBN_Shanghai.jpg" class="imgborder">I had just ended a long camping trip in the South of China, and arrived in Shanghai with no reservation. After this long trip, sleeping in tents and hostels, I craved a night or two of comfort. I

Shanghai: China's New Park Hyatts Dominate in Reaching New Heights

JetSetCD — 2008-07-17T15:45:58-05:00

OK, you can start hyperventilating! Park Hyatt Hotels has just announced that its two newest properties opening in China this year, The Park Hyatt Beijing and The Park Hyatt Shanghai, will each claim a record for "Highest" something-or-other.

Scheduled to debut yet this month, Beijing's Park Hyatt has rocketed up inside the city's highest building, playing host to a bevy of other record-breakers: "the city's highest spa, Pian Spa (59-60th floors), and the city's highest restaurant, China Grill (63-66th floors)." This means the moneyed Olympics-goers will have a perch to enjoy a 360-degree view of the city, above the smog.

Shanghai: 2010: A W Shanghai Odyssey

amandak — 2008-06-16T08:59:50-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/W_Shanghai_With_Helicopter.jpg" class="imgborder"> We've come across some computer-generated pics of what the coming <a href="http://www.starwoodhotels.com/whotels/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=1970">W Shanghai - Pudong</a> is meant to look like, and they've really got some hotel of the future theme happening here. In fact it's scheduled to open up in 2010, but we're thinking this futuristic thing needs a bit more time.Details on the W Shanghai are sketchy at the moment but there are a bunch of different renderings doing the rounds--some that make the two towers totally look like light sabers, and this one that combines the light saber look with some futuristic hope that we'll all be arriving by helicopter.What we do actually know is that there'll be 400 suites and guest rooms, five restaurants