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Famous Hotel Gets Tagged

Where: 20 Nanjing East Road, Shanghai, China, 200002

Damn those romantic movies! Not only do they make you cry and wonder what is a life worth living without love but they are also responsible for ruining the facade of a famous Shanghai hotel.

Ok, it was just indirectly but still. The historic Bund waterfront Peace Hotel, where Noel Coward wrote "Private Lives," (about ex-husbands and ex-wives) got tagged with red Chinese characters by a crew filming a romantic movie.

The crew painted the characters on to window panes on the hotel's 1929-built north building on Monday night, apparently unaware they were breaking the law, the Shanghai Daily said.

"We have done a lot to protect the environment and architecture," the paper quoted production manager Xu Wen as saying. "If it is still not enough, we say sorry."

The hotel is more than 100 years old and back in its 1930s heyday was frequented by Charlie Chaplin and George Bernard Shaw.

Because the hotel is so old it's protected by a law that declares it a cultural relic from the colonial days when the local was known as the "Pearl of the East" and "Whore of the Orient" for its racy nightlife.

Related Stories:
· Noel Coward's Shanghai hotel defaced by film crew [Yahoo!]
· Peace Hotel reviews [TripAdvisor]