Ivy Shanghai is Red, White and Boutique All Over

Where: 709 Jiaozhou Road, Shanghai , China, 200040

September 23, 2008 at 1:22 PM | 0 Comments

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.

The area around the Ivy Shanghai was a factory area that's now becoming a trendy residential zone. The hip thing's transferred to the hotel as well and the designer who decorates homes for the rich and famous like Rupert Murdoch has done a great job on the Ivy Shanghai--there's a heavy red and white theme which seems appropriately Chinese but not too overdone.

There's a very reasonable soft opening rate of just RMB850 (US$125) and then the regular rack rate will start at RMB2,288 (US$330)--including a 24-hour personal butler assigned to each guest. The only thing that bugs us a little is the Ivy Shanghai's restaurant is Kuromatsu--a Japanese teppanyaki joint, which just doesn't fit the decor. Then again, who says you have to eat Chinese in China?

Tags: Boutique Hotels / Hotel Openings / Shanghai Hotels

by amandak

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