Please Welcome The Peninsula And Its Fleet Of Phantoms To Shanghai
Where: No. 32 The Bund, 32 Zhongshan, Dong Yi Rd,
Shanghai,
China
We can talk about Art Basel Miami hotels and hotels for the holidays all we want, but we can't ignore one of the biggest hotel openings of autumn, that of the Peninsula Shanghai. It officially welcomed its first guests back on October 19, and yet it's already like a landmark on Shanghai's Bund—the 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 of a suite, as each room is divided into living spaces and even features a dressing room in lieu of an itty-bitty closet. More on that dressing room, after the jump.
Best. Hotel Closet. Ever.
The hotel might not have the tourist-attracing grand atrium of the Grand Hyatt Jinmao or the novelty of sleeping in one of the world's tallest buildings, like with Park Hyatt Shanghai, but the Peninsula is on the other side of the river from them in Puxi, and it does boast some of the largest hotel rooms in the city and seriously, a dressing room has to count for something.
The Peninsula and its art deco interior, its Michelin-starred chef, the fleet of Rolls-Royce Phantoms, and its "custom-made 1930s Schindler cage lift and a full-scale replica of a 1930s seaplane in the Rosemonde Aviation Lounge," will rule Shanghai's luxury scene for all of 2010 and some of 2011, until the Waldorf-Astoria opens as well, and then we'll have some fresh competition in Puxi.
Okay okay...we'll show you what the room looks like too
Photos: Peninsula Shanghai
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