Four Seasons Shanghai, Pudong and Beijing Start Accepting Reservations

Where: China

July 23, 2012 at 9:51 AM | by JasonD | Comments (0)

Looks like Four Seasons will soon add their share to the Asia hotel boom: doors will open to Four Seasons Shanghai, Pudong, and Four Seasons Beijing on August 28 and October 29, respectively.

We spotted Four Seasons Shanghai, Pudong earlier this year from the heights of the Park Hyatt next door. The start date for reservations has actually moved up a few days from September 1 at the time to August 28 now.

You'll find 187 rooms in the 55-story tower, alongside 73 luxury residences. Art-deco inspired design will bring a pared-down aesthetic to the rooms and public spaces, with splashes of red in a neutral color palette in the rooms. We liked some of the first images we saw here, so we're interested to see the end result.

If watching all those Olympic swimmers battle it out over the next few weeks has you aching to take a dip, go up to the 41st floor, where you can practice your skills in the infinity pool overlooking the shiny skyscrapers of the Pudong business district.

A room at Four Seasons Beijing

Further north, Four Seasons Beijing, located in the Yansha business district of northeastern Chaoyang, will be on a larger scale with 313 rooms and two private apartment towers. The residence website actually talks of 334 rooms, but no matter the exact number, fans of Four Seasons will feel at home in the expensive-understated decor, down to the signature frame pillow cases. Both Chinese and Italian restaurants will be onsite, as well as a lounge with bar and tea garden.

It looks like both hotels will join the limited number of Four Seasons properties with Executive Club Lounges. The original Four Seasons Shanghai has one, and so do Macau and Hong Kong (although among luxury hotels in Hong Kong, a club lounge is almost a given). Other than that, we can think of Maui and Sydney as having club lounges. So will this be a change in direction for Four Seasons? Or, more likely, just a feature of its larger hotels in some Asian cities.

With Shanghai, Pudong, and Beijing opening, the tally for Four Seasons in China stands at five (Beijing, Shanghai times two, Hanghzou, and Guangzhou), which has us wondering whether they will make their projected 14 hotels by 2014?

Rates for a weekend in September in Shanghai start at CNY3,000 (about $470), and CNY1,900 (about $300) at Four Seasons Beijing for a weekend in November.

[Images: HotelChatter, Four Seasons Hotels]

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