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They Love the Holidays This Much: The Shangri-La Pudong Built the World's Longest Yule Log

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 33 Fu Cheng Road, Shanghai, China, 200120
December 2, 2011 at 1:40 PM | by | Comments (0)

Like it or not, the holiday season has officially begun. And no one enjoys the holiday season more than hotels. From now through New Year's Eve, we'll be featuring all the holiday hotel news, deals, events and over the top decorations, we think are the best (or the worst.) Got a question about booking a hotel over the holidays or what to do when staying in a hotel over the holidays? Let us know!

The holidays make hotels do crazy things. Like erecting Christmas trees adorned with money or oversized gingerbread houses or life-sized chocolate Santas (nom, nom.) So it comes as little surprise that the Shangri-La Pudong Hotel in Shanghai, China attempted yesterday to break the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest yule log cake.

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Wait, What? OMG, Andaz Shanghai is Now Open!

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 88 Songshan Road, Shanghai, China, 200021
October 21, 2011 at 9:05 AM | by | Comments (0)

Just a few weeks ago we got word that the Andaz Shanghai would be opening on January 1 but something must have happened because the hotel actually opened on Tuesday!

All Some of the 307 rooms and suites are now open as well as the hotel's restaurants and bars, although the event spaces and the Optime spa are coming later. And as always, the Andaz brand standards of free WiFi, free minibar goodies and nonalcoholic drinks are included as well as light snacks in the Andaz Lounge and free telephone calls.

However, this is the most technologically advanced Andaz Hotel to date thanks in part to the LED lighting on the ceiling which allows guests to choose the mood/color of their rooms.

The folks at Andaz have sent us over some hotel photos which we've put in a gallery for you down below. But if you want more, a tipster let us know that a Flyertalker has put up this photoset on Flickr. Whee!

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Andaz Shanghai to Open January 1, Andaz Amsterdam is Coming Soon

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 88 Songshan Road, Shanghai, China, 200021
October 3, 2011 at 1:37 PM | by | Comments (0)

UPDATEAndaz Amsterdam ran into some problems the other month. Scroll down for more.

The other day we were combing through our inbox when we spotted an email about the forthcoming Andaz Shanghai. A tipster visiting Shanghai a few weeks ago was having drinks with friends at The Langham Xintiandi which opened nearly a year ago. He reports:

I can tell you right now, when I return to Shanghai in November, the get together with my friends will be in Andaz. Wow, the hotel is not open, but when I was there, they were doing some sort of training. Yes, I could see. They have what it appears to be a really cool restaurant, with outdoor seats, all lit up beautifully in the evening - on street level.

A friend knows a friend who knows the people in this hotel. He told me it had been built for a few years and was supposed to be another hotel brand, which never opened. Hyatt went in and put the Andaz name on it. I googled it and found out this was all correct. It was supposed to be a Jumeirah.

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Shanghai's JIA Hotel Briefly Goes Up in Massive Flames

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 931 West Nanjing Road, Shanghai, China
September 22, 2011 at 3:50 PM | by | Comments (0)

In case you need another reminder that gas leaks are no joke, an entire hotel went up in flames today because of one. The hotel, the designy-boutique JIA Shanghai, suffered exterior damage, as it was mainly the facade that caught on fire after "work being done by the government on a gas main that ruptured," according to Shanghaiist.

Almost as quickly as the gas leak caused tongues of flame to reach each balcony at the hotel, the fire was put out and all guests safe and accounted for. This is the reason hotels have emergency escape plans posted on the back of every room door.

[Photo: @dave1447]

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Inside The Fairmont Peace Hotel's Nine Nations Suites

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 20 Nanjing Road East Huangpu, Shanghai, China, 200002
August 11, 2011 at 2:49 PM | by | Comments (0)

Shanghai's legendary Fairmont Peace Hotel just got even more, wait for it...legendary with the recent unveiling of their Nine Nations Suites and Sassoon Presidential Suite.

The Nine Nations suites were actually a part of the hotel when it first opened back in 1929 as The Cathay Hotel and they paid homage to the "cultural and stylistic influences" of both East and West on Shanghai life.

Now the suites are open again as the final pieces in the hotel's extensive three-year renovation. The Chinese, Indian, English and American suites have been preserved, while the French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and German suites were redesigned but in line with their original concept.

And we've got glorious photos of all the East and West suites as well as the Sassoon Presidential Suite which features 360-degree views of the city from its perch on the hotel's 10th floor. (It's named after the hotel's founder Sir Victor Sassoon who once lived in the suite.) Check 'em out below!

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Park Hyatt Shanghai Keeps Your Feet Clean With Foot Showers

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 100 Century Ave., Shanghai, Shanghai, China, 200120
August 9, 2011 at 10:40 AM | by | Comments (2)

Bathroom Tuesday continues! Just when we thought hotels had figured out all the ways to pamper us, we happened upon a peculiar and peculiarly delightful little in-room amenity at the Park Hyatt Shanghai: foot showers.

Walking around the gritty streets of Shanghai can get downright dirty, so of course when you retire to one of your stratospheric rooms on floors 79-93 of the Shanghai World Financial Center (it used to be the world’s highest hotel before the Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong opened in March), you want to wash all that grime off before exploiting your room’s other amenities to the fullest, in particular the free WiFi and the fact that it’s the only hotel in the city that filters its water so it’s safe to drink.

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Missed Western Valentine’s Day? Celebrate Chinese Valentine’s Day at Peninsula Shanghai

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 32 The Bund, Shanghai, Shanghai, China, 2000002
August 1, 2011 at 2:50 PM | by | Comments (0)

Did you forget to buy your sweetheart candy and flowers on Valentine’s Day, and have been paying for it ever since? Or maybe you only just met someone special and wish you could enlist Cupid’s help to show your love, but have over six months until you can celebrate Anti-Singles Day again.

Lucky for you we look for any chance to get all sentimental and mushy, and found out during a recent trip to Shanghai that Chinese Valentine’s Day falls on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, and this year it’s on August 6. We also just learned about two Chinese Valentine’s Day packages being offered by the Peninsula Shanghai.

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Blood & Bitters is Pretty Sweet at the PuLi Hotel’s New Garden Terrace in Shanghai

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 1 ChangDe Road, JingAn, Shanghai, China, 20040
July 26, 2011 at 9:29 AM | by | Comment (1)

Recently, we spent a few days in Shanghai at the behest of the PuLi Hotel in the western Jing’An business and park district. As the muggy heat in the city became unbearable we thought we’d just enjoy a quick refreshing cocktail at the hotel’s Long Bar, but instead, we decided to check out their newly opened Garden Terrace.

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The New Shanghai Sisters: The Andaz and The Langham Xintiandi

Where: Shanghai, China
July 13, 2011 at 10:18 AM | by | Comments (0)

The other day we nearly lost it when we heard that the Andaz Shanghai would be opening this summer. Today, we're Andazming all over again after learning two big new pieces of info. 1. The hotel will probably open in August. And 2. We've got photos!

Another Hyatt Deep Throat source sent us this link to the architect's website where we not only got to spy on some pics of Andaz Shanghai but also the new Langham Hotel--The Langham Xintiandi which opened in January and which is now getting some "finishing touches."

The two five-star hotels are right next to each other in separate towers between the Huai Hai Zhong Road retail corridor and the Xintiandi district, which is a redeveloped nightlife neighborhood populated by restaurants, outdoor cafes and nightclubs. And they will be connected by a pedestrian bridge so you can flit from Andaz to Langham as you wish. (The Andaz is being called the Leisure Tower while the Langham is for business.)

There's so much design goodness to mention here we hardly know where to start! But let us break it down for you now:

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Andaz to Take Shanghai Very Soon, Like This Summer Soon

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 88 Songshan Road, Shanghai, China, 200021
July 11, 2011 at 9:00 AM | by | Comment (1)

One of our favorite hotel brands out there, Andaz Hotels from Hyatt, has just stealthily revealed that their newest location in Shanghai will open THIS SUMMER.

We had a major Andazm in February when we heard that Andaz would be heading to the Far East but we didn't have many details. Now we do.

Our deep throat Hyatt source pointed us to the Andaz Shanghai website where it says the opening is happening this summer. Umm...since it's summer now, this could be like any day now so here's what to expect inside:

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Shangri-La Debuts Its New, Laid Back Kerry Brand In Shanghai

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: No. 1388 Hua Mu Road, Pudong, Shanghai, China, 201204
March 1, 2011 at 2:57 PM | by | Comments (2)

There’s yet another new hotel in town for Shanghai, but for once we’re more interested in the brand than the specifics of the hotel itself.

The Kerry Hotel Pudong, Shanghai, is the first Kerry hotel – the new five star lifestyle brand from Shangri-La. The aim of which is, apparently, to:

Appeal to the business traveler who prefers a vibrant and relaxed environment without compromising on service or quality. The hotels are contemporary in style and provide a seamless link between business, entertainment and recreation. Extensive leisure facilities are designed to become a social activity hub for both hotel guests and the local community

Although we’re not keen on the name, which doesn’t exactly have the romance of a Shangri-La or the hustle of a Traders, we’re liking the sound of the place. The main restaurant, COOK, is a huge round-the-world affair with 11 open kitchens from Chinese and Japanese to a butcher’s block, patisserie and – stem your desire – a “cheese vault”. Ie, it’s like a super-posh buffet, only you order a la carte. Awesome.

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Andaz Goes Far East With Its First Asian Opening Set For Shanghai

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: Shanghai, China
February 14, 2011 at 9:31 AM | by | Comments (0)

A bed at Andaz WeHo

It’s time to cross the other pond for Andaz, which, not content with conquering America and London, and planning to drape itself over a couple of other continents, has announced plans to open its first hotel in Asia in Shanghai.

It’ll be a swift process: the hotel is scheduled to open this summer.

The hotel will be a 24 story new-build with 307 rooms, situated in the Xintiandi entertainment district of downtown Shanghai, and near the shopping central Huai Hai Zhong Road. There will be 45 suites, as well as a restaurant, brasserie, bar, lounge, spa, pool and meeting space.

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