6 hotels · China
The great hotels of Shanghai
6 luxury hotels in Shanghai are documented in this guide, ordered by international renown. The oldest, Fairmont Peace Hotel, opened in 1929; the most recent, Bulgari Hotel Shanghai, in 2018. Each page gives the history, the key figures and a direct line to the events team.
Fairmont Peace Hotel
Victor Sassoon's 1929 Cathay Hotel on the Bund, under its green pyramid roof, where Noël Coward wrote Private Lives in 1930.
The Peninsula Shanghai
The first new building on the Bund in six decades, opened in October 2009 on the former British Consulate grounds at No. 32.
235 rooms
Waldorf Astoria Shanghai on the Bund
The Long Bar of the 1910 Shanghai Club, once 34 metres of mahogany reserved for British members, pours again inside the Waldorf Astoria at No. 2 The Bund.
260 rooms
Park Hyatt Shanghai
Reception on the 87th floor of the Shanghai World Financial Center; on opening in 2008 it was the highest hotel in the world.
174 rooms
Amanyangyun
Ming and Qing dynasty houses and ten thousand camphor trees moved 700 kilometres from Jiangxi to the edge of Shanghai, reassembled as a hotel in 2018.
47 rooms
Bulgari Hotel Shanghai
Bulgari Hotel Shanghai joins a 48-storey tower on the Suzhou Creek to the restored 1916 Chamber of Commerce, whose Cantonese restaurant holds a Michelin star.
120 rooms