Wedding venues in China

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

The Peninsula Beijing

Rebuilt in 2017 from 525 rooms into 230 suites, the smallest of them 60 square metres, on Goldfish Lane off Wangfujing.

230 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

Aman Summer Palace

Qing courtyard houses beside the east gate of the Summer Palace, once the waiting rooms for an audience with Cixi, with a private door into the park.

51 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 Beijing

Bulgari Hotel Beijing opened in September 2017 beside the Liangma River in the Embassy District, with 119 rooms and a garden running down to the water.

119 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

The Peninsula Hong Kong

Hong Kong's oldest hotel still in business, open since December 1928, with a fleet of green Rolls-Royce cars and a rooftop helipad.

297 rooms

Island Shangri-La, Hong Kong

A 56-storey hotel above Pacific Place whose atrium holds a 16-storey Chinese silk painting, said to be the largest of its kind.

565 rooms · Up to 1,000 guests

Beijing Hotel

The hotel on Chang'an Avenue where the People's Republic held its first state banquet on 1 October 1949, with a 1917 French-designed wing still in use.

600 rooms

Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong

The first hotel in the world to hold two three-Michelin-star restaurants, Lung King Heen and Caprice, above the IFC on the Central waterfront.

399 rooms

The Ritz-Carlton, Hong Kong

A hotel on floors 102 to 118 of the International Commerce Centre, the highest in the world when it opened in 2011, with a bar and a pool at the very top.

312 rooms