Shanghai Metropole Hotel: 22 - 27 september

The Shanghai Metropole Hotel, a member of Shanghai New Asia Group Ltd., is conveniently located in the downtown commercial area. It's a 15-story building built in 1934, which has retained its old-world European charm but combined with modern business convenience.

Location

The Shanghai Metropole Hotel faces the picturesque Bund on the east, Nanjing Road, a shopper's paradise, on the north and the historical Yu Garden on the south. The Hotel is very close to the Shanghai City Hall, economic & trade corporations and financial institutions.

Metropole Hotel is 15 kilometers from the Hongqiao International Airport, 70 kilometers from the Pudong International Airport and 5 kilometers from the railway station.

A total of 8 different restaurants and bars provide ample choice for the most discerning guests. There are eight different restaurants here serving fine Chinese cuisine, and the hotel bar is an ideal place to unwind.

For business travelers, there are difference sized meeting rooms for hire, and the business center is open round the clock, providing telex, fax, IDD and photocopying services.

Recreation facilities here include a sauna, beauty salon and gymnasium. Other features are safe deposit boxes, a foreign exchange desk, room service, flight ticket reservations and an arts and craft shopping center.

This is a great location and the hotel offers very good value for money, and a slice of Shanghai's history.

Address: 180 Jiang Xi Road Shanghai, China
Post Code: 200002
Tel: 86-21-63213030

Shanghai Peace Hotel 27 - 30 september

Known by many as the most famous hotel in China, the Peace Hotel has been a Shanghai Landmark for nearly a century. The decor is stunning throughout, and rooms such as the recently restored dining room are frequently featured in Chinese films. In addition to well appointed accommodations the hotel has an impressive array of services and facilities. The hotel also features the 'Old Jazz Band', a group of Jazz veterans who play in the hotel's English-style bar nightly.

Location

Located on the famous Bund by the Huangpu River (at the cross roads of Nanjing Road East and Zhongshan Dong Yi Road).

To City Centre: 0.0 Km

To Airport: 18.0 Km

To Railway: 3.5 Km

To Pier: 2.0 Km

Rooms

The hotel has 380 beautifully furnished rooms, all carefully preserved in their original 1930s style. In its heyday in the 30's the hotel was a base for many famous artists including Song Qingling, Charlie Chaplin, George Bernard Shaw and Noel Coward.

Guest rooms are equipped with colour cable / satellite TV, IDD and DDD, safe box, mini bar, separate shower bath (TV in bathroom in every suite and superior room), smoke sensor and SOS button.

There are numerous restaurants, bars, banquet halls and business facilities in the hotel, all serving the high class cuisine one would expect from a hotel of this standard. The Hotel's Jazz Bar was once a hangout for Shanghai sophisticates. The band still play fantastic tunes today, although the bar itself has become more of a tourist joint than a trendy hang out and the "Cover Charge" to get into the place to enjoy this experience is a bit of a rip off!

Others facilities include a fully equipped gymnasium, beauty and massage parlor and foreign languages book store.

The Peace Hotel really is the only hotel of this kind in Shanghai. It offers a fascinating insight into Shanghai's history and is a charming and beautiful relic of times and lives, gone by.

Add: 20, Nanjing Dong Lu, Shanghai, P.R. China.
Post Code: 200002
Tel: 86-21-63216888

Beijing Grand Hotel 30 september - 2 oktober

The Grand Hotel Beijing (Beijing guibinlou fandian) is a magnificent former palace which has been transformed into a 5-star hotel.

The traditional design contrasts dramatically with the modern look developing elsewhere in the city.

Location

The hotel is located on a small street in the city, this crimson colored building almost appears from nowhere as you drive down the road. The hotel enjoys an exceptional location. It overlooks the Forbidden City and also has great views of Beijing's biggest avenue, Chang'an Avenue where the hustle and bustle of the street reflects the cosmopolitan nature of the city.

The Grand Hotel Beijing creates a sense of deja vu and makes you feel as if you have stepped into the shoes of an ancient Chinese Emperor.

Rooms & Rates

Much of the hotel is decorated in the old Chinese style. And its not difficult to imagine what life must have been like for the Emperors when you are staying in this elegant place. The rooms here are all furnished to the highest standards.

All of the 217 guestrooms including 160 deluxe rooms and Palace View Rooms and 57 suites such as Deluxe Suites, Ambassador's Suite, Emperor's Suite etc. are elegantly and comfortably furnished.

All the furniture in guest rooms of the hotel are made of pear-wood against a background of classical calligraphies and paintings filled with the sentiment of ancient China. Archaic Chinese calligraphy and painting that radiate an elegant traditional Chinese appeal.

You can overlook the Forbidden City and the Changan Ave from the Palace View Room.

All rooms have internet ports , free use of the High Speed Internet Access, free use of the fax machine. Separate walk in shower cabinet and a deep bathtub.

Have a party at the Zijin Hall with a panoramic interlude on the rooftop terrace, overlooking the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square. No austerity in the rooms and suites, which are adorned with researched objets d'art and Palace-Museum patterns. There's life down below, too: the Fountain Bar and Red Wall Cafe even bring the trees inside; at Ming Yuan, Rong Yuan and Old Peking the floral theme extends to the artworks. More marble surrounds the dome enclosed pool; contemporary design and Karaoke in the Free Music Palace; a shopping arcade for couture and memorabilia inside and more of the same at Wangfujing Street round the corner. Quelle grandeur!

This is a great place to stay if you want to feel like and Emperor for a day (or two, or three......)

Add: 35 East Changan Avenue Beijing
Post Code: 100020
Tel: 86-10-65137788

Beijing LuSongYuan Hotel 2 - 6 oktober

Once a princess' residing, now a culture hotel

LuSongYuan Hotel is situated in Beijing. It lies at the center of the ancient city, an old styled "Hutong" (Mongolian for water well) in the eastern part of the city.

It is a traditional compound of quadrangle composing of 5 yards. It is surrounded by historical buildings built since Kublai Khan's Yuan Dynasty, and much of the buildings built from Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties are still preserved until today.

Hutongs and quadrangles are typical Beijing architectural structures. Hutongs are ancient styled lanes unique in Beijing. Quadrangles are the main structures inside hutongs.

Location

Lusongyuan Hotel lies at the center of the ancient city, locates in Ping'an Avenue, is about 7 km from Tiananmen Square and Forbidden City, 11 km from West Railway Station and 25 km from Beijing Capital Airport.

Restaurants

Lobby Lounge which offers tea and coffee during the day. Besides continental breakfast, the restaurant offers traditional Beijing cuisine including Peking duck, dumpling, noodles, hot pots and etc.

Leisure - Time Pleasure
LuSongYuan Hotel has not only preserved traditional architectures, but also the quite and artistic ancient way of life for you to experience the traditional Beijing customs. There are teahouses in the courtyard; Studies of the ancient classics; open area for Taiji and chess playing. You can also listen to birds singing in the courtyard in the Spring and Summer.

Local Hutong Tour

LuSongYuan Hotel also makes arrangements for series of hutong journeys, including visiting Huohai Yingding Bridge by pedicabs, visiting ancient hutongs and quadrangles of local people, climbing the 700 years ancient drum tower, visiting the Gongwang Mansion House Garden where the nobles lived, visiting primary schools or kindergartens in hutongs, visiting local people... etc.

We intend to let you experience local customs
as well as the history and current state of the Beijing city.

Address: No.22, Banchang Lane, Kuanjie Beijing, China
Post Code: 100009
Tel: 86-10-64040436