The Peace Hotel

The Peace hotel (Heping fandian) is located right in the colonial heart of Shanghai and has a glittering history to match its accommodation! For more information on the hotel's history and the surrounding area, click here! The Bund.Some of the rooms have spectacular views over the Huangpu River and all are decorated in their original Art Deco style.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.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.

The Peace Hotel, formerly known as the Cathay Hotel, was built in 1929 and is still symbolized as the most luxurious"No.1 Mansion in the Far East". After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the hotel reopened as Peace Hotel in 1956. And after recent renovation, all the rooms and restaurants are furnished with first-class facilities to provide guests with the best comfort and convenience. Peace Hotel is truly a fusion of ancient and modern, Eastern and Western.

Location

For decades, the Bund has been the economic and finance center of Shanghai. A number of tall buildings stand alongside the Huangpu River like a multinational architectural show. Among them, the Peace Hotel, with its green pyramid-like characteristic, enjoys a glamorous attraction of the passers-by.

Facing the developing Pudong new area, soaring Orient Pearl TV Tower over the Huangpu River, and situated next to the Nanjing Road Shopping Area, the Peace Hotel is an ideal place for work, rest, leisure, entertainment and shopping for businessmen and women.

Rooms

There are 380 well furnished rooms, suites in this property ,among which are the well known National Deluxe Suites, such as Chinese, British, American, French, Japanese ,Italian, German, Indian and Spanish all elegantly decorated and carefully preserved in the original style by the 30's.

It's at a choice of 18 restaurants, bars, banquet halls and multi-function rooms, preparing you authentic Chinese food specialized in Shanghai, Cantonese, Sichuan cuisines, as well as the perfect combination of French Cuisine and Japanese food.