Central Hotel

The Central Hotel has a superb location just steps from busy Nanjing Road (“No. 1 Street in China”)with its bright lights, shops and restaurants. There are 319 rooms over 27 floors, each with cable TV, minibar, tea and coffee making facilities, air-conditioning, telephone and safe, and the hotel offers three bars, a coffee shop, western restaurant and another serving typical Shanghainese cuisine. Guests can also enjoy the gym, billiards, table tennis, beauty salon, sauna, jacuzzi, massage, shop and business centre. 

Broadway Mansions Hotel

A landmark hotel on Shanghai’s famous Bund close to Waibaidu Bridge and Suzhou Creek, and for decades the tallest building in Shanghai at 19 storeys, Broadway Mansions was built in 1934 by a British architect in Art Deco style, like the American ‘stepped’ skyscrapers popular at the time. It features a ‘pub’ bar with antique snooker table, lobby café, tailor, beauty salon, art shop, spa and gym, French restaurant with Bund and river views, a Chinese restaurant for Shanghainese and Huaiyang cuisine (Deng Xiaoping once said, “The Huaiyang Cuisine in the Broadway Mansions Hotel Shanghai is one of the best in China”), and a Japanese restaurant. Rooms have iron and ironing board, hairdryer, safe, LCD computer TV with wireless keyboard and internet access.

Peace Hotel

An American, 1930s-style building right on the Bund and Shanghai’s first high-rise, the Peace Hotel is perhaps the most famous hotel in China, and when it opened in 1929 it was certainly the most luxurious –the Cathay Hotel, as it was then, was called “the Number 1 Mansion in the Far East”. Its most famous feature is its Jazz Bar where a veteran band of musicians have played for decades and entertained visitors such as Presidents Reagan and Carter. After a 3-year renovation, it reopened in 2010 as the Fairmont Peace Hotel, a sister to The Savoy in London.