Shanghai To Get A New Five-Star Hotel

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Mar 16th 2006 at 6:10PM

The Millennium Hongqiao Shanghai is a new five-star hotel that is set to open this summer. It's the first Chinese property for Millennium & Copthorne. The hotel is in Hongqiao, Shanghai’s commercial and residential district and near the Shanghai Exhibition and Convention Centre. The hotel will have 350 rooms and suites and has some interesting features, unusual for Shanghai hotels. It will have a contemporary design and will also have gardens, trees and water features in order to offer guests a quiet retreat in an urban area. The site of the hotel was previously a retreat area for senior Chinese union and political leaders. Ah, capitalism...

[via Travmedia]

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