{"id":78515,"date":"2018-09-27T15:30:56","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T13:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/?p=78515"},"modified":"2024-07-03T10:34:19","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T08:34:19","slug":"peking-hotellerie-mode-occidentale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/peking-hotellerie-mode-occidentale","title":{"rendered":"Hotels in Beijing: a more westernised taste"},"content":{"rendered":"

On a Friday evening, the cars speed along Sanlitun Road. Ultra-fashionable young people are dropped off in front of the new restaurants opening one after the other in the most popular district of the moment. Here's the epicentre of modern Beijing<\/strong>This is where the InterContinental Sanlitun opened at the end of 2016, in an extravagant tower that looks like a futuristic beehive. The beautiful lobby, scented with green tea, attracts both travellers and local customers, curious about the five restaurants on offer. The atmosphere is fresh, dominated by wood, leather, light marble and brass. Plants and brightly coloured carpets add a playful touch to the place, a retro chic trend that is matched by a team of young butlers and concierges, ready to help travellers at any time of the day or night.<\/p>\n

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Ideally located in a tower overlooking the bustle of Sanlitun, the InterContinental welcomes business travellers and local guests in an immense lobby that resembles a living room. With its contemporary atmosphere, the hotel brings a touch of sophistication that is unmistakable in this fashionable district.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The rooms, 299 in all, feature deep beds set against beige leather heads, worked to give the metaphor of a beehive. Everything here is based on technology: the latest-generation sound system, interactive TV, lighting designed to eliminate jet lag. The same research and attention to detail can be found at 22e<\/sup> On the first floor, in the sublime business lounge, where meals and drinks are served throughout the day. In this cocoon of soft colours<\/strong>The view over Sanlitun is one of blissful silence after the exhausting days of the capital of 23 million souls...<\/p>\n

This serenity, this beauty that is both poetic and very contemporary, was sorely lacking in Beijing, where until now the glitz was the order of the day in luxury hotels. So in 2017, after the InterContinental Sanlitun, a Bvlgari Hotel was inaugurated, the brand's fourth in the world at the time and first hotel in mainland China, before being joined last June by an establishment in Shanghai. Also in Shanghai, the atmosphere is one of great sobriety<\/strong>In the vast lobby, with its dark leather sofas, the hotel's clean lines are enhanced by huge black and white photos. Just 119 rooms, expertly managed by butlers on hand 24 hours a day. This is a far cry from the liner hotels of the 1990s and 2000s. The sense of exclusivity is all the more acute. And the jewel in the Italian crown is a private garden overlooking a river in the middle of the city. Luxury in its purest form.<\/p>\n

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The rooms at the InterContinental Sanlitun combine sober, elegant decor with the latest technology.
high-tech innovations, including lighting designed to reduce fatigue caused by jet lag.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Four Seasons, which opened in 2013 in the embassy district, is a little more lavish, although with a certain simplicity, and is also a fine addition to Beijing's hotel scene. Everything is hushed,<\/strong> decorated with works of contemporary Chinese art in a d\u00e9cor inspired by the Tang dynasty. Very much in vogue in today's hotel world, the Four Seasons offers a VIP service at the airport, allowing business travellers an express passage through security, as well as a butler service around the clock.<\/p>\n

As if to confirm this trend, the very famous Peninsula in Beijing, inaugurated in 1989, has just undergone a complete overhaul and switched to 100 % suites. The 525 rooms it once had have been transformed into 230 flats, all of them sumptuous, some of them arranged as lofts. The transformation of this establishment, which the Chinese simply call \"the palace\", is also a way of celebrating the thirty years of existence of the Peninsula Beijing and of further enhancing its level of excellence and exclusivity. No fewer than 600 employees are involved in the hotel's daily operations. to make the customer experience memorable<\/strong>. As with all the Peninsulas in the world, the Beijing Peninsula is all about clarity and noble materials. In the large, pure lobby, a sculpted jade panel stretches from floor to ceiling. As the hotel's address is on Goldfish Street, ceramic calligraphy depicting these animals, symbols of prosperity, can be seen here and there in the rooms.

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