Peace Hotel  
 
A Shanghai landmark for nearly a century, the Peace Hotel is known as the most famous hotel in China. This hotel is located in the prime downtown Shanghai - situated at the doorstep to the Bund - Shanghai's most famous landmark. The stretch of road outside the hotel is called Nanjing Road - the busiest pedestrain shopping mall in Shanghai.

The Peace Hotel is composed of two former hotels separated by a street. The North and the South Buildings were built in 1929 and 1906. There are 380 well furnished rooms - the suites in particular are categorised as National Deluxe Suites and named as Chinese, British, American, French, and Indian, etc., all elegantly decorated and carefully preserved in their original style in the 1930's.

Strolling to Peace Hotel, you may either sit with a sip of fragrant coffee and enjoy the Jazz music, popular in 1930's and 1940's in the Jazz Bar, or enjoy the cocktail and the excellent view of the Bund and river in Shanghai Night Bar. After recent renovation, guest here will enjoy a full range of facilities that include a fully equipped gymnasium, beauty saloon, massage, back store, and business center. Peace Hotel is an ideal place for work, stay, leisure, entertainment and shopping for businessmen.

The 12-story North Building, built in the Gothic style of the Chicago School, first opened as the Cathay Hotel in 1929. It symbolized the most luxurious "Number One mansion in the Far East" Its granite exterior with its copper-sheathed roof rises 77 meter above ground level.

The 7-storey South Building, designed in European Renaissance, first opened as the Palace Hotel in 1906. The first owner of the Cathay Hotel was Victor Sassoon, a Jew of British. Entering through the revolving hall gate, there is the white floor of Italian marble, and the copper-colored chandelier. In former days, Cathay Hotel was well known in Shanghai for its luxury and magnificence. It accommodated mostly distinguished guests from countries all over the world, including state men, financiers, entrepreneurs, and Chinese social celebrities, such as General Marshall, Charlie Chaplin, and Bernard Shaw. And it was in Cathay Hotel that Noel Coward completed his famous play "Private Lives".

The Palace Hotel would be the oldest hotel in Shanghai which still exist. The building witnessed a number of historic events such as the first International Conference of Drug Crackdown, the rally to celebrate the swearing of President Dr. Sum, the ceremony of engagement between Chiang Kai-shek and Madam Song. After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the North Building reopened in 1956, and the South Building in 1965, both operating under the name of the Peace Hotel. And after recent renovation, all the rooms and restaurants are furnished with first-class facilities to provide guests with the best comfort and convenience. The past and today, the East and west would be of perfect harmony within the Peace Hotel.