Detailed Review
The most impressive of Shanghai hotels, travel connoisseurs around the world take note of Grand Hyatt Shanghai, from the 33 storey central atrium that greets guests to the art deco design, masterfully blended with complementary furnishings and modern sleek lines throughout the interior. The hotels 555 guest rooms and suites are the most spacious in Shanghai, with spectacular views of Bund, Huang Pu River and the city. Rooms at Grand Hyatt Shanghai range from deluxe rooms, executive suites to diplomatic suites, presidential suites and chairman suites.
Grand Hyatt Shanghai's impressive array of restaurants provides guests with an extensive choice of dining options. The hotel offers everything from Italian to Japanese at the collection of outlets at On Fifty Six, Cantonese specialities at Canton, western and regional cuisine at the Grand Cafe, a selection of bars and a vibrant nightspot, PU-J's.
Press Quotes
"By far the most breathtaking hotel, housed from floor 54 to 88 of the King Kong-style Jin Mao Tower in the new financial Pudong district. With floor-to-ceiling glass, it offers fabulous views over the city particularly from the Cloud 9 bar. Its location means at least half an hour in a taxi to get anywhere, but the views make it worthwhile for a couple of nights at least." The Times 05
Independent Reviews
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"The world's tallest hotel, overlooking the busy Huang Pu River in sleepless Shanghai"
In any city other than Shanghai, the Grand Hyatt would be an embarrassing remnant of the ostentatious and overblown excess of the mid nineties. In Shanghai, it's a winning combination proving that hotels can be culturally relevant.
Grand Hyatt Shanghai
By Caroline Major
In any city other than Shanghai, the Grand Hyatt would be an embarrassing remnant of the ostentatious and overblown excess of the mid nineties. In Shanghai, it’s a winning combination proving that hotels can be culturally relevant. Shanghai, the New York of the early twenty first century is a booming, cosmopolitan, appearances driven city almost devoid of a culture outside the business deal. Fifteen years ago, its skyline consisted of apartment blocks and the low-rise heights of the European built Deco buildings of the Bund and the French Concession. Now, it’s possible to navigate the entire city using each of the distinctive, self congratulatory landmark towers built on land and wealth acquired dubiously by entrepreneurial owners. Towering above the newly reclaimed swamp-lands of Pudong is the Grand Hyatt, the jewel in the business crown of the city, where uncountable deals have been done in the dizzy heights of the ‘Cloud 9’ sky-bar, ‘Cucina’ the Italian restaurant, the private rooms of the Chinese restaurant and over container loads of Chivas Regal. The Jin Mao Tower itself is Art Deco inspired. Inside, the hotel is firmly ensconced in the future. Mid nineties minimalism with floor to ceiling glass walls, high technology and glass bathrooms hints at pervading masculinity of the building. More interesting are the Chinese styled rooms featuring walls painted in poetic Chinese script inspiring big vistas and grand scales. The Western rooms languish with neutral toned feature walls of textural fabric and glass topped desks. In room dining features sashimi, there’s a late-night bar serving just desserts and late nineties euro-pop in the gym. The lobby and the bars are some of the busiest in the city. The Grand Hyatt is a revolving door of suited business men meeting and greeting, drinking and dealing and creating a buzz that stinks of new money, and opportunistic greed. The service is attentive, efficient and impersonal. You’re just another wallet revolving through the doors of this ostentacious centre in the latest engine of growth in the global economy. In Shanghai, that can only be a wonderful omen.
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