Detailed Review
Located in one of the world's most exciting cities, this hotel is just 45 minutes from two international airports and situated in a posh neighbourhood of well-known shops and celebrated restaurants. The Nanjing Pedestrian Street, Shanghai Old Town, Oriental Pearl TV Tower, Shanghai Zoo and many other interesting places are near from this property.
All the 570 accommodation units at The Westin Shanghai are loaded with abundant personal amenities that ensure utmost comfort and luxury. Attentive room service for your convenience is also offered here.
For your dining pleasure, the hotel offers a choice of superb restaurants serving international, Asian and Italian cuisine. A bar with the exclusivity of a club, the Niche is ideal for sunset hour drinks or evening cocktails with live jazz and contemporary sounds.The Westin Shanghai comprises 13 function rooms that are furnished with modern equipments and are perfect for meetings or special events. The Banyan Tree Spa at this hotel offers soothing regional treatments and promises rejuvenation and relaxation. You can also renew your total health and wellness in the state-of-the-art two-level Westin Workout, which comprises Jacuzzis, sauna and steam rooms.
Independent Reviews
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"Slightly whimsical and ultra lavish, this luxury hotel has a great location, close to the glamorous bars and restaurants of the Bund."
Climb the glass staircase for an eyeful of Shanghai's finest figures doing their thing.
The Westin Shanghai
By Caroline Major
When Giorgio Armani opened his first Chinese store on Shanghai’s Bund, he stayed at the Westin. Apart from the fact that the hotel is just a stroll away from the increasingly glamorous Bund, The Westin is the currently hip hotel in Shanghai. In winter, even the door-girls wear mink.
The lobby is a thriving micro cosmos of snappily dressed crowds, semi- theatrical seating, crazy palms and the buzzing busy successful air of all that is good in boom town. From overhead, you could look through the glass atrium and observe the activity. For the rest of us, a trip up the fancifully lit glass staircase yields four levels of vantage points.
In China hotels are about more than checking in to check out for a good nights sleep. They are status symbols, with the majority of business deals done in private restaurant rooms. The well heeled come to eat, entertain and pamper, so a successful hotel must have fantastic facilities. Part of the Westin’s success are the Sunday brunch in the Lobby restaurant, East; the Pan Asian dining room overlooking the city, Prego; a very credible Italian restaurant, the Taste Deli and like a cherry on the top, The Banyan Tree spa.
If it is a good nights sleep you are after, the much acclaimed and trend setting ‘Heavenly’ beds at Westin deliver. Crisp but soft white linen in a rosy wood, purple and gold surround lend the rooms and suites a sexily moody ambiance. Sliding wood panel doors let you separate the sitting room from the bedroom and the walkthrough bathroom. They are not the biggest rooms in the city but certainly some of the best designed. Aeron chairs at the desk and fast reliable internet (important here) make working in your room a treat.
Book ahead to stay at the Westin. They have the most sought after rooms in the city.
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