NINE OF THE BEST CITY PROPERTIES

Portman Ritz-Carlton
Set in the heart of Shanghai opposite the Shanghai Exhibition Centre, the 598-room
Portman Ritz-Carlton is one of the brand’s leading properties and is handy to most city locations. Its modern feel extends to its 5,400 sqm of meeting space, including a 900 sqm atrium and the 991-seat Shanghai Centre Theatre. The hotel will add a further 500 sqm of function space by mid-2008. Aside from its exceptional meeting facilities, the Ritz also excels in cutting-edge events. The most recent of these was a Motorola phone launch for 300 people that transformed the Ritz’s pool area into a large stage with mermaids and huge champagne glasses.
www.ritzcarlton.com

Four Seasons
Four Seasons Shanghai is a well-appointed property that is only five minutes from Nanjing Road and 15 minutes by foot to the French Concession. Set in the middle of the city, its 437 guestrooms are among the best in town. It offers six breakout meeting spaces with a ballroom that can hold 800 theatre style. The Four Seasons also has the largest presidential suite in the city.
www.fourseasons.com/shanghai

Crowne Plaza Fudan
The mid-sized Crowne Plaza Fudan has 09 rooms and is the brand benchmark for China. It was recently awarded ‘The Place to Meet – Crowne Plaza Brand Commitment Award’. This is an internal brand award from InterContinental Hotels Group, recognising that the hotel has significant commitment to the brand in the region.
The hotel is set in a university district and is banking on a lot of business from Siemens,
which is moving its headquarters nearby in the next 12 months. Ideal group size is 300 people and its largest meeting space can hold 600 for a cocktail reception.
www.crowneplaza.com

Le Royal Meridien
Le Royal Meridien is barely a year old but has already established itself as one of the city’s
premier conference and incentive properties.
Its 770 guestrooms make it the second-largest hotel in town. It has a huge array of meeting
spaces on offer including the 80-capacity Parlour Five room, which overlooks People’s Square. Meanwhile the hotel’s biggest space holds 650 theatre style.
The hotel’s construction also means that each meeting room has its own individual shape and style.
www.starwood.com

Westin Bund Center
The Westin Bund Center Shanghai is the brand’s flagship property in Asia Pacific.
In November the Westin will officially open its second tower, taking its capacity to 571 guestrooms. Its naturally lit ballroom can hold 800 people at a time and there are
13 more meeting spaces.
The hotel excels in arranging off-site events with outdoor catering – Ferrari and Swarovski are both recent clients.
This month the hotel will host an incentive group of 600 from Mitre 10 in Australia.
www.westin.com/shanghai

JW Marriott
The luxury experience at JW Marriott Shanghai begins as soon as delegates step into the hotel’s lobby on the 38th floor. The views over Shanghai are superb and are available
from all 342 guestrooms, which extend from floors 41 to 59. There are 13 well-appointed
meeting rooms with the largest space holding 720 classroom style. The views from JW’s
Lounge Bar are ideal for in-house cocktail parties and can hold 100 people.
The hotel has a strong off-site events capability, but the event the F&B team is most proud of was an outdoor L’Oreal party for 1,050 people in June, where they converted a park in Pudong into a huge dining area. Other corporate groups to use the hotel’s services recently include Louis Vuitton, Dior, H&M and Hermès.
www.marriott.com

Hyatt on the Bund
Hyatt on the Bund is the newest property in town and has already made its mark despite
the grand opening not being until the end of October. Styled as a Grand Hyatt, the
property changed its name to avoid confusion with the Pudong property. The hotel has
631 brand-new guestrooms, with the rooms on one side of the building offering unbeatable
views across both the Bund and Pudong.
The high-class meeting facilities follow a wave theme, with no sharp edges to be seen anywhere and centralised coffee-break areas with an open kitchen. There are two ballrooms and eight meeting rooms, with the largest space able to hold 850 for a reception or 800 classroom style.
shanghai.bund.hyatt.com

Four Points by Sheraton Shanghai, Daning
Four Points by Sheraton Shanghai, Daning is in the north of the city and is a 15-minute taxi
ride to the Bund, Huaihai Road and Nanjing Road. The hotel opened in March with 326 guestrooms with modular furniture, flatscreen TVs and high-speed internet access.
The rooms also offer separate bath and shower cubicles, and rainforest showers.
There is 1,600 sqm of meeting space, with the largest area able to hold 350 people.
The hotel forms part of an integrated complex called Life Hub @ Daning, the first
of its kind in Shanghai. The facility consists of the hotel, offices, retail stores, restaurants,
bars and entertainment.
www.starwoodhotels.com

Renaissance Zhongshan Park
Due to open in November, this Renaissance Zhongshan Park will be the brand flagship in
Asia, the highest Renaissance in the world and the brand’s fourth hotel in the city. Its
exterior will also be visible from all over the city, with the high-rise hotel extending from
the 25th to 58th floor.
There will be 1,800 sqm of meeting space with the ballroom able to hold 1,000 people
for a sitdown dinner, making it the largest in Puxi. The Bund is 20 minutes away, as
is the maglev train linking the city to Hongqiao Airport.
www.marriott.com