Shanghai Peace Hotel

Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Wed 23 May 2018 22:37
Shanghai Peace Hotel
 
 
 
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 On opposite sides, at the top of Janjing Street, nearest The Bund, stand the North and South buildings that make up the Peace Hotel, an iconic building that boasts a beautiful interior, in we went.
 
 
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The entrance we chose had a deli and cake shop just inside.
 
 
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Lovely Art Deco features.
 
 
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.Pictures from yesteryear and Sir Victor Sassoon.
 
 
Shanghai’s Legendary Landmark, since 1929. The story of the Fairmont Peace Hotel is also the story of Shanghai, one of the great cities of the world, the “Paris of the East”, the “Pearl of the Orient”.
Originally known as The Cathay Hotel, it was indeed the most glamorous hotel of 1930s Shanghai. The Cathay Hotel was the enduring vision of Sir Henry Sassoon, and the guests at The Cathay Hotel were the rich and famous – adventurers and travelers, members of the Shanghai high society, the swanky, the chic and the talented, artists, diplomats and celebrities – the elite of the world.
To commemorate the successful holding of the first International Symposium on World Peace, the government renamed their favourite hotel “The Peace Hotel” in 1956. Shanghai hosted the 2010 World Expo and the famous hotel on The Bund re-opened as the “Fairmont Peace Hotel” on the 28th of July 2010. It shimmers with the years that have made history. The iconic green copper pyramid of the Fairmont Peace Hotel stands as witness to the style, energy and grace of Shanghai. 
 
 
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We turned left, took the next corridor and found ourselves in a massive gallery with a huge floral display – to the left main reception.
 
 
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Giant metallic wall panels.
 
 
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To our right, a dome holding jazz instruments. Above hung two framed wonders – The Guinness World Records certificate for the hotel having the oldest jazz band and a newspaper article featuring one of the band, who “still keeps beat” aged 94.
 
 
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A screen showing “the boys”.
 
 
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Dining: Two course lunch twenty-seven pounds, seventy-two and the three course is thirty-three fifty-five. Dinner the seafood basket is one hundred and two pounds, fifty-one. Sunday brunch is just shy of seventy pounds and champagne brunch is ninety-three pounds.
 
 
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We bimbled some more before getting a taxi to the show that would be our Chinese finale.
 
 
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ALL IN ALL A STUNNING INTERIOR
                     A REALLY BEAUTIFUL COLONIAL SURPRISE