Shanghai Peace Hotel
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Wed 23 May 2018 22:37
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Shanghai Peace
Hotel
  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.
 The entrance we chose had a deli and cake shop just
inside.
   Lovely Art
Deco features.
   .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.
  We turned left, took the next corridor
and found ourselves in a massive gallery with a huge floral display – to the left main
reception.
  Giant metallic wall panels.
   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.
 A screen showing “the boys”.
  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.
  We bimbled some
more before getting a taxi to the show that would be our Chinese
finale.
        ALL IN ALL A STUNNING
INTERIOR
A REALLY BEAUTIFUL COLONIAL
SURPRISE |