| Green Travel News |
China’s most iconic hotel is reopening … and going green. Shanghai‘s Peace Hotel is now a Fairmont, a leader in green hotel management. The legendary luxury hotel first opened in 1929, an art-deco classic that became known as the “Number One mansion in the Far East. “ Its restored grandeur includes its distinctive copper-sheathed roof, white Italian marble floors and priceless Lalique glass artwork.
As at all Fairmonts, a Green Team of key hotel staff will identify how best to adopt Fairmont’s green best practices.
Renovated Peace Hotel: Lalique glass skylight
The newly revitalized hotel has 270 deluxe guestrooms and suites plus 6 restaurants and lounges. Among these is the much-loved Jazz Bar, a Shanghai institution since the 1930s, and the famed Peace Hall, where the property’s sprung-wooden dance floor still evokes memories of old Shanghai cabarets and gala parties.
A new extension houses a sky-lit swimming pool and a spa. A presidential suite now occupies the 10th-floor penthouse where the hotel’s flamboyant creator and former owner, Sir Victor Sassoon, once lived. The original hotel boasted a number of firsts in its day—including a private plumbing system with water channeled in from a spring outside the city and Shanghai’s first electric elevator, an art deco cage.
photo courtesy of Fairmont Hotels & Resorts
