Lodging & Dining

Weihai sits at the far eastern tip of the Shandong Peninsula, a compact, remarkably clean city that routinely tops China’s air-quality rankings and has quietly become one of the most…

Jinan calls itself the “Spring City” (Quancheng), and the nickname is literal: more than seventy named artesian springs bubble up through the urban core, feeding the moat, the canals, and…

Wuxi is the Jiangsu city that sits on the northern shore of Taihu, China’s third-largest freshwater lake, and in our experience it is the easiest place in the Yangtze Delta…

Shaoxing is the water town that many travelers read about in Lu Xun’s stories before they ever buy a ticket to China. In our experience it is also the most…

Ningbo is one of those Chinese cities that business travelers know well and leisure visitors often skip — a mistake, in our view. This Zhejiang port city stacks a tidy…

Fuzhou rarely tops the typical China itinerary, yet in our experience travelers who add a night or two here are rewarded with a slower, more local side of Fujian. As…

Quanzhou is the Fujian city that keeps surprising people. For centuries it was “Zayton,” one of the great ports of the maritime Silk Road, where Arab, Persian, Indian, and Southeast…

We’ve sent dozens of clients to Jiuzhaigou over the past few seasons, and the single most common mistake we see is booking a room in the wrong place. Jiuzhaigou is…

The first time we sent a client to Yangshuo, she emailed at 6 a.m. to say the mountain outside her window looked fake, like a painted backdrop that someone had…

We have booked Fenghuang for everyone from honeymooners to a photography group chasing the blue hour, and the single piece of advice that never changes is this: stay inside the…