Lodging & Dining

Picking the best hotels in Nanjing is about balancing the city’s layered past with the broad Yangtze that runs along its north edge. The old capital of several dynasties wears…

Picking the best hotels in Kunming is about altitude and lake more than skyline. The city sits at 1,900 meters, warm enough to earn the name Spring City, and most…

Picking the best hotels in Shenzhen starts with accepting that the city is barely forty years old and built to show off. The skyline in Futian and Luohu is the…

Picking the best hotels in Guangzhou is really about choosing a side of the Pearl River. The north bank holds the old town, the shopping streets, and the dim sum…

Choosing the best hotels in Beijing comes down to one practical question: do you want the marble lobby of a global chain, or the quiet of a renovated courtyard behind…

Shanghai packs more genuinely memorable hotels into its river bend than almost any city in mainland China. From the gold-and-marble lobbies of the colonial Bund to the slick rooftop bars…

The first time I needed a bed at 1 a.m. in a Chinese city, I was stranded between a cancelled flight and a 6 a.m. train. The airport hotel wanted…

Most first-time visitors to China build their trip around Beijing, Xi’an, and Shanghai and never see the half of the country that actually feeds them. A China farm stay guide…

Most visitors to China sleep in glass towers that could be anywhere in the world. The reward for looking a little harder is a stay that could be nowhere but…

Hainan is China’s tropical answer to the island getaway, and for foreign visitors it offers something the mainland’s megacities rarely do: long stretches of sand, warm water, and resorts built…