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HUALUXE hotels

Chinese etiquette shapes stays through tea, garden-inspired rooms and spaces for social gatherings.

HUALUXE is IHG's hotel brand built around Chinese etiquette, tea, gardens, and social rooms, rather than a Western luxury template dropped into China. The atlas files fourteen houses, almost all of them in mainland China, plus a Taipei hotel still to open.

14 HUALUXE hotels in 2 countries on the Luxury Hotels Atlas (1 not open yet), each placed on the six LHA Tiers.

History

HUALUXE is IHG's hotel brand built around Chinese etiquette, tea, gardens, and social rooms, rather than a Western luxury template dropped into China. The atlas files fourteen houses, almost all of them in mainland China, plus a Taipei hotel still to open.

Timeline

The houses to know

  1. HUALUXE Shanghai Twelve at Hengshan, Shanghai, China — Twelve at Hengshan opened on 6 December 2012 as a Luxury Collection hotel under Starwood, at 12 Hengshan Road in the former French Concession, on a street lined with plane trees in Xuhui.
  2. HUALUXE Beijing Xinan, Beijing, China — HUALUXE Beijing Xinan is a 21-storey tower of 393 rooms, opened in September 2021 in Haidian, walking distance from Wukesong station on Line 1 and the Cadillac Arena, the city's big indoor concert and sports venue.
  3. HUALUXE Sanya Yalong Bay Resort, Sanya, China — HUALUXE Sanya Yalong Bay Resort opened in 2023 with 222 rooms in Yalong Bay, Hainan, one of China's most concentrated luxury beach strips, sharing the bay with Sheraton, Marriott and St.
  4. HUALUXE Xi'an Tanghua, Xi'an, China — Designed in 1986 by Zhang Jinqiu, one of China's most influential architects and the mind behind the Shaanxi History Museum, as the Tanghua Hotel, part of Xi'an's ambitious 'Three Tang Projects' built beside the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda.
  5. HUALUXE Suzhou Bay Hot Spring Resort, Suzhou, China — The Wonderland Hot Spring at HUALUXE Suzhou Bay is designed after Longqiu Sweet Spring, one of the Songling Eight Scenes, and folded into the look of Suzhou's traditional gardens, with an electric cart carrying guests between the hotel and the springs.
  6. HUALUXE Shanghai Changfeng Park, Shanghai, China — HUALUXE Shanghai Changfeng Park looks onto Changfeng Park from Putuo, with 312 rooms and suites at No.
  7. HUALUXE Kunming, Kunming, China — HUALUXE Kunming sits on the shore of Dianchi Lake in Kunming's Xishan District, backed by the Western Hills, and opened on 28 December 2016 as an early entry in HUALUXE, IHG's first hotel brand built for Chinese travellers.
  8. HUALUXE Yibin, Yibin, China — HUALUXE Yibin opened in June 2022 in the Sichuan city known as the First City on the Yangtze, where the Jinsha and Min rivers meet to form the great river itself.
  9. HUALUXE Xiamen, Xiamen, China — HUALUXE Xiamen opened in 2017 on Haicang Avenue, a harbourside high-rise finished in 2016 in Xiamen's Haicang District, with 349 rooms that face the harbour.
  10. HUALUXE Haining, Haining, China — HUALUXE Haining opened on 1 December 2024 beside Haining Leather City as the first HUALUXE in the Hangzhou-Jiaxing-Huzhou belt, 276 rooms at 218 Qian Jiang West Road, with moon gates in the design and motifs drawn from the Qiantang tide, whose surge is watched each autumn, and the local shadow puppets.

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