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Song Hotels hotels
Classical Chinese tea, ceramics and ink painting shape restrained resorts among lakes and mountains.
Song Hotels draws on the ceramics, ink painting, tea culture, and gardens associated with China’s Song Dynasty to shape contemporary resort stays. Known as 宋品酒店 in Chinese, the brand brings natural materials and restrained interiors into settings whose karst landscapes, lakes, and cultural histories give each hotel its own subject.
7 Song Hotels hotels in 1 country on the Luxury Hotels Atlas, each placed on the six LHA Tiers.
- Owned by H World Group
- Worldwide: 7 hotels in mainland China as of 2026, all five-star full-service resort properties, concentrated in high-profile leisure and cultural-heritage destinations — Song Hotels official site
- On the atlas: 7 Accessible Luxury
History
Song Hotels developed its identity around the cultural traditions associated with China’s Song Dynasty. Restrained colors, garden geometry, ceramics, and ink-wash imagery give the hotels a shared design language. Individual landscapes and private pavilion spaces let that language take different forms from one resort to the next.
Timeline
- 2017 — Dalian Wanda Group sells 76 of its hotels, including properties in Chongqing, Guilin, Kunming, Wuxi, and Chengdu, to Sunac China Holdings for approximately RMB 33.6 billion. The hotels continue to operate as Wanda Vista and other Wanda flags under continued Wanda management contracts.
- 2020 — Two of the future Song Hotels properties, Chongqing Shanqian and Chengdu Qingcheng, open under Sunac as five-star full-service resorts, setting the operational template for what will become the Song brand.
- 2022 — H World Group rebrands from "Huazhu Hotels Group Limited" to "H World Group Limited." The Song Hotels brand becomes formally listed in H World's investor materials as one of the group's two luxury-tier flagships (alongside Steigenberger Icons).
- 2023 — Song Hotel Shanghai Changxing opens on 18 May on Changxing Island in Chongming District, becoming the brand’s first property in the Yangtze River Delta. The group reports seven hotels nationwide at the time of opening.
- 2024 — Song Hotel Chengdu Qingcheng and Song Hotel Wuxi Xuelang are formally operating under the Song Hotels brand, completing the rebadging of the full current portfolio of seven.
- 2025–2026 — Song Hotels remains an exclusively China-domestic brand, recognized within H World Group's luxury brand tier, with no publicly confirmed international expansion.
The houses to know
- Song Hotel Chengdu, Chengdu, China — Dujiangyan places the resort beside the ancient irrigation landscape that helped shape the Chengdu Plain.
- Song Hotel Kunming, Kunming, China — The hotel brings Song’s design sensibility into Kunming’s high-plateau setting.
- Song Hotel Chongqing, Chongqing, China — The hotel gives Song a Chongqing setting near the meeting of the Jialing and Yangtze rivers.
- Song Hotel Wuxi, Wuxi, China — Lake Taihu’s northern shore gives the Wuxi stay a setting with a long fishing and landscape-painting tradition.
- Song Hotel Guilin, Guilin, China — The hotel sits among the karst landscapes of Guilin’s Yanshan district.
- Song Hotel Jinan Fengming, Jinan, China — Highest guest-score property in the portfolio; situated in the Pilot Free Trade Zone of China's "City of Springs"
- Song Hotel Shanghai, Shanghai, China — The hotel brings Song’s hospitality into Shanghai’s Sinan Road neighborhood.
Opening next
- No new Song Hotels openings have been publicly confirmed as of June 2026. H World Group's Q4 2025 announcement reports 2,906 unopened hotels in the group pipeline, but the Song Hotels luxury brand is a leased-and-owned (L&O) category with no announced new signings in press coverage. The Song Hotels official website (songhotels.cn) lists only the existing seven properties.
Every Song Hotels hotel on the atlas
China
- Song Hotel Chengdu — Chengdu · Accessible Luxury
- Song Hotel Chongqing — Chongqing · Accessible Luxury
- Song Hotel Guilin — Guilin · Accessible Luxury
- Song Hotel Jinan Fengming — Jinan · Accessible Luxury
- Song Hotel Kunming — Kunming · Accessible Luxury
- Song Hotel Shanghai — Shanghai · Accessible Luxury
- Song Hotel Wuxi — Wuxi · Accessible Luxury
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