Fairmont Peace Hotel

Shanghai, China. Located on the Bund at the corner of Nanjing Road, facing the Huangpu River and the Pudong skyline.

Fairmont Peace HotelShanghai, China

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Practical information

270 rooms including 39 suites; the Cathay was famed for its “national suites”, each decorated in a different foreign style.
The Cathay Room for French cuisine and afternoon tea, Dragon Phoenix for Shanghainese cooking, and the Jazz Bar with its nightly Old Jazz Band.
Peace Hall ballroom on the eighth floor, swimming pool, spa and fitness centre in a rear extension.
Located on the Bund at the corner of Nanjing Road, facing the Huangpu River and the Pudong skyline.

9 dates, written by Grand Hotels of the World from the sources below.

1926
Sir Victor Sassoon begins building Sassoon House on a full block of the Bund, designed by Palmer and Turner in reinforced concrete.
1929
Sassoon House is completed; its fourth to ninth floors house the Art Deco Cathay Hotel, crowned by a copper pyramid roof.
Early years
Noël Coward writes his play Private Lives at the Cathay; the hotel later inspires Vicki Baum’s 1937 novel Shanghai ’37.
1952
After the 1949 Communist takeover, the building passes to the Shanghai Municipal Government.
1956
It reopens as a hotel under the name Peace Hotel.
1966 – 1976
During the Cultural Revolution, the Gang of Four use the hotel; Zhang Chunqiao runs the Shanghai Commune from here.
2007
The hotel closes for a three-year restoration of its façades, rooms, lobby and restaurants.
2010
The North Building reopens as the Fairmont Peace Hotel; the south building, the former Palace Hotel, becomes the Swatch Art Peace Hotel.
May 2025
Owner Jinjiang International and Accor announce a renovation, after which the hotel is due to become Raffles Peace Hotel Shanghai in 2027.