Situated in Anting Town, Jiading district, the Crowne Plaza Shanghai Anting Golf is the first five-star hotel and golf course to open in the industry heavy northern district. The hotel is around an hour and a half from downtown Shanghai and within easy access of neighbouring Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces and a convenient base for visitors to the annual Shanghai Formula 1 Grand Prix – only one metro stop away from the Shanghai International Circuit.
Although primarily a business hotel, equipped with 2,000sqm of event and conference spaces, the 415 room resort also boasts a number of facilities to help guests relax in an area of Shanghai not famed for its entertainment options. There are Cantonese, Japanese and western buffet style restaurants and two bars, Dali's a Havana-themed cocktail lounge with a nod to South American painter Salvadore Dali and Links Café a coffee and cake lobby bar. There is also a decent 25-metre swimming pool and jacuzzi to relax by and a fully-equipped fitness centre. It even has its own wedding chapel.
The hotel is also filled with golfing nods to the adjecent Enhance Anting Golf Club: staff wear jaunty pastel checked uniforms (there are even flat caps and plus fours for the porters), international Davis Cup coverage is screened in the bar and there is a selection of strong golf-inspired cocktails all priced from 60RMB.
Rooms are bright and spacious, and decked out with state of the art surround-sound ipod docks and views of the golf course. The traditional business hotel décor is also livened up with quirky Weibo-worthy design touches that will have you whipping out your camera – think a giant-size arm chair that can fit four and matching cigar in the lounge bar and a family of brass ducks taking a walk through the lobby.
Rooms start at 998RMB/night rack rate.
By Claire Slobodian
