Hotels we recommend
Where to stay in Beijing
Two hotels in Beijing we would book for a client, in Chaoyang and Jianguomenwai. Every one books through a partner programme, which adds an upgrade where one is free, daily breakfast for two, a hotel credit and late checkout, at the hotel's own rate.
- Hotels
- 2
- With partner perks
- 2
- Newest
- 2007
The hotels
Chaoyang
The Ritz-Carlton, Beijing
2007 · 305 rooms
A 305-room hotel at China Central Place in Chaoyang, inside Beijing's central business district on Jianguo Road, next to the SKP shopping centre. The interiors by HBA follow a classic Ritz-Carlton style with an English manor-house lobby lounge, and the building also houses the Italian restaurant ATTA and the two-MICHELIN-star restaurant Jingji.
Marriott STARS
Jianguomenwai
The St. Regis Beijing
1997 · 258 rooms · Renovated 2008
A 258-room hotel on Jianguomenwai Dajie in Beijing's diplomatic quarter, opened in October 1997, with St. Regis butler service and a 6,000 sq m landscaped garden. Its Iridium Spa draws a natural hot spring from 1,500 metres below ground, and suites make up 102 of the keys.
Marriott STARS
On our list
Hotels in Beijing we rate but have not yet stayed in, drawn hollow on the map. The hotels above are first-hand; these are where we are going next. We book them as we book the rest.
Caochang Hutong, Qianmen
Three MICHELIN Keys and Forbes Five-Star; on our list for forty-two hutong courtyard houses on the Central Axis.
Forty-two hutong courtyard houses on Caochang inside the Central Axis, four fifths of them original fabric. Opened 2024, and the only Mandarin Oriental you enter through a lane.
Liangma River
Two MICHELIN Keys and Forbes Five-Star; on our list for Enzo Enea's gardens on the Liangma River.
Citterio and Viel's hotel in the Genesis Beijing complex, with Enzo Enea's gardens along the Liangma River and a Tadao Ando gallery.
Chaoyang
Two MICHELIN Keys; on our list for Koolhaas's CCTV tower from the top suite.
The lower floors of the Jing Guang Centre in Chaoyang, opened 2014, with Koolhaas's CCTV tower in view from the top suite.
Mentougou
Two MICHELIN Keys and Relais & Châteaux; on our list for seventeen courtyards of a former village near Tanzhe Temple.
Thirty-eight rooms around seventeen courtyards of a former village in the Mentougou hills, a kilometre from Tanzhe Temple.
Wangfujing
Mandarin Oriental Wangfujing, Beijing
Forbes Five-Star; on our list for rooms over the roofs of the Forbidden City.
Seventy-three rooms that HBA styled on a Qing courtyard mansion, many looking out over the roofs of the Forbidden City.
Photo: The Peninsula Beijing / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)Wangfujing
Forbes Five-Star; on our list for the all-suite hotel on Goldfish Lane.
On Goldfish Lane off Wangfujing, rebuilt in 2017 as an all-suite hotel, goldfish worked into the rooms after the Qing mansion opposite.
What to know
The Ritz-Carlton, Beijing and The St. Regis Beijing. Each has its own page with the rooms, the restaurants and what booking through us adds.
Of the hotels we recommend, The Ritz-Carlton, Beijing, which opened in 2007. The St. Regis Beijing followed in 1997.
The Ritz-Carlton, Beijing: its rooms start at 48 square metres. The St. Regis Beijing from 30.
The Ritz-Carlton, Beijing (Marriott STARS) and The St. Regis Beijing (Marriott STARS). Booked through us, each adds a room upgrade where one is free, breakfast for two each day, a hotel credit and early check-in or late checkout when the hotel can give it, at no extra cost to you.
The Ritz-Carlton, Beijing: Beijing Capital (PEK), 30 km, about 30 minutes; Beijing Daxing (PKX), 45 km. The St. Regis Beijing: Beijing Capital (PEK), 25.6 km; Beijing Daxing (PKX), 60 km; the hotel runs airport transfers to both.
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