Beijing Hotel NUO
Century-old European elegance close to the Forbidden City
This part of the elegant Grand Hôtel de Pekin of 1917, between the Forbidden City and the Wangfujing shopping street on the city’s main east-west boulevard, has been repeatedly reinvented and spent ten years as Raffles Beijing Hotel. Nowhere else in the city offers quite the same solid interior comfort and sense of East-meets-West history. It counts among its former guests Chinese politician Mao Zedong and Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw.