Shaoxing's Top Resort Hotel: Pure Chinese Aesthetic | Shaoxing Dongshan Grand View
Xie Lingyun, known for his love of landscapes, once wrote "Ode to Dwelling in the Mountains" in Dongshan, Shangyu, Shaoxing. More than 1,500 years later, the Shaoxing Dongshan Grand View Hotel is built near Dong Lake, embracing the natural scenery and creating a Chinese aesthetic resort that reinterprets "Ode to Dwelling in the Mountains." It has become a unique destination resort hotel in the Shaoxing area.
1. Shaoxing Dongshan Grand View Hotel is located in Dongshan Lake, Shangyu, Shaoxing, surrounded by hundreds of ancient kiln sites. The hotel is built by the lake, quiet and serene. Its unique location between Hangzhou and Ningbo, close to Shanghai, places it in the core of the Yangtze River Delta economic circle. With highways and high-speed railways running through, it is a hub for the surrounding intercity network. It takes just over an hour to drive to the hotel from Hangzhou and Ningbo, and about 2–3 hours from Shanghai. It is 20 km from Shaoxing East Station and 13 km from Shangyu Station.
2. The hotel is built in a purely Chinese style from the outside to the inside. The lobby building is symmetrically divided in the style of a classical garden courtyard, connected to the inside and outside of the patio, with a very Chinese "four waters returning to the hall" design. The lobby bar by the lake has a two-story high atrium structure, laying out the afternoon tea and bar areas, and there are also spacious and well-lit leisure seats outdoors. The lobby bar serves coffee, tea, and afternoon tea during the day, and transforms into a bar at night, with live performances by foreign singers, creating a great atmosphere.
3. The hotel has a total of 152 mountain and water view rooms, ranging in size from 54m² to 300m². All rooms are gateways to natural beauty and spiritual healing, each echoing Xie Lingyun's "Ode to Dwelling in the Mountains," offering views of misty rain, forest-soaked fog, and the whispers of the morning sun; or the enjoyment of winding streams and visits to forest paths. The room design is perfect in detail. The celadon powder box decoration next to the room number is unique, and the celadon utensils in the room, the celadon fruit plates and dishes for snacks, are elegant and full of ancient charm, perfectly integrating the local celadon culture into the room design.
4. The design of the guest slippers is also very thoughtful. The design inspiration comes from Xie Lingyun's "Xie Gong Shoes" in "Ode to Dwelling in the Mountains," continuing the shape of wooden clogs with square shapes for men and round shapes for women, corresponding to the Chinese concept of "round sky and square earth" and the natural view of harmony between humans and nature. The room hardware is also excellent, with Dyson hair dryers, Karl Lagerfeld bath amenities, BOSE Bluetooth speakers, capsule coffee machines, and Huawei HarmonyOS IPTV smart screens and interactive entertainment systems, ensuring the quality of stay and modern convenience.
5. The hotel has two restaurants, designed with simple and natural wooden elements, creating a sense of Chinese Zen-like tranquility, calmness, gentleness, and elegance. The Chinese restaurant "Shan" uses a semi-transparent relationship to create a sense of spatial flow and layering, like a garden tour, with twists and turns. The restaurant specializes in local Jiangzhe cuisine, carefully selecting fresh seasonal ingredients and poultry from its own Dongshan Farm, and using traditional cooking techniques to create innovative and integrated local flavors. In addition to the dining area, there are also several elegant and interesting private rooms, perfect for business banquets and family gatherings.
6. The Western restaurant "Hui" not only provides guests with buffet breakfast and à la carte Western food services, but also offers buffet dinner services on weekends and holidays to meet the dining needs of hotel guests. In addition, it can also provide one-stop customized services for enterprises and teams.
7. The leisure facilities are also diverse and rich, including a 24-hour gym, an indoor heated swimming pool, an outdoor swimming pool open in summer, a kids' club, a KTV, and a chess room. The hotel also has its own Yue Kiln Celadon Museum, which houses more than 1,000 pieces of the owner's private collection, showcasing the evolution and development of celadon, which is well worth a visit.
8. The hotel is a pure resort hotel, and to enrich the stay experience, it has prepared many leisure and exploration activities that you can choose from. There are nearly 7,000 acres of plantations and seasonal picking orchards, where you can experience tea picking in the tea garden, bayberry picking, and various activities such as kiwi, blueberry, and grape picking. You can take a boat trip on Dong Lake, and the island in the lake also offers lakeside yoga and meditation bowl sessions. Outdoors, you can hike in the mountains and fields, and there is a Dongshan Fengwu Hanfu travel photography experience hall in the hotel. The hotel has also carefully planned "Mountain, Lake, Valley" cycling tours, as well as five local cultural discovery routes: "Xie Clan Visit," "Porcelain Source Exploration," "Liang Zhu Love Story," "Water Forest," and "Ancient Road Secrets," and provides guided tours and non-daily activity experience services, which can be said to be quite rich.
9. In terms of operation, it can be seen that the hotel is doing a good job. The service is very good, from the front desk to the restaurant to the guest rooms, the staff is very friendly and enthusiastic. The turndown service is also well done, with a thermos of bedtime dessert soup prepared in advance, and thoughtful sleep eye masks. Overall, Dongshan Grand View is one of the top hotels in the Shaoxing area, a top-notch presence in the local area, and a preferred resort hotel in the Yangtze River Delta region!