Luxury Shanghai — Amanyangyun, Peninsula, and Bulgari
An ancient relocated village next to the venue, and 1920s Bund glamour rebuilt
Three hotels anchor Shanghai's high end for a Masters trip, and the most remarkable one isn't even downtown — it's a few minutes from Qizhong's gates.
Amanyangyun is the real story here. It sits at 6161 Yuanjiang Road, on the same street as the venue itself (5500 Yuanjiang Road) and barely over a kilometre away — easily the closest genuinely exceptional hotel to the tournament, and not by a small margin. The property exists because of a decade-long conservation project: when a reservoir threatened to flood a cluster of Ming and Qing dynasty villages near Fuzhou, 700km away, Aman and a Fuzhou-born entrepreneur had 50 antique villas dismantled stone by stone and 10,000 camphor trees — including an 80-ton "emperor tree" — dug up and relocated here, then rebuilt and replanted across 25 acres. Guests stay inside genuine centuries-old houses, not a themed replica of one. Rates start around US$940/night — this is a real luxury booking, not a convenient near-venue fallback — but for anyone building a trip where the accommodation is as much the point as the tennis, nothing else in Shanghai offers this combination of proximity and story. Rated 4.6 from 60 Google reviews. See live rating and reviews on Google Maps
The Peninsula Shanghai opened in late 2009 as the first entirely new building constructed on The Bund in 60 years — a deliberate architectural statement, built in the Art Deco style that defines the Bund's 1920s-1930s buildings, using stone from the same original quarries. It's also a real return: the Peninsula brand had managed the Art Deco-inspired Astor House in Shanghai decades earlier, before exiting the city — this hotel closed nearly three-quarters of a century of absence. The 14th-floor Sir Elly's Terrace is the reason to book a room here even if you're not staying long: an intimate, timber-decked outdoor bar directly above the hotel's fine-dining room, with unobstructed views across the Huangpu to the Pudong skyline. See live rating and reviews on Google Maps
The Bulgari Hotel Shanghai is the newer, more architecturally daring Bund-area choice — a 48-floor tower with 82 rooms (including 19 suites) that opened in June 2018 on the banks of Suzhou Creek, minutes from The Bund. Bulgari didn't just build a tower; they restored the adjacent Chamber of Commerce building, a genuine early-20th-century landmark, and turned its Italian gardens and a triple-height ballroom into part of the hotel's own footprint. Guest rooms mix black lacquer cupboards with Tuscan Calacatta marble — an explicit East-meets-West design language rather than a generic international-luxury template.
Why it's special
Most "luxury hotel" write-ups are interchangeable — a list of amenities that could describe any five-star property anywhere. These three aren't interchangeable: one is a relocated 300-year-old village saved from a reservoir, one is a faithful architectural return after a 75-year absence, and one is a restoration project disguised as a hotel opening. Knowing the real history behind each building is what separates picking a luxury hotel because of its star rating from picking one because its specific story actually matches what you want from the stay — and knowing that Amanyangyun is a five-minute drive from Qizhong, not a marketing claim about being close to everything, is the kind of fact a real Shanghai Masters guide should lead with rather than bury.
Insider tips
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Amanyangyun's location is the actual headline, not a footnote — factor in that a five-minute drive from Qizhong on tournament days is worth more during a Masters week than it might read as on paper.
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Book Sir Elly's Terrace at the Peninsula for sunset even if you're not a hotel guest — it's open to outside diners/drinkers weather permitting, and the Pudong skyline view rivals anything on The Bund's public promenade.
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The Bulgari's Bao Li Xuan restaurant, inside the restored Chamber of Commerce building, serves Cantonese and Shanghainese dishes in a genuinely historic room — worth booking even as a standalone dinner, not just for hotel guests.
Practical info
- Cost
- Amanyangyun: from approx. US$940/night. Peninsula and Bulgari: both run ¥4,000-8,000+ per night for standard rooms, significantly higher for suites — genuine top-tier Shanghai pricing across all three.
- Access
- Book directly via each hotel's official site for the best rate guarantee, or call the reservations lines above directly for suite-tier stays.
What to avoid
Don't assume the Bund-area hotels are automatically the convenient choice and Amanyangyun is the far outlier — for a trip actually built around watching tennis at Qizhong, the reverse is true: Amanyangyun is the only one of the three you can walk out of and be at the gates in minutes, while Peninsula and Bulgari both mean the same 45-90 minute journey as every other Bund-area hotel in this pack.
