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.
