Suite Talk: Park Hyatt
The magnificent Shanghai World Financial Centre is a mesmorising sight on the Shanghai skyline. Rising up towards the stars and dwarfing the surrounding skyscrapers, it’s hard to not take this building as a reference point for your hopes and your aims, to sigh, raising your head towards the heavens and thinking, “One day.”
But alas, we only live once, and whatever the occasion: you’re looking to treat your partner, you frequently come to Shanghai on business or you’re simply looking to be inspired, Park Hyatt, reaching from the 79th to the 93rd floor, is the highest hotel across mainland China, offering unrivalled views to any other hotel in Shanghai, and is the perfect place to come to get to know the city really intimately, up above it all. 
The awe factor of Park Hyatt is an experience that you’ll remember for a lifetime, and I don’t make a statement like that lightly. The rooms designed by award winning interior designer Tony Chi of tony chi and associates, are stylishly furnished in creams and deep walnut hues with giant modern canvases adorning the walls. You’ll feel like a celebrity as you stroll about your 100 square metre plus suite, more so once you’ve experienced a bath in the oversized bathtub with the complimentary bath salts and Aromatherapy Associates cosmetics that the Park Hyatt offers. Cosying up then with an espresso from your in-room coffee machine in your Egyptian cotton robe and slippers, you can watch the sun going down over Shanghai, or enjoy a movie on one of the three plasma TV screens in the living room, bedroom or bathroom, and order from a selection of delicacies on the 24 hour in-room dining menu, or from the award winning 100 Century Avenue restaurant.
A night’s sleep in the Park Hyatt between the 500 thread count cotton sheets is pretty unforgettable, but what you’ll be telling your friends about are the high-tech Japanese toilets in your room, with automated lids and heated seats. No details are left spared, and with high class amenities everywhere you look, adjusting to normalcy after a night in this little taste of luxury will prove difficult.
But once you’ve watched the sun rise over the Huangpu River from an 80 storey high, surveying your surroundings like a king in his castle, you’ll start to believe your dreams are that little bit more reachable.
RMB 12,000 upwards. Park Hyatt Shanghai, 100 Shijie Dadao, near Dongtai Lu. Tel: 6888 1234, Web: http://shanghai.park.hyatt.com
