What is the best luxury hotel in China?

Amanfayun leads our China list with a Fat Score of 17.5/20. It reflects the editorial standards we apply to every property in our curation.

How many luxury hotels does Fat Voyage recommend in China?

We currently feature 4 curated properties in China. Each is scored on service, design, location, dining, and wellness using signals from luxury travel communities, editorial publications, and verified guest reviews.

The Fat Score is Fat Voyage's 0–20 editorial rating. It weighs recent guest experience more heavily, amplifies consensus across multiple high-credibility sources, and reflects the current on-property reality — not marketing.

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4 properties in our curated China collection — ranked by Fat Score and distilled from signals across luxury travel communities, editorial publications, and verified guest reviews.

Fat Score17.0/20avg. score

At the top of our China list sits Amanfayun with a Fat Score of 17.5/20.

Fat Favorite

Aman

Amanfayun

Hangzhou, China

Amanfayun occupies a reconstructed Tang Dynasty village within the sacred grounds of Lingyin Temple, creating perhaps the most spiritually resonant setting in Aman's portfolio. The property stretches along an ancient pilgrimage path through bamboo groves and courtyards, with direct temple access that allows guests to join morning prayers before tourist crowds arrive. While service can feel inconsistent compared to other Aman properties — some staff struggle with English and occasional lapses in training show — the profound sense of place and architectural authenticity more than compensate. The vegetarian restaurant and Hangzhou House both deliver exceptional culinary experiences rooted in local tradition.

Fat Favorite

The Peninsula

The Peninsula Hong Kong

Hong Kong, China

The Peninsula Hong Kong is the grand dame of Asian hospitality — a title it has held since 1928 and continues to earn. The neoclassical lobby, with its gilded columns and chamber orchestra playing from the mezzanine, sets a tone of unapologetic old-world ceremony that no amount of post-modern reinvention can replicate. Service is the hotel's most consistent differentiator: anticipatory, warm without being cloying, and delivered by a staff-to-guest ratio that borders on theatrical — one reviewer noted a staff member overhearing a casual mention of needing water and immediately materializing with some. The harbor views from the tower rooms remain among the most spectacular in the city, and Spring Moon's Cantonese fine dining is widely considered benchmark-level. The one genuine debate is location: the Tsim Sha Tsui address puts guests on the Kowloon side, which some find less convenient than Central, and a handful of reviewers note that the hard product — while far from dated by most accounts — doesn't always feel as fresh as newer competitors like the Rosewood or renovated Four Seasons. For travelers who understand what a great hotel is supposed to feel like, the Peninsula Hong Kong remains the answer.

Fat Approved

Rosewood

Rosewood Hong Kong

Hong Kong, China

Rosewood Hong Kong is the most architecturally arresting hotel in the city — a curved, mirror-clad tower by Kohn Pedersen Fox rising directly above Victoria Harbour in Tsim Sha Tsui, with rooms so generously proportioned and views so theatrical they'll stop you mid-sentence. The Manor Club is the property's strongest differentiator: a 40th-floor lounge with all-day food presentations, butler service, and a personalization culture that genuinely delivers — staff remembering tea preferences, names, and room setups without being asked. The F&B program is the most ambitious in Hong Kong, with eleven restaurants and bars including the Michelin-recommended Legacy House, the standout CHAAT, and the cult-status Butterfly Patisserie. The weakness — and it's a real one, surfaced consistently across multiple recent stays — is uneven frontline service: missed luggage assistance, forgotten breakfast orders, inconsistent housekeeping, and a hierarchy in attentiveness that some guests have found uncomfortable. The property's scale (413 rooms) works against the intimacy its residential design suggests, and peak periods expose staffing gaps that the Four Seasons or Mandarin Oriental rarely show. Book a Manor Club room, ask for a corner harbour-facing suite, and this becomes one of Asia's great hotel stays — but the base experience without those upgrades can feel merely expensive rather than exceptional.

Fat Approved

Rosewood

Rosewood Beijing

Beijing, China

Rosewood Beijing delivers the brand's signature residential luxury in China's capital, with thoughtfully curated rooms that feel more like a sophisticated private library than a hotel. The property excels in the details that matter—spacious suites with genuine art and books, exceptional concierge service that handles complex requests, and what many consider Beijing's finest hotel pool. While the CBD location lacks the cultural immersion of newer hutong properties, it compensates with easy access to business districts and reliable Western-standard service that particularly appeals to first-time China visitors.