First look
Mandarin Oriental signed Xi’an in August 2025 and is aiming for 2029. The site is next to a newly built park in the city’s former imperial district, and the plan runs to 166 rooms and suites, every one with an outdoor terrace, plus seven villas with their own pools.
The architects are ACPV, the studio behind Mandarin Oriental’s Bodrum and Milan hotels, which gives a rough idea of the register. The spa is built around hot-spring pavilions and a 50-metre indoor-outdoor pool, and there are five restaurants, a 1,200-square-metre ballroom, a gallery and a library. The owner is Xi’an Wolong Real Estate.
We haven’t stayed; it is years from opening. What we’ll be watching: whether a ballroom that size tips it towards a banqueting hotel, and whether the villas are a real retreat inside the city.
Before it opens
When does Mandarin Oriental, Xi’an open?
The group’s August 2025 announcement gives 2029 with no month. Several years out, that is a target rather than a date.
What will Mandarin Oriental, Xi’an have?
166 rooms and suites with terraces, seven pool villas, a spa with hot-spring pavilions, a 50-metre indoor-outdoor pool, five restaurants, a 1,200-square-metre ballroom, a gallery and a library, designed by ACPV Architects.
