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The Garden Hotel, Guangzhou

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Opening
  
August 28, 1985

Floor count
  
30

The Garden Hotel, Guangzhou

Location
  
368 Huanshi Dong Lu, Guangzhou, China

Owner
  
Guangzhou Lingnan International Enterprise Group Co., Ltd.

Management
  
Guangzhou Lingnan International Enterprise Group Co., Ltd.

Architect
  
Guangzhou Pearl River Foreign Investment & Construction Company

The Garden Hotel, Guangzhou (a member of Lingnan Group) located in the heart of Guangzhou’s business district, is the first and only "Platinum 5-Star Hotel" in Guangzhou and the Headquarters Hotel of The 16th Asian Games.

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The Garden Hotel comprises two buildings of Hotel Tower and Garden Tower and occupies a site area of 48,000 sq.m, a construction area of 180,000 sq.m and a total garden area of 21,000 sq.m. Kapok, the city flower of Guangzhou is also the logo of the Hotel.

Hotel Facilities

The Garden Hotel has 828 guest rooms, 800 apartments and offices as well as 10 restaurants and bars, 10 function rooms and a Convention Hall which can cater up to 1,200 persons for meetings or 85 banquet tables. The Health Club and spa are located in the Roof Garden on the 4th Floor. The recreational facilities of the Hotel include an outdoor swimming pool, gym, steam & sauna room, tennis and squash courts. The Hotel also provides guests with a business centre, shopping arcade, parking lots, banks, post office and ticketing centre.

The hotel lobby is adorned with cultural and artistic features of both Chinese and Western styles. There is a gold-foil marble mural named “Dream of the Red Chamber”. In addition, there are other features in the lobby including the ancient palace style plafond decor in the middle of the lobby ceiling; a white marble mural depicts the social custom of the Lingnan culture and black lacquer pictures.

Featured with Lingnan garden characteristics, the Hotel’s back garden with an area of 10,000 sq.m is known as the “oasis in the city hub”. It features waterfall, rockery, fresco and pavilion.

Celebrities

The Garden Hotel has hosted many VIPs, including:

  • King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
  • H.H. Ahmed Al-Fahad Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, President of the Olympic Council of Asia
  • Mr. Ludwig Scotty, President of Nauru
  • H.E. Mr. Abhisit Vejjajiva, Prime Minister of Thailand
  • Mr. Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, former President of France
  • Mr. Edward Heath, former Prime Minister of Great Britain
  • Mr. Pierre Trudeau, former Prime Minister of Canada
  • Mr. Bob Hawke, former Prime Minister of Australia
  • Mr. Toshiki Kaifu, former Prime Minister of Japan
  • Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, Minister Mentor and former Prime Minister of Singapore
  • Ms. Margaret Beckett, M.P., former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom
  • the Russian singer Vitas
  • References

    The Garden Hotel, Guangzhou Wikipedia