Located in Shanghai's trendy Jing'An district, The PuLi Hotel and Spa is a long-awaited designer bolthole that's become a firm favourite of the city's fashionistas and socialites. With beautiful interiors, a destination restaurant and attentive, friendly staff (how many haute-design hotels can say that?) this is an absolute gem of an urban hotel.

The facilities

The much-applauded Jing'An restaurant serves slick fusion cuisine, whilst the Long Bar is a must for evening cocktails; it boasts one of the city's most extensive wine and champagne lists. The spa, run by Anantara, is sublime, offering a range of treatments and therapies to soothe even the most stressed-out urbanite. There's also a fitness centre, sauna, steam room and Jacuzzi pool on-site.

The rooms

Each of The PuLi Hotel and Spa's 209 guestrooms share the same ultra-contemporary style as its communal areas. All have LCD flat screen televisions, iPod docks, DVD players, complimentary internet (including wifi access) and rainforest showers in the bathrooms as standard.