Hot Events And Hotels In Beijing For Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year is celebrated throughout the world by expatriate Chinese and foreigners

alike - but nowhere are the celebrations more intense than in Beijing itself. Some tours of China will allow you to actually stay with a Chinese family and experience what they do for New Years, or you can join one of the many events happening over the period in Beijing.

Simply stepping outside your hotel room is a spectacle in itself - Beijing sounds like a city under siege due to all the fireworks being used! The actual date of New Year's will be 14 February in 2010 (it varies year to year according to the lunar calendar), and in 2010 this marks the beginning of the year of the tiger. Check out Dalian Temple Fair for the procession ... and find a designer Beijing hotel where merrymaking abounds!

Hotel G is one of the newest Beijing boutique hotels in the city, and certainly one of the most original. Scarlett Bar on the Hotel G premises, and Morio, the Japanese fusion cuisine restaurant attached, will be very busy over Chinese New Year ...cooking their own designer twist on dumplings! Scarlett does wine and tapas with flair unmatched in China, and you'll be able to let your belt out afterwards in surroundings that are a true relief from the unbroken swathes of red across the city. Work off the dumplings in the Beijing hotel's gym, with special ergonomic Technogym branded equipment, and then soak away the aches in the pool!

Hotel G is an artistic, designer environment - a huge difference from the plain beiges, frosted lampshades and white cotton sheets of a standard Beijing hotel. The hotel's faade lights up at night time - you'll have plenty of opportunities to see this over the Chinese New Year party season! You can change the color of your room window - red for tradition, or purple, yellow, green and blue are options for the individuals.

You might recognize the characters printed in black on red swathes of material outside homes in the city at Beijing's Hotel Cote Cour in an unexpected place - on the headboard of your bed! The beds have Chinese traditional poetry carved into them at this designer Beijing hotel, and there is just as much personal service throughout the rest of the property. The rooms are filled with design elements like ancient Tibetan carpets and antique brick floors - a different feel than the gorgeous retro-design atmosphere at Hotel G, but equally inspiring.

If you like to be able to escape the noise of the firecrackers (partially, at least!), you'll need to check into a luxury Beijing hotel like the Ritz-Carlton. This is definitely at the budget-busting end of the spectrum, but it will be an experience that you won't forget. The hotel has a 2500 square meter spa (not pool), as well as a choice of three traditional restaurants. The interiors are inspired by the Ritz-Carlton's environment, so in addition to your authentic New Year's experience, you get a very authentic Beijing hotel.

by: Gregory Smyth

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