Grand Mercure Hangzhou Qingshan Lake

Qingshan Lake is where metasequoias planted in the 1960s grow straight out of the water, their roots submerged so the forest appears to float. The Grand Mercure sits three minutes from that shore, a full-service hotel with 330 lake-view rooms and two restaurants, one doing East-West fusion from an open kitchen and another covering Hangzhou and Cantonese cooking across ten private dining rooms. Selected by the Michelin Guide.