Shangri-La Dalian

Zhongshan Square sits right outside the door, a Parisian radial plan laid down by Russian engineers and ringed by Japanese neoclassical civic buildings, which means the view from this 560-room luxury hotel is one of the stranger skylines in China. Rooms look out over that colonial palimpsest or the hotel's landscaped gardens. Shang Palace handles Chinese cooking; YISEA does Japanese. The Dong Gang Business District is a short walk away.