The Best Hotels Near InterContinental One Thousand Island Lake Resort, by the Record
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A resort on a peninsula jutting into Qiandao Lake, where the view from your room is a thousand forested islands and distant peaks doing their best ink-wash painting impression. The 264 rooms lean modern-traditional but quietly, so nothing competes with the windows. Bathrooms run to rain showers and separate tubs, and there's a nine-treatment-room spa with indoor and outdoor pools for when the scenery alone feels insufficient.
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Qiandao Lake's thousand-plus islands are actually submerged mountain peaks, and somewhere beneath the water sits an entire Han Dynasty city, perfectly preserved. The Moxy is a design-forward hotel inside the Qingxi Yintai City complex, with lake-facing rooms and a Ferris wheel in the yard. Bar Moxy pulls double duty as the front desk, which is the brand's move. Hangzhou is two hours by road, making this a proper escape rather than a stopover.
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Thousand Island Lake spreads across a flooded valley holding more than a thousand islands, and this voco hotel sits on a peninsula with water on three sides of it. The architecture borrows whitewashed walls and dark timber from the regional Hui style, folded into something contemporary. Rooms run to freestanding tubs and lake views; family rooms add bunk beds and play tents for guests who travel with people under four feet tall.
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The outdoor pool here is enormous enough that you'd briefly forget you're in one of southern China's largest cities. This Shangri-La property runs to over 700 rooms, a putting green, tennis courts, and grounds lush enough to feel more resort than urban hotel. Business travelers come for the nearby exhibition center; everyone else comes to escape downtown traffic. The metro is a short walk away when the city beckons.