Shanghai Donghu Hotel - Shanghai Style Garden House

Folded into a walled garden compound on Donghu Road, this five-star property occupies one of the French Concession's rare preserved estates, where plane tree canopies shade the path between the villa buildings and the newer wing.

The indoor pool and sauna sit beneath the garden annex rather than in a basement block, keeping natural light through clerestory windows. Breakfast can be delivered to rooms, a practical detail on mornings when the garden terrace fills early with business guests.

Donghu Road itself is a quiet residential lane one block west of the Huaihai Road retail corridor, with Xintiandi's stone-gate longtang restaurants a twelve-minute walk south. The former Sassoon family estate and the 1930s Jazz Bar on nearby Maoming Road are both within a five-minute walk.