It isn’t too late to make arrangements to attend the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, August 8th to 24th, though you’ll pay a premium for waiting until the (relative) last minute.
The hotel with vacancies closest to most sporting venues is the Best Western Olympic Stadium Hotel. We found rooms available during the games for $627 a night. That makes the Best Western your best Olympic hotel option.
Other hotels of reasonable quality in the Beijing city center include the Red Wall Hotel (5,800 yuan / US$805), the Forbidden City Hotel (5,858 yuan / US$815) and the Howard Johnson Regal Court Hotel (6,000 yuan / US$835).
Special romantic hotels are discounting rooms from February 8th through to February 18th — including on Valentine’s Day on February 14th.
Some cities to check out:
- San Francisco — as low as $58
- San Antonio — as low as $39
- Boston — as low as $79
- Las Vegas — as low as $27
Langham Hotels International, the legendary hotel chain known for its classically sophisticated properties, is going hip. And it is choosing Shanghai as the place to do it with a plan to open the chain’s first art-deco boutique hotel in the Chinese mega-city. The Langham Yangtze Boutique Shanghai will have a prime location across from People’s Square near the Shanghai Art Museum and Grand Theatre. The 101 room property will feature a world-class spa and rooftop banquet room. We look forward to seeing how the hotel chain founded in 1865 does with the art-deco style when the Langham Yangtze opens in mid-2008.

