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Jinling Hotel Nanjing
Six restaurants and a spa above an indoor pool
About this hotel
Six restaurants is an unusually deep bench for a Nanjing hotel, spanning everything from a formal dinner to a quick meal between meetings, and the spa alongside the indoor pool and hot tub gives the wellness floor a proper resort feel rather than a purely functional one. The Nanjing Municipal Museum sits a short taxi ride away, a practical pairing for a morning of culture followed by an afternoon at the pool. On-site shopping and meeting space fill out the tower, aimed squarely at the business travelers who make up much of the guest list on weeknights, though the scale of the amenities works just as well for a longer leisure stay with children or extended family in tow.
- Indoor pool and hot tub
- Spa
- Six restaurants
- Near the Municipal Museum
Our take
This suits travelers who want a full-service five-star stay with genuine dining variety, plus a hot tub that earns its keep after a day at the museum or the old town in cooler weather. The spa adds a level of polish above most towers on this list. Budget travelers wanting a simple room without paying for six restaurants they will not use should look at more understated options instead.
- ✓Book the museum visit for the morning and use the spa or pool in the afternoon to avoid the midday heat.
- ✓Try at least two of the six restaurants during a multi-night stay, the variety is one of the hotel's real strengths.
- ✓Use the hot tub after an evening walk in cooler months, it is genuinely warming rather than just a novelty.
Why we love it
- Six restaurants on site
- Spa alongside the indoor pool
- Seven minutes from the Municipal Museum
- Meeting space and shopping
Why guests love itWe stayed four nights and used almost every restaurant in the building at some point, which says a lot about the variety on offer. The indoor pool and hot tub became our evening routine after museum visits, and the short taxi ride to the Nanjing Municipal Museum made it easy to fit in without losing a whole afternoon of the trip, which mattered given how much we still wanted to see downtown.