Aman Summer Palace (安缦颐和)

The Aman Summer Palace, housed in numerous classical courtyards, is only steps away from the imperial Summer Palace. Originally built for guests who came to the Summer Palace for an audience with Empress Dowager Cixi, these courtyards are enveloped in unworldly beauty and peaceful serenity.


Most of rooms feature four-poster queen-size beds and large Ming-style wardrobes. In its guest rooms and suite rooms designed with wood screens and bamboo shutters, simple charm and nostalgia pervade every corner of them. Standing here, you would seem to feel the romance of another world edging in through the mist of time and plunge you into the old days. Near a pond a pavilion is built for ancient music. At the Guyue pavilion (ancient music pavilion), the Chinese musicians would play the sizhu (literally silk and bamboo, a traditional Chinese instrumental music) in afternoon and evening.