The Ritz-Carlton, Guangzhou
广州富力丽思卡尔顿酒店
An outdoor pool and garden terrace at ground level in Zhujiang New Town, where every competitor's pool is on the 70th floor behind glass.
- Indicative nightly rate
- ¥1,400-2,400 a night
- The collection
- Ritz-Carlton (Marriott)
- Setting
- Guangzhou · 350 rooms
The Ritz-Carlton Guangzhou hotel exterior
Why stay here
350 rooms at No. 3 Xingan Road in Zhujiang New Town, with five restaurants and lounges. Lai Heen is its Michelin-starred Cantonese room. It opened in 2008 and has held Forbes Five-Star continuously since — the brand claims ten consecutive years, a Michelin-affiliated listing says twelve.
The longest unbroken Forbes Five-Star record of any hotel in Guangzhou, and the only one of the CBD four that is a low-rise with a garden and an outdoor pool rather than a tower. Lai Heen is the quieter of the city's starred hotel Cantonese rooms and easier to get into than Jiang.
An outdoor pool and garden terrace at ground level in Zhujiang New Town, where every competitor's pool is on the 70th floor behind glass. In Guangzhou's climate that is the difference between swimming and looking at water.
Rooms worth asking for
Not established — the Club Level rooms are the usual recommendation at this brand but I found no reliable account of which aspect is worth paying for here.
Note the exact room or suite name before opening the booking provider, along with any connecting-room, step-free access or celebration requests.
Dining & the evening ahead
Lai Heen (Cantonese, Michelin-starred), plus four further restaurants and lounges.
Request restaurant availability alongside your stay. Tasting menus, private dining and dietary arrangements should be confirmed separately.
Spa, pool & wellbeing
A full spa and health club with an outdoor pool. Not independently rated at the level of the Mandarin Oriental's.
Ask which facilities are included with your room, whether treatments require advance reservations, and whether any seasonal closures affect your stay.
Photos & films
Videos open on their publisher’s site. YouTube is unavailable in mainland China; watch before travelling.
Guangzhou, at your pace
Destination photography · explore the surrounding city.
The GUANGZHOU Foods Tourists Always Miss | So Much More Than Dim SumJamie · A Guangzhou eating route that goes past the obvious dim sum into congee shops, roast meat counters and neighbourhood stalls, with prices named.Watch on YouTube ↗GUANGZHOU VLOG 🇨🇳 What to Eat & Where to Go 🤩 (a Singaporean's Guide to 广州)itsmeAQ · A Singaporean visitor eats her way through Guangzhou teahouses and night markets while covering the main sights and how to move between them.Watch on YouTube ↗Videos open on their publisher’s site. YouTube is unavailable in mainland China; watch before travelling.
Before you decide
This is a 2008 building, now the oldest of Guangzhou's four luxury hotels, and the sources disagree on its own Forbes record, which suggests the citations are being carried forward rather than checked. Verify the hotel's current brand status and Forbes rating at the time you book: the available evidence is brand pages and listing sites, with no dated 2025 or 2026 reporting on it either way, and one guest review mentions an on-site retail closure. It has no view — the towers took those.
Location. Zhujiang New Town, Xingan Road, by the Guangzhou Opera House and the Canton Tower river frontage.
Prices are indicative, not live availability. Confirm the total including taxes, meals, transfers and cancellation terms on the provider’s checkout before committing.