Do any friends know that Shanghai Peace Hotel can be visited for free? I don't want to stay. I want to go to the top floor to see the panoramic view of the Bund.

You can visit for free, but you can't go to the top floor because it's not open to the public.

The North Building of Peace Hotel was built at 1929, formerly known as Hua Mao Hotel. It is a Gothic building of Chicago School, 77 meters high, with 12 floors. The hotel is located at the intersection of Nanjing East Road and the Bund in Shanghai. 1929, the Jewish businessman Victor Sassoon conceived and founded a hotel called "Guotai Hotel", which was later the Peace Hotel.

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From Sun Yat-sen to Lu Xun, from Chaplin to Montgomery, Old Peace has many anecdotes of celebrities, which are connected with the historical and cultural blood of a city. Now, "Old Peace" has been renovated and continues to interpret the legendary cultural landmark of a city. The newly renovated North Building of Peace Hotel was built in 1929, formerly known as Sassoon Building, and was once one of the Sassoon foreign firm properties managed by British Jew Victor Sassoon.

The fifth to seventh floors of the building used to be the Huamao Hotel, which was once the most luxurious hotel in Shanghai, and was famous for its rooms with different styles in nine countries, including Chinese, English, American, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Indian and Japanese.

The building 1952 was taken over by the Shanghai Municipal People's Government, resumed business on 1956, and was renamed Peace Hotel. 1992 The World Hotel Organization listed Peace Hotel as one of the world famous hotels.

People's Daily Online-Shanghai legendary cultural landmark: Peace Hotel has been renovated as before.