Chongqing — The Mountain City Where Two Rivers Meet 🌉
A sci-fi skyline stacked into steep hillsides, where the Yangtze and Jialing rivers converge beneath cliffside stilt houses lit up like something out of Spirited Away. Hand-picked stays and a must-see icon — every link takes you straight to Trip.com to check live prices and book.
🏨 Where to Stay
- Niccolo Chongqing ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ — a "hotel in the clouds" above the 60th floor of Chongqing IFS, with 270-degree floor-to-ceiling views over the Yangtze and Jialing confluence, personal butlers, a sky-high pool and spa.
- InterContinental Chongqing Raffles City ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ — family-friendly, smart pick — a Moshe Safdie-designed skyscraper at Chaotianmen Square, directly connected to Raffles City Mall and the metro, with a 43rd-floor heated indoor pool overlooking both rivers and easy walking access to Hongya Cave.
- Conrad Chongqing — family-friendly — inspired by an "Oriental Floating City," suspended between the Yangtze River and Nanshan Mountain in the Nan'an District, with duplex family suites featuring their own kitchens, an indoor pool and panoramic river views from a window-side soaking tub.
- JW Marriott Hotel Chongqing — attainable pick, central — genuinely well-located in Yuzhong District, a short walk from Linjiangmen Metro and the historic June 5th Tunnel site, with five restaurants and easy access on foot to most of the city's sights.
- Sheraton Chongqing Hotel — romantic pick, riverside — twin glass towers on the Yangtze's south bank, blending Chinese and European design, with an indoor pool, spa and river-view suites near the Liberation Monument.
✈️ Flights
- Flights to Chongqing (CKG) — no direct route from Manchester; fly one-stop with Hainan Airlines or another connecting carrier, around 12-17 hours total depending on the route, into Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport.
🎟️ Experiences
- Hongya Cave — an 11-storey stilt-house complex over 2,300 years in the making, built into a cliff at the confluence of the Yangtze and Jialing rivers, transformed by night into a dreamlike, Spirited Away-style spectacle of lantern light reflected on the water.
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