From the editors of Condé Nast Traveler:

Its Shanghai sibling may be higher and flashier, but this hotel soars to notable heights of its own, quite literally, with a lobby on the sixty-third floor and 237 guest rooms filling the thirty-seventh to forty-ninth floors of the Beijing Yintai Centre. The most jaw-dropping view is from the sixty-sixth floor's China Grill—Beijing's highest restaurant—which is topped off with a glass pyramidal ceiling and has a menu of everything from steak to sushi and steamed dumplings. Two 24-hour fitness centers—one on the sixth floor and the other on the sixtieth—have sunlit swimming pools, and the sixth-floor option also contains eight treatment rooms designed especially for traditional Chinese medicine. The smallest bedrooms measure nearly 500 square feet, with sliding blond-wood doors, sexy white leather love seats, and fun automatic Japanese toilets (and of course those vertiginous views).—2009 Hot List

Amenities: Pool, Spa