HANGZHOU · FROM ¥1,800 / NIGHT TWIN
Fuchun Resort
A Southern Song scroll rebuilt as a resort — 110 rooms and villas on the Fuchun River, wrapped by the tea-garden course, forty minutes from West Lake.
HANGZHOU · FROM ¥1,800 / NIGHT TWIN
A Southern Song scroll rebuilt as a resort — 110 rooms and villas on the Fuchun River, wrapped by the tea-garden course, forty minutes from West Lake.
WHY THIS HOTEL
A Southern Song scroll rebuilt as a resort — 110 rooms and villas on the Fuchun River, wrapped by the tea-garden course, forty minutes from West Lake.
Jean-Michel Gathy and Jaya Ibrahim — the Aman designers — built this as the first resort to translate Jiangnan architecture into modern form: white walls, grey tiles, lattice screens and a dome of mortise-and-tenon timber over the indoor pool, which is honestly one of the most beautiful hotel pools in China. Conde Nast Traveler rated it the world’s best new hotel the year it opened, and it has aged better than most of the list.
The golf is the reason we book it: the eighteen holes thread through working Longjing tea terraces on hilly ground, a course you can smell before you can see it. Spring arrivals time the round to the harvest — hand-picked Longjing, roasted within sight of the sixth fairway, drunk that evening in the tea pavilion.
Between rounds the resort supplies the day: calligraphy and brick rubbing, boats on the private lake, the Balinese-inflected spa, tai chi on the terrace. It is the Jiangnan night people extend trips for, which is why the journey lingers two nights, not one.
THE GOLF AT THE DOOR
The course is on property and the Hangzhou library sits within an hour. Tee times are booked with the room as one package; the harvest weeks sell out first.
The tea-garden course: hilly terrain over working Longjing plantations, the only layout of its kind in Asia, and the 2003 Golf Digest best new course in China. Walk it with the resort caddies and their tea-field stories.
Hangzhou’s established championship parkland — tree corridors, generous greens and a proper test for the second round of the Jiangnan sequence. Forty-five minutes by car, booked with the room as one sheet.
A graded range and coaching academy sit beside the clubhouse. Arrive stiff from the flight and the resort pros will rebuild the swing before the first card goes out.
BEYOND THE GOLF
This is the part your non-golfers care about — and the reason the trip works as a week, not a series of tee times.
A still indoor pool under a great mortise-and-tenon timber dome — repeatedly named the most beautiful hotel pool in China. Non-golfers plan mornings around it; golfers end their day in it.
Calligraphy, sutra copying, ancient brick rubbing, stove-side tea in Fuchun Pavilion above the resort — the Song-dynasty slow life, staged sincerely rather than for show.
The first destination spa built in China on Chinese herbal principles, with Balinese-trained therapists and the Longjing foot ritual after walking rounds.
The resort lake takes painted boats at dusk, with the pavilion hill on one side and the course running down to the water. The evening photograph writes itself.
ASKED BEFORE YOU ASK
Everything else — room categories, caddie arrangements, that back nine your handicap fears — is one message away.
3 courses are profiled above, and a four-night stay comfortably covers three rounds without a single long transfer. Your planner sequences them so the toughest round lands on your freshest morning.
Yes — that is half the reason we book it. The domed pool is the headline, and the full day programme is planned with the same care as the tee sheet.
From about ¥1,800 per night twin; stay-and-play packages with the tea-garden course from ¥2,980. Everything is quoted as one fixed all-in price — room, rounds, caddies, drivers and transfers — so nothing arrives as a surprise on checkout day.
STAY + GOLF, ONE PRICE
Tell us the dates and the group. Day-by-day plan back within one business day, no deposit, no obligation.
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