Swire Hotels partners with Cathay Pacific Airlines

Cathay Pacific Airlines
From August 2018 to March 31, 2019, Swire Hotels and Cathay Pacific Airwayspresent a special offer on flights from the U.S. to Hong Kong, Shanghai, Chengdu, and Beijing. Guests taking advantage of this promotion will enjoy additional amenities while staying at The House Collective and EAST properties by Swire Hotels.

Swire Hotels partnered with Cathay Pacific to bring its guests a memorable and luxurious journey starting from the minute they check in to their flight to when they arrive at one of Swire Hotels’ bespoke properties throughout Hong Kong and China. The promotion aims to give guests the opportunity to experience Cathay Pacific’s five-star service and Swire Hotels’ unique and design-oriented accommodations, amenities and restaurants, each with distinctive style and history, all at a seasonal rate.

Swire Hotels is a collection of two individual hotel brands in Hong Kong, China, and the U.S. that include the intimate luxury hotels of The House Collective and lifestyle hotels of EAST. The small luxury House Collective consists of The Opposite House, Beijing; The Upper House, Hong Kong; The Temple House, Chengdu; and The Middle House, Shanghai, which opened in April 2018. The stylish EAST brand includes EAST, Hong Kong; EAST, Beijing; and EAST, Miami, the first Swire Hotels property in the U.S.

Cathay Pacific will offer travelers a USD500 discount for each business class package from the U.S. to Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, and Chengdu. [PROMO CODE: SWIRE]

L to R: Cathay Pacific Airways Business Class Service; Corner Room at EAST, Hong Kong; Lobby at EAST, Beijing; Bathroom at The Upper House

Swire Hotels will offer the following to guests:

The Opposite House

  • Guaranteed upgrade to Studio 70

The Upper House

  • Café Gray Deluxe credit worth HKD500 (approx. USD63.70) per room for a minimum stay of two consecutive nights with booking made 45 days prior to arrival
  • Daily breakfast in Café Gray Deluxe for two persons and guaranteed upgrade to Studio 80 Island View for entire stays with a minimum of two nights

The Temple House

  • Guaranteed upgrade to Studio 70
  • 15% off on a la carte menu in TIVANO, The Temple Café, and MI XUN TEAHOUSE (not applicable to beverage)

The Middle House

  • Daily breakfast at Café Gray Deluxe
  • One-time 30-minute spa treatment at MI XUN for maximum two per room per stay

EAST, Hong Kong

  • Upgrade to Urban Corner room

EAST, Beijing

  • Upgrade to East View Room

*Blackout periods may apply, please contact property for available booking dates.

Booking and Travel Periods:

Flights

Booking period from now to August 31, 2018

Travel period from now to December 31, 2018

Hotels:

Booking and travel periods from now until March 31, 2019

Booking Method:

  1. Go to: www.cathaypacific.com/us
  2. Select flight+hotel package bookings
  3. Enter the promo code “SWIRE” before checkout to redeem the exclusive offer
  4. Proceed with checkout to confirm your booking

*Terms and Conditions apply

Fall and spring are the ideal seasons to travel to China and Hong Kong with mild weather, cultural festivals and many new happenings from Swire Hotels’ properties:

  • The Middle House, just opened in Shanghai in April, has already been recognized by China’s Wine List of the Year Awards with the Best French Restaurant Wine List in the Customers’ Choice Award.
  • The Temple House was named #8 in the Top 100 Hotels and #1 City Hotel in Asia in Travel+Leisure’s World’s Best Awards. It was also awarded top accolades at TripAdvisor’s 2018 Travelers’ Choice Awards.
  • The Opposite House just celebrated its 10th anniversary and Beijing’s art scene is bursting with creativity.
  • The Upper House maintains its reputation as the best and most desirable hotel in Hong Kong and the title of #1 Hotel in China in TripAdvisor’s 2018 Travelers’ Choice Awards.
  • EAST, Hong Kong continues to feature fresh herbs and vegetables from its rooftop garden by newly announced Executive Chef, Mark Percy.
  • EAST, Beijing creates innovative concepts for guests with the opening of its unique outdoor bar, The Craft Container.

Toby Smith, Managing Director of Swire Hotels, said, “We are excited to be collaborating with Cathay Pacific Airways. It provides a great opportunity for guests to experience a memorable journey as they take off from the city to our distinctively unique hotels, in the air as well as on the ground.”

Prior to joining Swire Hotels, Smith worked at Cathay Pacific, first as General Manager, Product and then as General Manager, Sales and Distribution. In 2017, Smith joined Swire Hotels to lead the overall business strategy of Swire Hotels and Restaurants.

Cathay Pacific, which launched nonstop service from North America in 1983, flies to Hong Kong and beyond over 100 times per week from Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Newark, New York (JFK), San Francisco, Toronto and Vancouver. Its four-times-weekly service from Washington, DC will launch on September 16, and the airline has just announced a four-times-weekly service from Seattle, commencing on April 1, 2019.

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About Swire Hotels and Swire Restaurants

Swire Hotels was created to manage soulfully individual hotels in China and the USA, providing a characterful experience for well-traveled, individually-minded travelers who seek originality, style and personalized service. We operate distinctive hotels with a sense of place that break with convention.

The company’s first hotel, The Opposite House in Beijing, opened in 2008 and was followed by The Upper House in Hong Kong, and then by EAST, Hong Kong; EAST, Beijing; The Temple House in Chengdu; and EAST, Miami. The Middle House in Shanghai, the latest addition, opened in April 2018.

A restaurant division was set up in 2013 to manage the company’s stand-alone restaurant operations in Hong Kong. Our first restaurant Plat du Jour opened in November 2013, followed by PUBLIC and Ground PUBLIC in Quarry Bay. The Continental in Pacific Place opened in October 2014 and Mr & Mrs Fox opened in 2015, followed by the second Plat du Jour in Pacific Place in 2016. The latest addition, REPUBLIC, opened in Taikoo Place in December 2017. www.swirehotels.com

About The Opposite House

The Opposite House is located in Taikoo Li Sanlitun — a vibrant new open-plan shopping, dining and entertainment destination developed by Swire Properties. The hotel’s 99 guest studios include nine spacious suites and a penthouse duplex with a 240 sqm roof terrace. More than half of all the studios are over 70sqm and all are strikingly simple with natural wooden floors and subtle touches of Chinese décor. www.theoppositehouse.com

About The Upper House

The Upper House at Pacific Place is a highly individualized intimate luxury hotel designed by Hong Kong architect André Fu. The hotel’s 117 rooms (including 21 suites and two penthouses) start at 730 sq. ft. — the largest in Hong Kong. They feature wonderfully spacious bathrooms and dressing areas, and offer either scenic harbor or island views. Calming and contemporary, the rooms are designed to provide a sense of relaxation, warmth and understated luxury. Café Gray Deluxe, a 21st-century ‘grand café,’ located on the 49th floor overlooking Victoria Harbor, signaled a return to Hong Kong in 2009 of Chef Gray Kunz with his cuisine — a unique style of European classics and signature dishes from a lifetime leading the very finest kitchens in Europe, Asia and America. www.upperhouse.com

About The Temple House

The Temple House is located in the heart of the city within the Sino-Ocean Taikoo Li Chengdu. The 100-room hotel and its 42 adjoining serviced apartments form an integral part of the city government’s conservation project to preserve the surrounding heritage buildings next to the thousand-year-old Daci Temple. The three-dimensional woven façade combines modern design with the traditional Chengdu architectural elements of timber, brick and step stones. Elegant bamboo trees frame the hotel’s entrance, which is set in a beautifully restored hundred-year-old Chinese courtyard building first built in the Qing Dynasty. The Temple House also offers a dynamic collection of outlets including The Temple Café – the all-day dining restaurant, TIVANO – an authentic Italian restaurant, Jing Bar featuring live DJs, MIXUN Spa and Teahouse. www.thetemplehousehotel.com 

About The Middle House

Located in the bustling Jing’an District of Shanghai and the city’s trendy Nanjing West Road, The Middle House is the newest addition to Swire Hotels’ renowned The House Collective, offering 111 luxuriously designed guest rooms and 102 serviced residences for discerning world travelers. Enlisting Italian designer and architect Piero Lissoni to bring his signature mix of bold lines and clean silhouettes into every detail, The Middle House offers many unique features, including an expansive outdoor space with terraces that provide an elegant and calm oasis amidst the dynamic backdrop of one of Asia’s most sophisticated cities. www.themiddlehousehotel.com

About EAST, Miami

EAST, Miami is Swire Hotels’ first venture into North America, following the openings of EAST in Hong Kong and Beijing. Created for unconventional travelers looking for a fun and relaxing place to stay, EAST, Miami offers distinctive experiences for those seeking innovation, style, and personalized service. EAST, Miami offers 352 guest rooms to include eight suites and 89 one, two and three-bedroom residence suites (fully equipped apartments with kitchen, laundry facilities and full access to the amenities and services of the hotel). Guests can expect keyless entry, paperless check-in and check-out, a native app with locally curated insights and travel tips, art exhibits, health and wellness programing and array of other happenings to make them feel totally at EAST. The hotel boasts its signature restaurant Quinto La Huella; a poolside bar & lounge and a rooftop destination bar called Sugar; 20,000 square-feet of meeting and banquet rooms with bay and city views; a 20,000 square-foot outdoor pool deck (with four different pools) which can be used for private events; a lobby café and bar, Domain, and a 24-hour fitness center. Located at 788 Brickell Plaza, Miami, Florida 33131, the hotel is centrally located within a 15-minute drive from the Miami International Airport, and situated on top of Brickell City Centre – conveniently connected to popular districts such as Wynwood, the Design District, and South Beach. www.east-miami.com

About EAST Hong Kong

A lifestyle business hotel by Swire Hotels in Hong Kong, EAST offers 339 rooms and six suites with harbor or urban views and state-of-the-art communications technology: 37-inch, high definition LCD TVs with numerous satellite and cable channels, simple connectivity for laptops and complimentary broadband / WiFi Internet throughout EAST for savvy business travelers.

EAST also features a 24-hour gym Beast (Body by EAST) and an outdoor heated swimming pool.

On the 1st floor, the casual all-day dining restaurant Feast (Food by EAST) serves international cuisine and authentic specialties of Asia, Feast’s philosophy is “simple things, done well.” Accessed by a distinctive bird’s nest-style staircase, it has a takeaway menu including breakfast to go.

On the 32nd floor, rooftop lounge bar Sugar (Bar.Deck.Lounge) provides an extensive al fresco terrace with views across the harbor. Sugar is a place to unwind, chill out on the outside deck, and offers signature and classic cocktails, international sharing platters and nightly DJs. The venue is also available for private bookings during the day for private functions, meetings, team-building, launch events and parties.

The hotel is conveniently adjacent to Tai Koo MTR station and just a short drive from Central, Hong Kong. www.east-hongkong.com

About EAST, Beijing

EAST, Beijing is a lifestyle hotel located at INDIGO – a new retail-led mixed-use project by Swire Properties between the 4th and 5th Ring Roads in Jiangtai, Chaoyang District. The 369-room hotel is designed to provide a refreshing and contemporary approach to the business hotel experience. A high-tech environment featuring a paperless check-in and out experience and a one-stop front-desk Guest Experience service team mean that life at EAST is efficient and business ready. With two restaurants and a bar, a fully equipped gym, an indoor swimming pool, plus The Workshop for meetings and events, makes this truly a ‘business hotel with a life.’ The hotel is just 15 minutes from the airport, the CBD, and national exhibition venues. Beijing South Railway Station (with fast connections to Tianjin and Shanghai) is 30 minutes by car. EAST, Beijing is Swire Hotels’ fourth hotel in Asia and the second from the EAST brand, following the successful opening of EAST, Hong Kong. www.east-beijing.com

About Cathay Pacific

Cathay Pacific Airways offers over 100 flights per week from the USA to Hong Kong and beyond, including over 20 destinations in mainland China. For more information, including fares and availability, visit cathaypacific.com/us, www.facebook.com/cathaypacificus, Twitter (@CathayPacificUS) or Instagram (@CathayPacific). For North American reservations, dial toll-free: 1-888-233-ASIA.

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