Zijin Mountain in the east of Nanjing is the symbol of the city. The cultural features dotted with historic sites and the gilded natural scenery of the mountains make this mountain truly the "Purple Gold Mountain" every autumn. From the "golden necklace" of Meiling Palace to the colorful forest surrounded by Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum and the music stage, it is enough to make "the long dream of Jinling linger in that bay."

At the foot of Niushou Mountain in the southwest of the ancient city, the brand-new Jinling Town allows people to travel through history and dream of returning to the Six Dynasties. They feel the different charm of Jinling and become a fashionable reason to visit Nanjing.

However, if you can find a good hotel amidst these beautiful scenery, it may add a touch of color to your golden autumn trip in Nanjing. You don't have to leave Zijin Mountain. Under the eastern foot of the mountain, you can find this resort-Suning Zhongshan International Golf Hotel.

This is not the first time I have stayed at this hotel, but because it is my favorite hotel in Jinling, I am willing to give it the most beautiful time. What's more, this time, it has a new way to play.

This hotel with a long history can be traced back to the "suburban stadium" established by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China in 1929. Sofitel Nanjing Suning Zhongshan Golf Hotel opened in 2006, opening the chapter of Nanjing Golf Hotel. Starting from April 2019, after nearly two years of landmark reinstallation and upgrades. On December 26, 2020, Suning Real Estate Group arrived in Jinling with the luxurious and legendary services of Zhongshan Golf Hotel. As a self-owned brand of Ya Luxury under Suning Group, the hotel has a unique wraparound golf course and a private classical manor style landscape.

In the past two years since its opening, the hotel's quality has been highly recognized and its reputation has been growing. However, none of this has stopped the hotel's development. This year, the "Zhongshan Fun Scenery·Nature Camp" was launched to provide one-stop service outdoor camp.

The camp is surrounded by a golf course. There are different styles of tents named after constellations, camping items and Internet celebrity Glamping Van. It is also equipped with a variety of barbecue tools and ingredients, which solves the need for customers who want to camp but are afraid of trouble. After its launch, it has quickly exited the circle, making it difficult to find a "tent".

Next to the camp is Nanjing Zhongshan International Golf Course. The 27-hole standard course includes an 18-hole lighted course, which combines the topography of Zhongshan. From the floor-to-ceiling windows of the hotel lobby bar, you can see the greens through the landscaped pool, which makes many guests salivate.

Now that you are in a golf hotel, how can you not experience golf? The hotel specially provides guests with a golf experience voucher, allowing them to have a taste of the fun of swinging.

Although it is a training ground, a new automatic server has been equipped here. Training sessions are billed for one hour. With the automatic server, the efficiency of the swing can be greatly improved and it is very suitable for beginners! I just practiced here for an hour happily and felt a little sense of accomplishment.

Even without playing golf, the other fitness facilities in the hotel can allow guests who have lived in the city for a long time to "get moving" and find more of the true meaning of healthy life during the vacation. The hotel's indoor heated swimming pool has a beautiful glass dome. The sun shines as if you are bathing in nature, and the supporting facilities are also quite complete.

The hotel's fitness room provides fitness enthusiasts with efficient exercise plans with a quick and focused training plan. It is equipped with advanced Life Fitness fitness equipment and is open 24 hours a day, making it convenient and effective.

The hotel also fully considers the needs of parent-child families. The oversized children's activity center is fully equipped. The cute children stay here for most of the day. Even adults like me want to play!

The beauty of all the above is due to this luxurious resort estate at the foot of Zijin Mountain and among the precious land of Zhongshan Mountain. At this moment, let us start from scratch, understand it, and fall in love with it.

The two-year renovation and reinstallation was led by CCD, a well-known design company in the industry, to highlight the connotation of luxury with a natural low-key. Strolling through the elegant manor, passing through the neatly manicured shade on both sides, you will see the low-key and luxurious European architectural exterior, the peaceful and calm atmosphere, and you will enter a prosperous manor.

Here, there is a unique drop-out experience. At the entrance of the hotel is a thick bronze door, reflecting the elegance of the manor. The concierge slowly opened the door of the guests and pushed open the unique and customized "S" handle to open the service experience that belongs to the aristocrats.

Starting from the welcome lobby, CCD's spatial aesthetics tailored for the hotel began to gradually lay out. The Czech custom-made handmade crystal chandeliers and towering black bookcases on both sides outline the profound charm full of aristocracy. The black wood grain materials, gold ceilings and customized stone parquet on the floor in the space perfectly combine European complexity with modern luxury materials. The entire space adopts the overall color mix of black and gold, recreating the charm of Nanjing's Jinling Imperial Prefecture.

Hidden behind the welcome lobby is the hotel's lobby lounge, which not only has European elegance interpreted with modern techniques, but also has the warmth and comfort full of a sense of home. The classic furniture layout, Art Deco-style furniture fabrics, and the perfect echo of floral art and crystal chandeliers all make this space more charming.

But what is more beautiful here is the panoramic floor-to-ceiling glass, the green scenery is full of green green scenery. Through the clever mapping of the landscape pool, it allows different light and shadow scenes at different times of the day.

The 262 rooms are named after "Mu Yue","Yan Lan","Jing Xi" and "Ji Yun". They all come from ancient poems and use corresponding nouns to echo the landscape of the rooms."Yue" has a mountain view, and "Jing" refers to golf. Like this, it has the charm of a dragon and snake.

The room area starts from 51 square meters, and the space is very spacious. It adopts a design style that combines oriental classical aesthetics with European elegance. The unique room layout makes people feel refreshing and unique.

Opening the door, you are facing the couch and the clever umbrella storage box, bringing every guest room the comfort of going home. The unique island-style entrance also increases the privacy of the room.

Open washing spaces and wardrobes are located on both sides of the entrance. A separate dressing table and a facing square bathtub have also become unique highlights of this room.

The color of the room continues the combination of black wood grains and gold details in the lobby space. The overall color is noble and elegant, and the atmosphere is calm, like a replica of the Republic of China mansion.

The space of the guest room is integrated with white paint panels, warm color series linen furniture, and local orange embellishments, creating a comfortable and tranquil feeling of home. Especially when the sun sets, the sun shines on the guest room, and the tranquility is intoxicating.

Kohler's White House brand-Kallista bathroom series, a wide variety of free minibars, complimentary golf turndown gifts, Hermes toiletries selected for this room type and other details have greatly enhanced the experience of the stay.

If I were to recommend a room type, Jiyun Terrace Room would definitely be the first choice. Pushing open the balcony door and walking onto the terrace, you can have a panoramic view of the entire golf course. It is a feast of intertwined green colors!

If rooms with styles that intersect east and west and experience comfort and luxury give people a sense of spiritual satisfaction, then the hotel's four restaurants satisfy the guests 'physical pleasure from different dimensions, truly making both physically and mentally comfortable.

The Lanting Buffet Restaurant next to the lobby welcomes guests with four towering blue screens. It is built with the concept of Nanjing's ancient street where time and space meet. The seats near the window can also enjoy the golf course view on one side.

In addition to providing buffet breakfast, the buffet feast served here every night has become a benchmark for the quality buffet of Nanjing Chengzhong Hotels, and it is full every day.

Chefs in the open cooking station cook a variety of Chinese and Western delicacies on site with high-quality ingredients, from freshly roasted oysters, foie gras, tomahawk steak and other major dishes to pot rice, durian pizza, ice powder and other staple foods and desserts. The Chinese hot dishes are mainly Jiangsu and Zhejiang cuisines, authentic and delicious. There are also sliced duck, cheese pasta, etc. delivered to each table on site. All kinds of seafood, juice drinks, desserts and fruits are also available at large, making people hate that their appetites are too small.

The exquisite Zijin Pavilion of Huaiyang Restaurant reflects the beauty of traditional Chinese order, is calm and atmospheric, and uses exquisite screen partitions to create a sense of hierarchy and ceremony in the space. The color of Nanjing blue glazed tiles is refined in terms of color, and royal blue is used in color jump to create a new and elegant flavor with oriental charm. At the same time, Chinese red colors are used on the furniture, and the corridor walls are decorated with continuous copper art, blending east and west to feel the collision of European customs.

The restaurant has 7 private boxes with different decoration styles. Among them, the more luxurious "Jinling" box can face the natural landscape in the courtyard, and the walls decorated with "cloisonne" add a bit of artistic connotation to the atmosphere., allowing diners to savor the "Chinese cuisine" culture that brings aesthetics to the extreme.

The restaurant focuses on creative Huaiyang cuisine, which uses seasonal fresh ingredients to cook it in the same way as Huaiyang cuisine, and combines trendy new flavors, allowing people to find freshness in the classics and eat it often new. The signature crab meal stewed fish brain is a kung fu dish that is hard to find elsewhere. Fish brain is an ingredient that can easily produce fishy smell and is rejected. However, this dish is fragrant and fragrant, and every spoonful is satisfying and absolutely shows the skills of cooking. Gold-medal crispy roasted pork is also a must-order item. The arched bridge-like golden crispy crust is wrapped in fresh powdered sugar, transforming a dish that might otherwise be greasy into a crispy touch and full meat aroma on the tip of the tongue. It is not enough!

Other dishes worth recommending include truffle powder simmer beef, brocade crab flavor, etc., each of which will not disappoint.

Feel the collision of Italian customs in the Milan Western Restaurant through the corridor where time and space meet. The place is filled with a rugged nostalgic Italian style, and the design of the arch is inspired by the natural arch, a relic of the collapse of a limestone cave on the east coast of Capri, Italy. The menu includes the classic delicacies of all kinds of Western food. Among them, the must-eat is the special Italian pizza, which is baked at just the right time and exudes a strong aroma.

It is important to mention that Kurogi Kuroki, a well-known Japanese food known as the "most difficult restaurant to book in Tokyo" and regarded as the "expensive Japanese restaurant" on the list of "Top Ten Luxury Restaurants in Shanghai". This is the second branch opened overseas after Kuroki Shanghai. Hidden in a classical manor, the restaurant presents a Japanese garden design, which is Zen, elegant and quiet. The stone roads and landscape tile walls in the courtyard give people poetry and comfort, leaving space blank to repair the line, which contains the designer's imagination of this space.

"Jinling is beautiful, tigers and dragons are carved, and the foothills of purple gold". In this most beautiful golden autumn season, do you have any reason to refuse such a "resort estate" integrated with the most beautiful Jinling? Go now, it's worth a few days to experience it!

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