Highest hotel (in a mixed-use building)

The highest hotel in a mixed-use building is the five-star Rosewood Guangzhou, located in the uppermost floors of the 111-storey Guangzhou Chow Tai Fook (CTF) Finance Centre in China. The building stands 530 m (1,738 ft) tall, with the 251-room hotel occupying the top 16 floors. The highest point occupied in the building is at 495.5 m (1,626 ft).

The CTF Finance Centre, in the Tianhe district of Guangzhou, is the third-tallest building in China and the eighth-tallest in the world.

The hotel, operated by Rosewood Hotels & Resorts, opened on 10 September 2019, and includes a ballroom and restaurant on the 107th floor, and, at ground level, an eight-storey podium with a 30-m-high (100-ft) glass-roofed atrium. Guests benefit from the world’s fastest elevators, travelling at 75.6 km/h (47 mph).

This “mixed-use” record is distinct from the tallest hotel record, which considers only buildings in which 85% or more of the floor space is dedicated to hotels, and from the highest hotel, defined by the altitude of the hotel above sea level. As of October 2024, these are, respectively, the as-yet-unopened Ciel Hotel in Dubai, UAE, which tops out at 366 m (1,199 ft) and the Hotel Tayka del Desierto in Bolivia’s Ojo de Perdiz Siloli Desert, at an altitude of c. 4,600 m (15,091 ft).