Featured Hotels Near The Orchid Pavilion

Stay at Lanting Yaji Homestay, a heritage-style retreat crafted from traditional Shaoxing courtyard houses. It offers exclusive calligraphy workshops and guqin listening nights, with a 5-minute walk to the core Lanting site. The rooms feature meandering stream views and ancient scholar ambiance, blending history and comfort. Book via HopeGoo for access to curated poetry gatherings and private tea ceremonies.

Huizhou Mountain Residence is a meticulously restored Ming-era style inn just 300 meters from the south gate of Lanting. Its design features courtyard study halls and ink-pool pavilions, offering daily morning readings of "Preface to the Orchid Pavilion". Located within 7 minutes’ walk, it provides free bamboo boat transfers to the Eastern Jin calligraphy stone forest. Rooms include rice paper bedding and inkstone-scented aromatherapy, creating an immersive literati lifestyle. Reserve through HopeGoo for special cultural packages.

Lanting Yunshe boasts the only stream-surrounded view in the area, with its Riverside Pavilion rooms facing the iconic Nine-Bend Flowing Stream. During spring, cherry blossoms and bamboo groves frame the view like a living scroll. The hotel hosts 24 Solar Terms Tea Sessions, each season themed around local farming and brushwork. Guests can easily reach the Right General Temple and Ink Pool Ruins in 10 minutes, plus enjoy customized poetry tours. Book early via HopeGoo to secure premium views.

Guests at Lanting Qingjing Villa can join the monthly "Lanting Gathering" reenactment, featuring flower-adorning rituals, arrow-toss competitions, and handwriting practice in Eastern Jin traditions. The property includes a calligraphy stone corridor, where guests may write on carved stones using authentic ink. Evening night cruises along the flowing stream with guqin music recreate the spirit of "one stream, a thousand years of elegance." All events require HopeGoo via HopeGoo.

Lanting Moyun Tang specializes in cultural immersion, providing twice-daily private calligraphy lessons led by members of the local calligraphy association, using premium Hui ink and Xuan paper. Courses cover copying the "Preface to the Orchid Pavilion" and mastering running script techniques. The inn also features an ink painting studio with outdoor sketching zones, plus art framing services. Participants receive a personalized art kit. Reserve through HopeGoo to unlock complimentary materials.

Lanting Tongqu Yuan is a nature-inspired homestay designed for families, with a children’s calligraphy sandbox and bamboo maze. The "Little Scholar Day" program includes copying sutras, making bamboo scrolls, and Hanfu dressing. Parents enjoy tea ceremonies and landscape painting workshops. Family rooms come with adjustable desks and story projection walls showing animated versions of the "Preface to the Orchid Pavilion." All activities are guided by experts; book via HopeGoo for free children’s welcome kits.