Clean Air Costs: Hilton Beijing's Health Club

It’s possible that you’d struggle to find as healthy a room in the whole of the city as the Hilton Beijing Health Club. Aside from the shiny new equipment and the chiseled forms of the private trainers, the air you breathe is fresh as a spring meadow, and the water you drink as clean as a Norwegian glacier. Purity and filtration have been a source of heavy investment.

So too the facilities; there’s a new squash court (RMB 100 per hour), which doubles as a yoga studio. The changing area has been fitted out with a sauna, steam room and a small relaxation room replete with deep leather loungers and wireless headsets. The upper level has a swimming pool and a Jacuzzi drenched in natural daylight, and a 1,300sqm ornamental rooftop garden is planned.

As might be expected, neither membership nor one-off use of the facilities comes cheap (RMB 18,000 per year and RMB 200 per visit, respectively – a commitment not to be made lightly), but in an increasingly unhealthy city, it provides a comfortable space to enjoy an invigorating workout in modern surroundings.

Hilton Beijing Health Club
Daily 6am-10.30pm 4/F, Hilton Beijing, 1 Dongfang Lu, Dongsanhuan Beilu, Chaoyang District 5865 5165)
朝阳区东三环北路东方路1号北京希尔顿酒店4层

This article originally appeared on page 40 of the Beijinger magazine.