The Peninsula Hotels: All 12 Properties, Rates & PenClub

The Peninsula is luxury hospitality's most disciplined brand. The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels company has been at it since 1928 (the year The Peninsula Hong Kong opened as the "Grande Dame of the Far East"), and in almost a hundred years it has opened exactly twelve hotels. No management-contract sprawl, no soft-brand collection: each Peninsula is majority-owned by the family company, built or restored over a decade, and run as a flagship. In the 2026 MICHELIN Key selection, announced in September, The Peninsula London received Three Keys and Hong Kong, Paris, Shanghai, Chicago and Beverly Hills received Two each; The 50 Best Hotels 2026 placed Istanbul at No. 31 and Hong Kong at No. 46.

The portfolio splits neatly: six Asian originals (Hong Kong, Manila, Beijing, Bangkok, Tokyo, Shanghai), three American city hotels (New York, Beverly Hills, Chicago), and the three European-era statements; Paris (2014), then London and Istanbul, both opened in 2023 after decades of site hunting.

The Peninsula by Our Numbers

On 1 October 2026 we priced the same stays at every Peninsula through our own booking engine (the one behind hotels.biirdee.com) and scored the 100 most recent verified guest reviews at each hotel ourselves. The test stays were 10–13 Nov 2026, 27–30 Dec 2026, 12–15 Mar 2027 and 15–18 Jul 2027, plus a two-night midweek stay in every month to September 2027. Rates are the lowest per night the engine charged at booking; taxes the hotel collects at checkout are extra. Live rates change daily, so treat these as the rates on 1 October 2026.

Nine of the twelve hotels had enough recent reviews to score; Paris, Istanbul and Tokyo have older review windows, marked †. Every hotel's full price record is on our Peninsula prices page, and each hotel guide in the list below carries its own scorecard.

What the Numbers Say

Guests rate the Peninsula highly and consistently. Its 9.26 average is third of the eight brands we could score, behind Belmond (9.53) and Maybourne (9.40) and ahead of Mandarin Oriental (9.21), Four Seasons (9.17) and Rosewood (9.14), and 85% of recent guests scored their stay 9 or more. Over the long run, none of the 11 Peninsulas with enough reviews on our platform averages under 9.0, and four average 9.5 or more. Families are the least effusive guests (8.96 across 191 reviews, against 9.31 for couples), and breakfast is the brand's soft spot: it came up in 19.3% of written reviews, and those reviews averaged 8.64 against 9.32 for the rest. Reviews that mentioned a hotel feeling dated (6.7%) averaged 7.67.

On price the Peninsula is a brand of two halves. In November its median lowest rate ($1,114) was the third-highest of the eight brands we priced, behind only Dorchester Collection and Maybourne; by March ($734) and July ($788) it undercut Four Seasons and Rosewood, and only Ritz-Carlton (and, in March, Mandarin Oriental) priced lower. Inside the brand the spread is wide: the Asian hotels outside Tokyo are the bargains, while Paris, London, New York and Beverly Hills cost four figures a night on every one of our stays. Breakfast for two adds $67–123 a night, less than at Mandarin Oriental ($124–200) or Rosewood ($161–225).

Top and Bottom on Guest Reviews

Beijing leads the brand: 9.61 out of 10 across its 100 most recent reviews, with 93% of guests at 9 or more and just 1% under 7. It is all-suite, so every rate we found there was a suite ($385–618 a night). Hong Kong (9.46, with 91% at 9 or more) is second, and London and Shanghai share third on 9.43, London with more guests at 9 or more (90%) and Shanghai with fewer unhappy ones (2% under 7). Paris (9.60 †) and Istanbul (9.56 †, on 54 reviews) post scores that would place them near the top, but on reviews from 2018 to 2025 and 2023 to 2025, so we flag them rather than rank them.

At the bottom, New York is the one Peninsula under 9: 8.87, with 76% of guests at 9 or more and 11% under 7, and 22% of its written reviews mentioned the hotel feeling dated. Beverly Hills (9.07, also 11% under 7) and Manila (9.00) complete the bottom three. None of them is a bad hotel in our view; they are the places where the brand's famous consistency shows a seam.

When to Go

February is the Peninsula's cheap month. It was the cheapest month at six of the twelve hotels (Tokyo, Shanghai, Beijing, London, Istanbul and New York), and the brand's median lowest rate fell to $602 a night, against $880 in May, the priciest. Hong Kong is cheapest in January (tied with March), Beverly Hills in January (tied with November), Bangkok and Paris in November, Chicago in March, and Manila sits at $261 for most of the year.

The swings are biggest in Tokyo, which doubled from February ($791) to November ($1,579), and Chicago, where July ($995) cost about twice March ($485). New York's December ($2,275) was the priciest month at any Peninsula outside Paris. At the other end, Bangkok ($397–443), Shanghai ($471–601), Hong Kong ($627–830) and Beverly Hills ($1,077–1,290) barely moved, so choose those on the weather rather than the rate. October 2027 was barely on sale: only four Peninsulas had rooms for it, all priced well above their other months.

What Our Desk Books

Our agents have priced Peninsulas 24 times since June 2026, and our bookings show the brand's range: The Peninsula London for September, at suite level, and The Peninsula Hong Kong for June, at about $1,030 a night. Tokyo is the exception. There, our clients have chosen Mandarin Oriental over the Peninsula every time so far, and our numbers suggest why: Mandarin Oriental, Tokyo had the fresher and slightly higher guest score (9.53, against the Peninsula's 9.46 on older reviews) and the lower rate on all four of our test stays. The full head-to-head is in Peninsula vs Mandarin Oriental.

PenClub, Decoded, and How to Get the Benefits

Peninsula runs no points program and never has. What it runs instead is PenClub: an invitation-only program for vetted travel advisors. A PenClub booking costs exactly the same as booking direct, but arrives with room upgrades (subject to availability, often confirmed at booking), daily breakfast for two, a property credit, early/late check-in and out, and VIP recognition from a brand whose service culture actually delivers on that word.

The catch is simply access; you can't join PenClub yourself. Booking through Biirdee gets you PenClub-grade benefits via our preferred partnerships: same rate as the Peninsula website, perks attached, one email to arrange it. The math is straightforward: on our test stays, breakfast for two added $112–132 a night at The Peninsula London on the same room, and $191–228 at Beverly Hills on three of the four.

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