Entrance to the spa

Part of a weekly series featuring luxury hotel expert Mary Gostelow’s hotel pick of the week.

Six Senses Qing Cheng Mountain (pronounced ‘ching-chong’) is 50 minutes’ drive from Chengdu, China. This amazing 62-acre resort opens June 15th, 2015 – but I was lucky enough to have already visited and stayed. Over more than five years’ work has turned a flat area at the base of the mountain into a gorgeous village, with running brooks and waterfalls, mature trees and a football-sized farm with fruit and vegetables, chicken, geese, and a mushroom hut.

One of the many lush and scenic outside views with outdoor seating.

There are 113 suites, in two-floor blocks interconnected at upper level by outside boardwalks. All ground-floor suites have absolutely private gardens: inside, on both levels, walls and floors are local Nanmu wood, and there are sculpture-like ceiling fans over the decoration-only mosquito net beds. WiFi everywhere is faultless. Cycle around the whole village. Climb up to the Eagle’s Nest, atop a restaurant, for amazing 360-degree views: you have local spicy Sichuan food, authentic Thai in a round restaurant with a bamboo-spiral ceiling, and an international farm-like brasserie. There are indoor and outdoor 100-foot pools and the spa, which opens September, is like one big white sculpture. GM is Michael Murphy.

Mary on the Eagle’s Nest, with Qing Cheng Mountain behind.

Check out last week’s Hotel of the Week.