White Swan Hotel
Riverside luxury hotel on a former colonial island, once the emotional last stop for families adopting Chinese children.
This guide to the White Swan Hotel in Guangzhou opens with a strange daily ritual: for roughly two decades, the hotel fell quiet on command every morning because a room full of infants was being put down for a nap. It traces why this address became the last stop on what American parents nicknamed the Long March, the journey of adopting a child from China, after the nearby US consulate issued exit visas. You'll hear about the red couches in the lobby where thousands of families photographed their new children, and about the Hong Kong businessman Fok Ying-tung, who opened the hotel on reclaimed land in 1983. Look for those couches near the lobby entrance.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.