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#59 highest hotel rooms in the world · Shangri-La
Shangri-La Phnom Penh (The Peak)
Phnom Penh, Cambodia · in The Peak · completed 2021
Highest room
745 ft
about 227 m above the street
Top room floor
56th
hotel floors 1–58
Building height
774 ft
236 m · 58 floors
Typical rate
$170
per night, standard room
Dedicated hotel tower · #69 by building height · #52 by top floor
How high is Shangri-La Phnom Penh?
Shangri-La Phnom Penh (The Peak) is a Shangri-La hotel in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Its highest guest rooms are on the 56th floor, roughly 745 ft (227 m) above the street: about 140 ft higher than the top of Seattle's Space Needle.
The hotel fills The Peak, a 58-floor tower that rises 774 ft (236 m) and was completed in 2021. Guest rooms stop at floor 56, 2 floors below the top of the building.
By highest room it ranks #59 of the 176 hotels in our world index, #69 by building height and #52 by top room floor. It has the highest hotel rooms in Phnom Penh on our list, 175 ft above Rosewood Phnom Penh. Among the 8 Shangri-La hotels we track, it ranks #2.
A standard room typically costs around $170 a night, below the $250 median across the tall hotels we track. Rates swing a lot by season, so check live prices before you book.
About the hotel
Shangri-La Phnom Penh is the brand's first hotel in the Cambodian capital, occupying the commercial tower of The Peak, a mixed-use development by Singapore's Oxley Holdings on Sam Dach Hun Sen Road in the Tonle Bassac area. The tower also contains office units, and it rises beside two residential towers above a five-level retail podium. The hotel, planned with about 300 rooms, overlooks the Mekong and has the Chinese restaurant Shang Palace, the all-day Kommune and the Altitude sky bar.
How it compares
Drawn to scale: Shangri-La Phnom Penh and its neighbours in the world ranking by highest room.
#56Al Marwa Rayhaan by RotanaMakkah#57Raffles Makkah PalaceMakkah
#58Park Hyatt BeijingBeijing
#59Shangri-La Phnom PenhPhnom Penh
#60Wyndham Grand i-CityShah Alam
#61JW Marriott Hotel Marina, DubaiDubai
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Questions about Shangri-La Phnom Penh
What floor are the highest rooms at Shangri-La Phnom Penh?
The highest guest rooms at Shangri-La Phnom Penh are on the 56th floor. The hotel occupies floors 1–58 of the 58-floor building.
How high up are the rooms at Shangri-La Phnom Penh?
Its top-floor rooms sit roughly 745 ft (227 m) above street level, about 140 ft higher than the top of Seattle's Space Needle. The figure is an estimate based on the floor number and the building's average floor height.
How tall is The Peak?
The Peak is 774 ft (236 m) tall, with 58 floors, and was completed in 2021.
Is Shangri-La Phnom Penh the tallest hotel in Phnom Penh?
By highest room, yes: it has the highest hotel rooms of the 2 Phnom Penh hotels on our list, ahead of Rosewood Phnom Penh (570 ft).
How much does a night at Shangri-La Phnom Penh cost?
Standard rooms typically run around $170 per night, though rates vary a lot by date and season.
Heights come from CTBUH, Wikipedia and the hotels themselves. The highest-room figure is the top room floor multiplied by the building's average floor height, so treat it as accurate to within a few floors. How we measure.