A luxury hideout opens with convenient access to China’s giant pandas.

Why Go: For tourists, pandas remain Chengdu’s main draw. Up-close rendezvous with the bears (native to central China’s surrounding mountains) can be had at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding just outside of the city. And guests of the Temple House, which opened in Chengdu in July, can hire the hotel’s Audi Q7 for the trip. A Swire Hotels property, the Temple House tastefully mixes the Old World with the new. Guests enter t…