- First glimpse of China’s £225mn luxurious ‘quarry hotel’ that has opened inside an abandoned pit.
- The 17-storey, 336-room hotel opened yesterday to much fanfare on the outskirts of Shanghai.
- Two storeys are above the ground and the rest are underneath, including two underwater floors.
- A restaurant and lavish suites are below the water level and guests can see fish through the glass.
China’s latest luxury hotel yesterday opened inside an abandoned quarry after nearly a decade of construction. InterContinental Shanghai Wonderland, a much-anticipated £225 million project, is built onto one side of an 88-metre-deep (289-foot-deep) pit in the south-western outskirts of the financial hub. Draping down the rocky pit as if a glitzy waterfall, the 17-storey, 336-room hotel has two floors above the ground and 15 floors underneath, including two lowest levels that are submerged in a man-made pond.
