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On Your Mark, Get Set, Build A Hotel in 15 Days!
While other hotels were busy throwing circus parties and locking out their guests, this New Year's Eve proved rather productive for one Chinese architecture company, who managed to set a new record for the speediest construction of a hotel the world has ever seen. Fifteen days is all it took for a 30-story hotel to go up near Dongting Lake in Hunan Province, China.
And if you don't believe us, just watch this 360-hour time lapse video to prove it.
The entire operation was led by Broad Sustainable Construction, who used a prefabricated building system to put together an earthquake-resistant 30-story hotel in just over two weeks. How was it possible? By starting with a complete steel frame, sections of the hotel were then added, fully assembled, one by one, until all thirty floors were in place. Since floor tiles, drywall, electrical wiring, plumbing were already in place, it was then just a matter of throwing in some furniture and putting flowers on the table.
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IHG To Create a New Hotel Brand Just for China
The Forbidden City, Beijing
A new year and a new hotel brand is coming to the masses! Well, the masses of one particular country, that is. InterContinental Hotel Group (IHG) is working on rolling out a new hotel brand but this one will only be found in China.
News reports today say IHG will launch the upscale brand in the country within the next six months and will eventually expand the brand across Asia Pacific. And it apparently doesn't matter that IHG already has 160 hotels in China with 140 more in the works (like the Hotel Indigo Hong Kong.) Instead, IHG is placing their bets on the idea that the Chinese want a domestically-grown brand to call their own. (Even though, technically, the IHG corporate HQ is based in London.)
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Maybe China is Not So Hot After All?
Starwood Personalized Travel's tea cup and amenities menu translated to Chinese.
Hotel companies have gone gaga for China over the past few years opening tons of new hotels in the burgeoning economic powerhouse but maybe they were a little too overzealous?
A new report out says that four in 10 hotel rooms in China are empty, for about an average occupancy rate of 61 percent. And that number is not so comforting with more and more hotels in the pipeline. BusinessWeek had the full story including this omnious quote from a hotel analyst:
"Hotels in some markets of China are clearly oversupplied in the next three to five years and they won't be generating good returns, " said Nigel Summers, Hong Kong-based director at Horwath Asia Pacific, which tracks the hospitality industry. "China has had a very strong demand. The question is whether the increase in demand is going to be big enough to handle all the new hotels."
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The St. Regis Tianjin's Cube Hotel to Open October 30 at $156 a Night
Where: 158 Zhangzizhong Road, China
It's hard to believe but there's a new St. Regis Hotel opening that we may actually be able to afford. The St. Regis Tianjin, located in Northern China along the Heping River, will open on October 30 with special introductory rates of £99 per night, including daily breakfast and three-course evening meal per person. That works out to be about $156USD.
But the opening rate isn't the only thing that excites us--the shape of the hotel is a cube! The hotel will have 274 guest rooms, 36 suites, three restaurants and a spa within an 18-storey building that is "constructed of steel and glass and rises from the river in the shape of a hollowed cube."
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52 Aloft Hotels Down, A Million To Go
Where: United States
After the consecutive openings of Aloft Brooklyn, Aloft Zhengzhou Shangjie, Aloft Haiyang and Aloft Coimbatore Singanallur, Aloft has now passed its 50th hotel milestone (52 to be exact). Though that number is way off from an original target made back in 2006, they don't seem to be slowing down anytime soon. The brand hopes to add another 20 hotels in just two years.
So what's their secret? Are they just interested in being the fastest chain to put up new properties around the world? As we saw yesterday, culture is an important part of any emerging brand. But are scalability and intellect two compatible qualities for a hotel to have?
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Ca$h-Money: The Ritz London Sees Yuan Signs With the Installation of UnionPay Terminals
With China heralded a force to be reckoned with on the world stage, it should come as no surprise that other countries are cowering or, at the very least, catering to the nation poised to steal the U.S.' superpower spotlight. This accommodation extends to hotels in addition to scared witless politicians.
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'Boatels' Go Big Time as China Gets an Aircraft Carrier Hotel
First there was the brothel-boatel in the Rockaways, then came the Ellis Island ferryboat B&B, and now there's an entire decommissioned Soviet aircraft carrier being retrofitted to become a "luxury" hotel on some beach in China. The boatel trend has officially gone too far, too fast.
The Kiev, an old Russian aircraft carrier, was sold to a Chinese company back in 1996 and now they've finally gotten around to doing something with it. Billing it as "China's first aircraft carrier luxury hotel"—though we're pretty sure it's the world's first—Tiajin Aircraft Carrier Hotel preys upon the Chinese people's new fascination with aircraft carriers, seeing as how the Chinese military only just put their very first active one through sea trials.
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Welcome to the Hydrodome at Intercontinental Sanya
With all the travel we do, a visit to the spa is often essential—if not to maintain sanity, then at least to recuperate after long journeys. It’s not often, though, that a single spa feature captures our interest (usually we’re too busy zoning out on the massage table or letting a collagen moisturizer soak into our skin). On a recent visit to the InterContinental Sanya on China’s Hainan Island, however, we spotted a spa installment like nothing we’d ever seen before.
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Hotel Balls of Fury? China to Open Ping Pong Paddle Hotel
We couldn't ask for anything better to break up the monotony of a slow news day than the announcement of a Ping-Pong Paddle Hotel.
The hotel is being constructed in the city of Huainan, China as part of a $45.8 million sports complex which will have a main stadium shaped like an American football and smaller facilities shaped like a basketball, volleyball and a soccer ball.
But the pinnacle of this complex will no doubt be the Ping Pong Paddle Hotel. AOL Travel has more on this awesome-shaped hotel:
The China Daily newspaper reports rounded guestroom windows will resemble the surface texture of a table tennis racket, while the "handle" of the 500-foot hotel will be an observation deck, allowing tourists to take in a view of the city of Huainan, where the hotel will be built.
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Shangri-La Debuts Its New, Laid Back Kerry Brand In Shanghai
There’s yet another new hotel in town for Shanghai, but for once we’re more interested in the brand than the specifics of the hotel itself.
The Kerry Hotel Pudong, Shanghai, is the first Kerry hotel – the new five star lifestyle brand from Shangri-La. The aim of which is, apparently, to:
Appeal to the business traveler who prefers a vibrant and relaxed environment without compromising on service or quality. The hotels are contemporary in style and provide a seamless link between business, entertainment and recreation. Extensive leisure facilities are designed to become a social activity hub for both hotel guests and the local community
Although we’re not keen on the name, which doesn’t exactly have the romance of a Shangri-La or the hustle of a Traders, we’re liking the sound of the place. The main restaurant, COOK, is a huge round-the-world affair with 11 open kitchens from Chinese and Japanese to a butcher’s block, patisserie and – stem your desire – a “cheese vault”. Ie, it’s like a super-posh buffet, only you order a la carte. Awesome.
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Andaz Goes Far East With Its First Asian Opening Set For Shanghai
A bed at Andaz WeHo
It’s time to cross the other pond for Andaz, which, not content with conquering America and London, and planning to drape itself over a couple of other continents, has announced plans to open its first hotel in Asia in Shanghai.
It’ll be a swift process: the hotel is scheduled to open this summer.
The hotel will be a 24 story new-build with 307 rooms, situated in the Xintiandi entertainment district of downtown Shanghai, and near the shopping central Huai Hai Zhong Road. There will be 45 suites, as well as a restaurant, brasserie, bar, lounge, spa, pool and meeting space.
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Hotels for the Chinese New Year: Beijing's Opposite House
The Chinese New Year is on Thursday, and if you're heading to China for it, you know that like nothing will be operating properly and everyone will be celebrating. In other words, it's the perfect time for a little treat in the form of a couple nights away. For the next couple days, we'll be looking at some last-minute hotel for Chinese New Year:
Although they're all booked up for Friday night, the New Year itself and the weekend is still open at Beijing's Opposite House, starting from $300 per night. As with their sister hotel in Hong Kong—the Upper House—the Opposite House includes free WiFi, goodies in the minibar, and use of the room's tech goodies.
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