Shangri-La opens Hotel in Chengdu

Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts has opened a new hotel in China, the Shangri-La Hotel, Chengdu the group's first hotel in Southwest China.

Shangri-La Hotel, Chengdu is a 25-minute drive from Chengdu International Airport and a convenient 15-minute walk to the Chunxi Road Pedestrian Precinct shopping area. It is located in the city centre in the historic site of the Swell Fun, the oldest wine lane in the world according to Guinness World Records. The hotel overlooks the Jinjiang River and is next to Hejiang Pavilion - built during the Tang Dynasty and now considered a lucky site for local residents.

The 593-room hotel offers one of the largest guestroom sizes in the city centre with a minimum size of 42 square metres and up to 276 square metres for suites. Each room includes a spacious working area, a full marbled bathroom and wall-mounted LCD TV. The deluxe rooms feature views of Jinjiang River. In addition, 26 serviced apartments cater to the special needs of long-term guests.

The Horizon Club rooms and suites offer guests panoramic views, personalised service and extensive privileges, such as use of the meeting room and business centre, a dedicated concierge, complimentary American buffet breakfast, afternoon tea and evening cocktails at the elegant Horizon Lounge.

The hotel’s four restaurants and bars include Cafe Z, which showcases nine open “food theatres” that deliver creatively presented and enticing international dishes. Shang Palace, Shangri-La’s signature Chinese restaurant serves fine Cantonese and Sichuanese cuisine and offers 17 private dining rooms that cater for groups of four to 40. Mooney’s is a traditional Irish Pub and the lobby lounge provides refreshments and live music.

Inspired by the legend of Shangri-La in the novel Lost Horizon, CHI, The Spa at Shangri-La – Shangri-La’s signature spa brand – offers treatments and therapies based on Chinese and Himalayan wellbeing rituals and traditions. With 11 treatment rooms set in an area of approximately 900 square metres, the Shangri-La Hotel, Chengdu features one of the largest spas among the city’s five-star hotels. In addition, the hotel’s health club facilities include a gym, indoor swimming pool, outdoor tennis court and sauna.

A range of banquet and meeting facilities are also available. The grand ballroom, with a floor space of 2,100 square metres and a nine-metre-high ceiling, is the largest of its type in the city centre, and provides direct access via a large lift - making it even possible to drive a car inside for exhibits. For more intimate occasions, a selection of 16 additional function rooms and an auditorium are also available.

Chengdu is not only the hometown of the panda, but is also home to the only panda breeding and research centre in the world. One of China’s top tourism cities, Chengdu offers many World Heritage listed scenic areas and various direct transportation into Tibet. Chengdu is the capital of Sichuan Province and was designated by the State Council as Southwest China’s centre of science, technology, commerce, trade and finance and hub of transportation and telecommunications.

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