What treasures are hidden in Shanghai's first Penguin Resort Hotel? Take a sneak peek! 20,000 rooms have been sold before opening
As the summer travel season begins, Shanghai's cultural and tourism market has ushered in a new round of consumption boom with constant highlights: Starting from July 1, Shanghai's first immersive penguin science hotel - Jinqiao Haichang Penguin Resort Hotel will be officially unveiled, which will bring tourists a high-quality, immersive leisure experience of "staying in a penguin hotel and seeing real penguins"; Shanghai Happy Valley held a youthful "Rainbow Run" event, where more than a thousand young people ran and reveled in colorful powder, commemorating the colorful time of their youth in a unique way.
Jinqiao Haichang Penguin Resort Hotel is located at the intersection of Peifeng Road and Tengbo Road in Lingang New Area. It is one of the major tourism investment projects in Lingang New Area and is jointly built by Shanghai Haichang Ocean Park and Shanghai Jinqiao Lingang Comprehensive Area Investment Development Co., Ltd. The hotel is uniquely designed, with the exterior inspired by the killer whale and waves in the Haichang LOGO, highlighting the marine style; the main entrance canopy adopts the shape of a penguin family, which is warm and distinctive.
The most eye-catching feature of the hotel is the immersive 360° panoramic penguin exhibition pool in the lobby. This is not only a micro-ecosystem for penguins, but also a unique landscape of the hotel. Visitors can observe the penguin life incubator, as well as penguins playing in the water and strolling leisurely on land. In addition, penguin feeding shows will be held from time to time in the lobby and restaurant area, allowing visitors to interact closely with penguins while enjoying delicious food.
The hotel's 372 childlike parent-child rooms are designed with eight penguin themes, where guests can watch penguins from all angles and up close. Throughout the hotel, guests can gain an in-depth understanding of the landscape of penguin habitats, feel the penguins' living environment, and experience the vitality and vitality of the original ecology in various areas. Through immersive penguin science and parent-child vacation experiences, hotel designers hope to inspire children's awe of nature and cultivate their awareness of protecting the polar regions and the oceans.
What is even more attractive is that guests of the Penguin Resort Hotel can enjoy unlimited access to Shanghai Haichang Ocean Park for two days, including three star theaters, six theme venues, and close contact with 100,000 marine animals. In addition, the first batch of guests of the resort hotel will have the opportunity to become a shared penguin adoption officer, and regularly obtain videos and photos of the adopted penguins' lives, realizing the dream of "raising penguins online". At the same time, Shanghai Haichang Ocean Park will join hands with Ctrip to launch a lucky draw event of "staying in the Penguin Hotel, winning Antarctic tickets" to help tourists realize their dreams of traveling to Antarctica.
As one of the supporting resort hotels under Shanghai Haichang Ocean Park, Penguin Resort Hotel, Shanghai Haichang Ocean Resort Hotel and the first Ultraman theme hotel in China together form the Shanghai Haichang Ocean Park resort accommodation matrix. According to relevant personnel from the park, Penguin Resort Hotel has sold 20,000 room nights in the pre-sale stage, and it is expected to be fully booked every day during the summer vacation this year, becoming a highlight of Shanghai's cultural tourism consumption during the summer vacation.
With the official launch of the hotel, Shanghai Haichang Ocean Park and surrounding well-known cultural and tourism projects such as Yaoxue Ice and Snow World, Shanghai Planetarium, and China Maritime Museum have formed a cluster, which will further amplify the aggregation effect, maximize the cultural and tourism potential of the Lingang New Area, and extend the tourist travel cycle. The reporter also learned that Shanghai Haichang Phase II will be opened in 2025, and will complement and develop with the Phase I park to meet the needs of more tourists for high-quality cultural and tourism resources, thereby further promoting the integrated development of culture, commerce and tourism in the Lingang New Area and improving the city's service level.
In Songjiang District, Shanghai Happy Valley will be transformed into a music and entertainment venue during the summer vacation, bringing many new holiday options to citizens and tourists. On July 5, Happy Valley EV Electronic Music Festival will return with a bang, and big artists such as Zhang Yuan, Wang Yuexin, TizzyT, ONER, Sha Yiting, Zhao Ke and others will join in to ignite an audio-visual feast. From July 19 to August 9, Shanghai Happy Valley will work with Tencent Music Entertainment Group to create the Kugou Wild Music Stage, where 14 artists including Xu Mengjie, Rikimaru, An Qi, Mika and others will take turns to sing and perform, with high energy.
Shanghai Maya Beach Water Park and Happy Valley are linked together. Photo by Meng Yuhan
For families with children, Shanghai Happy Valley will also launch a new large-scale indoor project "Bubble Wars" during the summer vacation. With a dreamy ocean theme and a three-story space of over 1,000 square meters, the design combines education with entertainment and is a paradise for parents and children. In addition, there are all kinds of slides, mirror mazes, dreamy jumping clouds, ball kingdoms, rock climbing and other fancy entertainment projects. Parents can also enjoy the world of fun with their children in the cool indoor environment during the hot summer.
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