PHOTO: FEATURE CHINA/BARCROFT IMAGES/ InterContinental Shanghai Wonderland: The building has 18 floors, 16 of which are below ground including two submerged under water.
I am in the cavernous reception hall of the InterContinental Shanghai Wonderland when one of the beautifully besuited and immaculately coiffured executives here to celebrate the opening of this, IHG’s 200th hotel, asks what I think of it.
“It’s insane,” says someone. Which seems a little rude until I realise it’s me.
This pops out without permission from my brain, which is somewhat overwhelmed by a hotel which cascades 16 storeys down the side of an old quarry and cost gazillions to build. Exact figures vary (two billion Yuan [NZ$434 milllion] was mentioned, as was US$500 million [NZ$732 million]) but it’s a lot of zeroes.
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