# InterContinental Shanghai Wonderland

- **Location:** China
- **Categories:** Underwater, Underwater & Underground Stays
- **Style:** quarry hotel, cliff-wall architecture, underwater rooms, 88 metres down
- **Canonical page:** https://farfables.com/stay/intercontinental-shanghai-wonderland-d4a6e006-2ba4-417d-bb11-1a1ef1420f6c

16 storeys down an abandoned quarry

Built 88 metres down the sheer wall of a flooded, abandoned quarry in Songjiang, 16 of its 18 floors sit below ground level and the lowest two underwater, where suites and a restaurant face a vast aquarium. Opened in 2018 as IHG's 200th InterContinental, with waterfalls pouring down the rock face past the glass elevators. The catch: It's a resort-district outpost roughly an hour from central Shanghai with little nearby, public areas draw crowds of day-trippers, and the underwater rooms command a steep premium.

## What's the catch?

The underwater view is often a single window, and it's a premium price.

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