Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts will debut a new five-star hotel in the historic city of Shenyang, which is home to the only other existing royal palace in mainland China after the Forbidden City in Beijing. The 424-room Shangri-La Hotel, Shenyang will open along the city’s 'Golden Corridor' in August this year.
The lobby’s soaring 10-metre ceiling is supported by marble-clad columns depicting wind and clouds in a traditional Chinese, auspicious graphic style. Behind the reception desk, a copy of a Song Dynasty painting found in the Shenyang Museum featuresa flock of soaring cranes, representing health and flowing treasure.
Also on the top floor of the hotel is Shinsen, a speciality restaurant and bar. Its contemporary environment features a sushi and sake bar, teppan private dining rooms and a rooftop terrace. Showcasing Shangri-La’s restaurant design and cuisine concepts, all-day dining restaurant Café Liaois a dramatic food theatre with an extensive selection of Asian and internationalcuisines using both local and imported produce.
For meetings, the hotel offers 4,026 square metres of space on two floors. On level two, the grand ballroom is the largest of its kind in northeast China.
The 1,900-square-metre pillarless ballroom has a 600-square-metre pre-function area with floor-to-ceiling-windows and a nine-metre-high ceiling. Additional meeting facilities include asecond 566-square-metre ballroom and seven function rooms, one of which offers a 3,015-square-metre rooftop garden.
The hotel's contemporary style health and recreation facilities include CHI, The Spa, with nine luxurious private spa suites; a rooftop tennis court; 25-metre indoor heated swimming pool; jacuzzi; sauna, and steam bath. The fitness centre provides personal training in addition to group and individual exercise programmes.