How would you like to wake up surrounded by gorgeous blue waters and pretty fish?
Well, you soon can.
For the last 10 years, InterContinental Shanghai Wonderland has been building an underwater hotel which is slated to open in December. Sheshan Shimao Quarry Hotel will be available for booking on Nov. 20, according to Insider.
This magical getaway will make it feel like your vacationing at Bikini Bottom.
Except that you’ll be inside a mountain.
The hotel lies at the base of a quarry and is built into Tianmen Mountain about 20 miles outside of Shanghai, China.
The hotel will have 337 rooms and suites.
It’s 18 stories tall and has 16 underground levels.
The rooms on the bottom two floors are completely submerged underwater and face a 33-foot-deep aquarium.
The underwater areas of the hotel also include a restaurant, pool, and watersport center.
This place even has its own waterfall which is adjacent to the hotel.
The majority of the hotel rooms have balconyies and face the waterfall along the scenic cliffs and hills since it overlooks Tianmen Mountain National Park.
The 61,000-square-meter-resort is also near the Sheshan Mountain Range, Sheshan National Forest Park, and Chenshan Botanic Gardens.
The hotel will bungee jumping and rock climbing off of the quarry space.
The hotel was designed like British architecture firm Atkins along with JADE+QA.
It apparently took more than 5,000 to bring this project together.
Architects aimed to reduce the footprint of the building and impact on the environment but building it in the abandoned quarry.
The hotel will generate its own geothermal and solar energy to power its functions. The hotel also has a greentop roof to blend in with the natural surrounds and will serve as a palce where guests and relax and enjoy.
Architects said they aimed to “push the limits of design,” according to Unilad.
Completely the project, however, was no easy task.
“It’s been a fight against gravity,” chief engineer Chen Xiaxiang told China Daily.
“Many of the problems we encountered were unprecedented,” Chen said. “We had no technologies to import or copy.”
The bottom room will be about 600 meters lower than the presidential suite of the J Hotel on the 109th floor of the world’s second-tallest building which is Shanghai Tower.
The five-star hotel is something straight out of Atlantis. The rooms will start at $487 a night and you can book them here.
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