News on World's highest hotel in Shanghai - The Shanghai Tower J Hotel may set the world record as the highest hotel when finished in 2014

A file photo dated 2008, showing the model of the Shanghai Tower at its groundbreaking ceremony

World's highest hotel in Shanghai

The Shanghai Tower J Hotel may set the world record as the highest hotel when finished in 2014.

The hotel will span between the 84th and 110th floors of the Shanghai Tower, located in the central business district of Lujiazui in Shanghai, China.

Construction of the tower - 632m-tall or 121 stories - began two years ago.

The hotel, a new brand of Shanghai Jin Jiang International Hotels (Group) Co Ltd (Jin Jiang Hotels), will feature 258 luxury guestrooms.

Its lobby will be on the 101st floor.

Jin Jiang Hotels said it would be the world's highest luxury hotel when it opens in late 2014 or early 2015, surpassing the Park Hyatt Shanghai that currently holds the honour.

The Park Hyatt occupies the 79th to 93rd floors of Shanghai's tallest building, the World Financial Centre.

Although the 828m-high Burj Khalifa in Dubai is the world's highest skyscraper, its hotel only occupies the lower stories.

The Shanghai Tower J Hotel will challenge the new Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong expected to open next year.

The Ritz-Carlton occupies the top floors of the 118-floor, 484m-high International Commerce Centre. Its lobby is 425 meters aboveground.

Some residents have shrugged at the news.

"It seems everyone only cares about which one is the highest, so developers constantly scale new heights.

"But what's the significance?" a local resident, surnamed Zhang, asked.

"We have seen skyscrapers spring up overnight - the Jinmao Tower, the World Financial Centre and now the Shanghai Tower.

"What will be next? They will become nothing but a waste of social and financial resources."
Source: China Daily

Published Dec 20 2010

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