SHANGHAI · FROM ¥1,500 / NIGHT TWIN
InterContinental Shanghai Wonderland
The quarry hotel the internet made famous — sixteen floors cascading down a cliff face, twenty minutes from China’s No.1 course.
SHANGHAI · FROM ¥1,500 / NIGHT TWIN
The quarry hotel the internet made famous — sixteen floors cascading down a cliff face, twenty minutes from China’s No.1 course.
WHY THIS HOTEL
The quarry hotel the internet made famous — sixteen floors cascading down a cliff face, twenty minutes from China’s No.1 course.
Built inside a worked-out quarry outside Songjiang, the Wonderland is the hotel people photograph before they photograph their golf. Two floors sit below the waterline of the quarry lake; the rooms stare up at the cliff or down into the water. It is the most memorable hotel staging point for a Shanghai golf week, and Sheshan International — the WGC-HSBC Champions course — is a twenty-minute drive.
Use it as the west-Shanghai base: Sheshan and Qizhong Gardens to the south, Anting and Meilan Lake as the variety rounds, and the whole city for the non-golf days. Shanghai Links and the Chongming courses sit further out; we sequence them on the way to the airport.
Rooms book out well before Chinese holidays; the golf calendar matters more than the hotel calendar here, so we lock tee times first and the cliff rooms second.
THE GOLF AT THE DOOR
Sheshan is the only place in China where you can sleep in a disused quarry and play three ranked courses within twenty minutes. All three are private — we hold the relationships that get visiting golfers onto the tee.
The closest course to the hotel, literally at the end of the valley. Parkland routing through the Sheshan hills, mature trees, and the most convenient first round after a Shanghai landing.
Shanghai’s championship venue and the course most visiting golfers ask for by name: broad corridors, deep bunkering, and greens built to hold tour-speed approaches. Member club — access is arranged, not booked online.
The city-side alternative when Sheshan’s tee sheet is full: shorter, tighter, and a genuine Shanghai members’ club atmosphere rather than a resort round.
BEYOND THE GOLF
This is the part your non-golfers care about — and the reason the trip works as a week, not a series of tee times.
The hotel is the attraction: two floors above ground, sixteen below, built into the quarry face with a waterfall running down one wall. Walk the rim at dusk — it is the photograph everyone comes for.
The duplex suites put the living room below the waterline behind aquarium glazing, with the bedroom and terrace at lake level. Not for everyone; unforgettable for the ones who book it.
The ‘Yuan’ all-day restaurant sits at the bottom of the quarry with indoor and outdoor seating — breakfast 88 metres below the treeline is the detail guests mention first.
Sheshan National Forest Park, Chenshan Botanical Garden, Guangfulin relics park, Moon Lake sculpture park and Happy Valley are all within fifteen minutes — this is a full non-golf programme, not an afterthought.
The hotel runs heritage-craft night markets and themed packages on the quarry floor through the summer — worth checking dates against your stay.
ASKED BEFORE YOU ASK
Everything else — room categories, caddie arrangements, that back nine your handicap fears — is one message away.
3 courses are profiled above, and a four-night stay comfortably covers three rounds without a single long transfer. Your planner sequences them so the toughest round lands on your freshest morning.
Yes — that is half the reason we book it. The pit itself is the headline, and the full day programme is planned with the same care as the tee sheet.
From about ¥1,500 per night twin; standard InterContinental tiers apply around it. Everything is quoted as one fixed all-in price — room, rounds, caddies, drivers and transfers — so nothing arrives as a surprise on checkout day.
STAY + GOLF, ONE PRICE
Tell us the dates and the group. Day-by-day plan back within one business day, no deposit, no obligation.
PLAN AROUND THIS HOTEL →Photo: Giogioytantan, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0