SHANGRI-LA Hotels and Resorts launched last Friday its new Kerry Hotels brand with the opening of Kerry Hotel Pudong, Shanghai, targeting business travellers.
Located in the new Kerry Parkside complex, the 31-storey hotel has 574 guestrooms and suites, with seven floors devoted to Club accommodation that offer round-the-clock butler and Club concierge services, as well as exclusive access to the Club Lounge.
Connected directly to the Shanghai New International Expo Centre, Kerry Hotel Pudong, Shanghai claims to have the city’s largest portfolio of hotel meeting and banqueting facilities at over 7,300m² with two ballrooms, 26 multi-purpose function rooms, a balcony garden, 16 offices and four meeting rooms.
With an emphasis on helping guests “combine work with leisure”, extensive facilities for recreation are also part of the offerings.
These include a three-level sports club featuring a 24-hour gymnasium, a heated indoor swimming pool, an outdoor basketball court and tennis court, a roof garden with a jogging track, a children’s playground, and a wellness day spa that will open in April.
The second Kerry Hotel will open in Beijing after a multimillion-dollar refurbishment of Shangri-La’s Kerry Centre Hotel that is scheduled to be completed by early 2012.
