Strictly speaking, this amazing luxury Shanghai hotel is not actually underwater. Not at all dark and dreary as you might expect, this remarkable hotel is filled with light and looks out onto a lake. The hotel was built into the cliff side of an abandoned quarry, and nearly all the bedrooms look out onto the quarry lake and a man-made waterfall. You will find the underwater part of the hotel in the Mr. Fisher seafood restaurant, which features an aquarium glass wall below the water surface, where sharks and stingrays swim by as you dine. Unique activities include a genuine rock-climbing wall on the cliff face and a zip line over the lake.

InterContinental Shanghai Wonderland , 5188 Chen Hua Rd at Ding Yuan Rd, Songjiang District, Shanghai, China, +86 21 6766 888

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