Tag: Shenzhen
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Sky High and Slightly Smug in Shenzhen
Some hotels trade on geography like it’s a personality trait. White sand beaches so soft you feel guilty walking on them. Alpine perches where you’re served fondue while staring into the moral abyss of a glacier. And then there’s this place, which has decided correctly that the most dramatic natural wonder of the modern world…
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Intercontinental Shenzhen: Calm, Coffee and Clever Toilets in Shenzhen
Big international chains, when done properly, are not soulless monoliths but something closer to a warm bath drawn at precisely the right temperature. You arrive frazzled, over-stimulated, slightly cross with the world after another immigration queue that seems to have been designed by a sadist, and there it is: beige, marbled, quietly humming with competence.…
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Renaissance Shenzhen Bay: A Look into the Future
Shenzhen is the future. Not in the vague, Instagram-filtered sense that one throws around like confetti in European cities, but the proper, actual future. The sort where you step off a plane and feel that everything you thought was cutting-edge back home is suddenly quaint, pedestrian even. And at the heart of this futurism sits…
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The Travel Critic 