Sector brief:  Travel & Leisure

Raffles for Tianjin

December 23, 2009: Raffles, which started in Singapore, will in March 2010 open a new hotel at the top of the Tianjin Center.

Raffles Tianjin, China's newest "penthouse hotel" is expected to open March 2010 at the top of Tianjin Center.
 
The hotel will occupy floors 36 through 50 of the Tianjin Center's West Tower. It will have 116 rooms, including 22 suites.

The hotel, situated in Tianjin's financial district, will have a 24-hour Business Concierge and business guests also have access to the conference and corporate event facilities, which includes a 400-seat ballroom.
 
There will be no billiard room so no one will be able to shoot a tiger hiding below as happened in the Raffles Hotel Singapore a considerable while ago.

Travel Agency Central
reassures us, however, that there will be a Raffles Spa with 10 treatment rooms, a foot reflexology lounge, yoga room and heated swimming pool.
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