Oriental Pearl 230 Sky Hotel: What a Night Up the Tower Is Like
Sleeping inside the Oriental Pearl Tower is possible. The 东方明珠230空中酒店 sits at the 230-metre mark of the Shanghai landmark, and one visitor's account of a night there is essentially the whole of what is publicly documented about the stay.
What that visit amounts to: you are in the tower after the last lift of day-trippers goes down, and the city stays lit below you through the night. The point of the room is the view and the hour, not the fittings. Treat it as personal experience rather than a fixed itinerary — there is no published schedule for a night in the tower.
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