Karen·Qiandao Lake Hotel (Yacht Sailing Island Manor)

We stayed at Keren Hotel and it happened to be a rainy day. We lay down in the hotel for a day and felt isolated from the world. It was very relaxing and comfortable. The ladies were very warm and considerate. They took us to taste tea, took photos for us, and prepared organic vegetables from the island as souvenirs for us before leaving. I started to miss the ink painting scenery of Qiandao Lake when I got home. The beauty here needs to be savored carefully~ This trip is very healing😍

Very satisfied. I like this kind of high-end hotel that is not popular at all. There is even a disinfection cabinet, which is really family-friendly. Before leaving, I was given a photo. It's really great. I promised my son to come back next year to play with the beautiful aunt.

[Poetic Living] Keren Hotel by Qiandao Lake: A Gentle Encounter for Karen If there is a place that can make people who are too lazy to write reviews can't help but write praises, it must be Qiandao Lake Keren Hotel - this poetic container hidden in the mountains and rivers, with rounded curves to outline the owner's tender love for his wife Keren, and with the ultimate aesthetic details to weave a healing dream for travelers of "being in a cage for a long time, returning to nature". The sense of ritual of a mountain and water appointment It takes only two hours to take the high-speed rail from Shanghai, and the window view changes from urban neon to ink painting. On the way to the hotel by special car, Qiandao Lake's "Golden Belt" has quietly unfolded its gifts: the road lined with cherry blossoms is like a pink ribbon, the floating islands in the blue waves are like scattered green snails, and the ochre-red rock formations expose the texture of the earth before the spring flood - this 30-minute drive is like a carefully designed natural prologue. Hidden world aesthetics: when oriental elegance meets modern craftsmanship The moment you slide open the forest copper door, the noise is automatically muted. Visiting in the off-season before Qingming Festival, I feel that this place is a realistic annotation of "building a house in the human world, but without the noise of cars and horses". Residence: The room is like plain silk kissed by the sun, and the red brick color and the original wood color are dyed with the beauty of wabi-sabi. The tea fragrance oven is filled with the fresh air of Longjing, the glass cups in the disinfection cabinet reflect the rainbow light, and even the arc of the folded towel reveals the warm and respectful hospitality. Garden tour: The antique tea utensils in the collection room quietly tell the years, the floor-to-ceiling windows of the lobby bar frame the flowing garden view, and the small study deep in the corridor on the second floor hides leisure time - every step is an unexpected encounter with beauty. Secret roaming: The poetic narrative of the wildness of the nine islands Walking across the swaying iron cable suspension bridge in the morning mist, nine small islands are scattered like emeralds in the lake. The rusty sunken ship has become a bird station, donkeys and horses are company in the vegetable garden, and anglers condense the morning light into silver lines. Suddenly, wild orchids are in full bloom at the corner, and the lake light leaks out when climbing up. In the sound of partridges, it seems as if you have walked into Wang Wei's Wangchuan scroll. Service: The humanistic elegance of spring breeze The service here is like a fine brushwork and light color painting - no thick ink but heart is everywhere. When you take over the room card, the warmth of white peach tea and the fragrance of wild flowers have quietly greeted you; the housekeeper holds a bamboo basket and explains the wonderful view of the window lattice and the exquisite wood selection of the tea table when leading the way; when the restaurant waiter brings breakfast, he will gently remind you that "today's shrimps are very fresh, just right for porridge"; during the afternoon tea, the rhythm of the housekeeper lifting the pot to divide the soup coincides with the rolling clouds outside the window, and a few words outline the local elegance of "picking tea in spring and fishing for perch in summer". This kind of service does not seek to be amazing, but to be comfortable. Just as Zhang Dai said: "People without hobbies cannot be friends, because they have no deep feelings." - Those who can do these daily trivialities to the extreme must be elegant people with a sincere heart for life. Romantic Easter eggs hidden in the details 1️⃣ The owner uses architecture as a love letter: every soft corner and every curved floor-to-ceiling window are a concrete tribute to his wife's gentle temperament 2️⃣ The mint green RV worth 2 million and the yacht in the lake hide the carefreeness of "trying new tea with new fire, and enjoying poetry and wine while you are young" 3️⃣ The "Star Island Night Banquet" composed of thousands of white stones and firefly chandeliers in the lobby is the designer's modern translation of the word "Thousand Islands" The most touching thing about Keren Hotel is that it goes beyond the accommodation itself - it is an architectural specimen watered with love, a poetic utopia for urban people to temporarily live in, and another grammar to understand Qiandao Lake. If you are also looking for the artistic conception of "spring water is bluer than the sky, and sleeping on a painted boat listening to the rain", you might as well let this lovely story become the footnote of your journey. Tips: After the water level rises in April, the "Golden Belt" gradually disappears, but it is said that the flowers on the lakeside will bloom one after another, which is another kind of charm.