Laoshan Secluded Diary

Location: Dongmaiyao Village, Shazikou Street, Laoshan District, Qingdao City 💰 Cost Performance: Unlock the secret mountain and sea for just over 700 RMB per person, buy one get one free for private hot spring rooms! 🏮 First Impressions: Mountain and sea poetry and painting in Huizhou-style architecture Opening the wooden door of the guesthouse feels like stepping into an ink painting🌿—white walls and black tiles of a Huizhou courtyard, bamboo fences covered with vines, and stone mortars and bamboo lanterns hidden in the corners. The best part is the mountain view bathtub room, where the tub faces the sea of clouds over Laoshan. When soaking, the mist swirls around, making it hard to tell if it’s hot spring steam or morning mountain fog☁️～ Private Hot Spring Highlight: The courtyard hot spring pool is supplied directly with Laoshan mountain spring water, filtered and circulated 24 hours a day. You won’t want to get up even when your fingertips wrinkle! Here’s a secret: add a packet of rose bath salt before bed, and with moonlight shining on the pool, your skin will glow with moisture💦～ 🎨 Immersive Experience: When an art guesthouse meets magical activities 1️⃣ Handmade Healing Workshop The guesthouse even has a traditional sachet workshop! Follow the master to pound mugwort and sew brocade sachets, then hang them by your bed so even your dreams smell of herbs🌿. Families can also experience the Laoshan tea ceremony, brewing pre-Qingming tea with mountain spring water. The tea aroma mixed with sea breeze instantly captures the ancient feeling of “a leaf reveals the mountain.”～ 2️⃣ Starry Night Feast The rooftop starry glass room is a must! Lay out the picnic mat provided by the guesthouse, fill it with fresh draft beer from Qingdao Brewery No.1 and mountain spring iced tea🍻, lie back and watch the Milky Way rise behind Laoshan, with the sound of waves gently hitting the shore—what a magical summer night✨! 3️⃣ Tide Pool Adventure At low tide, rush with the kids to the Liuqing River beach, where the guesthouse’s free tide-pooling tools come in handy! Digging clams and picking starfish, the kids holding their “trophies” and screaming is more healing than any popular tourist spot🦀～ 🍃 Culinary Journey: Unlocking the flavors of Laoshan 🌅 Breakfast Surprise Box: Unlock a new surprise every day! Monday’s mackerel dumplings, Tuesday’s Laoshan mushroom tofu soup, Wednesday’s seaweed jelly… all ingredients come straight from the guesthouse’s vegetable garden, and even the small side dish jars look like they were moved from an old house～ 🌊 Seafood Feast: Must order the “Laoshan Three Delicacies Hotpot” for the main meal! Clams, scallops, and abalone simmer in Laoshan spring water, dipped in freshly ground peanut sauce, so fresh you’ll want to drink the broth! Here’s a secret: the restaurant auntie will quietly give you an extra seaweed bun. Don’t ask why—just know she loves this homey vibe🔥～ 🚶‍♀️ Lazy Mode: Switch between mountain and sea in 5 minutes ✅ Mountain Trekking: Behind the guesthouse is a secret bamboo forest trail, 5 minutes straight to the viewing platform overlooking Laoshan’s nine waters and eighteen bends. Even the GPS calls me a “wild trail explorer”🏞️! ✅ Sea Relaxation: A 7-minute walk to the Shanhai Stream beach, dig sand, collect shells, shoot Instagram-worthy photos, and when the waves come, just fling off your sandals and be a three-year-old again🩴～ ✅ Car Touring: Drive to Laoshan Yangkou Scenic Area, take the cable car to the summit Star Pavilion. When the sea of clouds rolls beneath your feet, you finally understand what “paradise on earth” means☁️! 💡 Hidden Tips: Local secrets only insiders know ⏰ Sunrise Code: In summer, arrive at the terrace at 4:30 AM for a triple hit of sea of clouds + morning glow + sunrise over the sea. Remember to wear mosquito-proof pants (don’t ask how fierce the mosquitoes are, just know your legs will be covered in bites)～ 🍺 Beer Mystique: Fresh draft beer directly supplied from Qingdao Brewery No.1, shake it with ice cubes to create dense foam—this is a hidden drinking method only locals understand! 👗 Outfit Formula: Hanfu + straw bag = ancient style photoshoot, slip dress + transparent rain boots = runaway princess by the sea. The guesthouse also provides ancient-style hair accessories and oil-paper umbrellas, with a 200% photo success rate! 🏡 Final Words: This is not a hotel, but the “second face” of Laoshan—after shedding the tourist filter, the truest mountain and sea appearance. Soaking in hot springs listening to the waves, tide pooling and shell collecting, gathering around the fire at night… healing doesn’t need to be far away, just turn around and embrace this mountain and sea.