Every hotel has an address; this one has an ecosystem. Chimelong Hotel opened in 2001 as the flagship stay of the resort that the Chimelong Group was building around it — the property that turned a stretch of Panyu farmland into Chimelong Tourist Resort, China’s 5A-rated resort quarter, and Guangzhou into a theme-park city of the first rank.
The ecological idea, before it was fashionable
From the start the hotel was pitched as China’s ecological hotel: a 360,000-square-metre functional area where the landscape, the animal habitats and the guest rooms share one design. The white tigers and flamingos on the grounds are not decoration — they are the hotel’s founding thesis, that a stay inside the animal kingdom teaches the thing the parks demonstrate at scale. In 2018 the hotel received a comprehensive refresh, bringing the 1,395 rooms up to today’s standard; the bones of the idea stayed exactly where the first guests loved them.
The resort grew around it
What began as one hotel became a resort of four parks and a circus: the Safari Park adjoining its walls, Chimelong Paradise and the seasonal Water Park nearby, and the International Circus performing nightly in its own dome. The city stitched itself in too — Metro Line 3 and later Line 7 gave the resort its own station at Hanxi Changlong, and Guangzhou South Railway Station put Hong Kong and Shenzhen within a high-speed afternoon.
The reviews tell the rest
Guests who arrived in the 2000s still return with their own children. The consistent praise points: the tiger-side breakfast, the sheer convenience of one-stop days, and a staff that explains routes patiently and upgrades a family room when the moment is right. Scored 9.1/10 across more than 15,000 Trip.com reviews and listed among the 2026 Global 100 Family Hotels, the founding flagship shows no sign of handing over the crown.
Whether you come for the safari weekend or the full four-park family week, welcome to the hotel where the Chimelong story was first slept in. 欢迎来到长隆酒店。