DESIGN CONCEPT

Once the favourite summer getaway of Taiwan’s President the hotel dates back to 1901. Sun Moon Lake stands at an elevation of 748 metres and is Taiwan 's biggest lake.

Recent renovations and additions by Kerry Hill Architects have resurrected the property to an new international level - a first for this part of the world. The Lalu has been updated to truly international luxury standards while retaining its ties with tradition and local custom.

Mixing different traditional Asian architectural vocabularies with modern construction methods, the Lalu provides a contemporary Taiwanese masterpiece of contemplative architecture.

Influenced by the built tradition of the Lalu tribe, the area’s aboriginal people, award-winning Kerry Hill architects used stacked slate/granite, large slabs of stone and crafted timber. Simple volumes are multiplied both inside and out to give a complex interplay of containment and space.

Intimacy of the panelled rooms is created well with fireplaces and simple, though elegant and deeply comfortable, furniture. Accents such as moon-shaped gates or locally sourced urns and other smaller tokens of local chic further anchor the hotel in its tradition, making it worthy of its historical reputation and new status.

FEATURES

Hotel features include:
•    5 restaurants and bars serving both western and asian flavours
•    Spa with organic treatments
•    60m swimming pool
•    well equipped gymnasium
•    Conference facilities: rooms for 6 to 300 people
•    Secretarial services
•    Full conference and banquet facilities

7 Private Villas include:
•    private swimming pools, courtyards and pavilions

98 rooms, suites and villas including a Presidential Suite
•    Modem line
•    Satellite TV
•    Stereo
•    2-line phone
•    Safe
•    Minibar
•    Air conditioning
•    Balcony
•    Airport transfer on request
•    Laundry/dry cleaning

Nearby:
•    authentic cultural exhibits, festivals and events in a unique natural environment
•    temples, gardens and pagodas
•    experience the beauty of Sun Moon Lake

LOCATION

1.5 hours from Taichung Domestic Airport, 3.5 hours from Chiang Kai Shek International Airport