Dear Sweet Potatoes, happy Little New Year! As the countdown to the Dragon Year begins, Qingdao has prepared a series of festive activities to make your Spring Festival holiday fun and meaningful. Here are some highlights you won’t want to miss:
1. Laoshan Boutique Homestay Experience
- Environmental Features: With sandy beaches at your doorstep, private hot spring courtyards using Laoshan mountain spring water, balcony resting areas, and some rooms equipped with scenic bathtubs and extra-large terraces. Here, you can hold a cup of hot tea and enjoy an unrivaled view that’s all your own.
- Activity Highlights: Celebrate the New Year with local villagers, partake in a beach fireworks show, make dumplings, engage in fun paper-cutting, create New Year wreaths, take a family portrait for memory’s sake, participate in the “Dragon Walk” red envelope grab, and enjoy professional face painting for the kids, among other festivities.
2. Tsingtao Time Coast
- Environmental Features: Located inside the Tsingtao Beer City on the central coast of Golden Sands, themed around beer elements, it’s highly recommended for families.
- Activity Highlights: DIY couplets, coloring dolls, making Dragon Year lanterns, bamboo weaving, candy ball crafting, Wealth God delivering dumplings, good fortunes for the Dragon Year, and more handprint activities.
3. Mangrove Resort World
- Environmental Features: Seaview hot springs, German style town, Adventure Kingdom, 1+X Cinema, Food Plaza, and more.
- Activity Highlights: Clown interactions, space walking, chef acrobatics, sugar art, dough figurine crafting, calligraphy on fans, national music shows, trendy face changing+fire breathing shows, luminous lion dance, and more.
4. Ado Town
- Environmental Features: A hidden paradise within the city bustle, perfect for Hanfu cultural experiences. Offers 8 themed homestays including two-bedroom, three-bedroom, and four-bedroom options, as well as hot spring log cabins.
- Activity Highlights: The third Shangyuan Lantern Festival, traditional games like cuju/tuhu/chuiwan/diabolo, classic Peking opera, fire breathing face changing, lantern lighting ceremony, spinning tops, and the grand Secret Box of the Floral Isle.
5. Haiquan Bay Resort World Hotel
- Environmental Features: Indoor and outdoor seawater hot springs, large children’s indoor water play area, romantic sunsets on the beach, and a seaside Ferris wheel overlooking a fairy-tale town.
- Activity Highlights: New Year lion dance, Fish Leaping Over the Dragon Gate dance performance, Dragon Year woodblock prints, intangible cultural heritage bamboo weaving, Dragon Year gourmet classes, and more.
Sweet Potatoes, the countdown to the Dragon Year has begun. Get ready for a Spring Festival filled with traditional charm and modern vibrancy!