The New Year is approaching again, and the reunion has become even more precious after all kinds of helplessness. Have you thought about how to not waste this wonderful reunion time?

Is it a happy holiday for a big family? Or are three best friends gathering for coffee and bubble bookstore? Or call on friends to exchange information and feelings in order to prepare combat points in advance for the new year?

As an experienced veteran traveler and hard-core self-service tour consumer, after traveling in-depth to East Taihu Lake before the festival, I compiled this good-looking, fun, delicious and easy to shoot East Taihu Lake "Three Days and Two Nights" food, accommodation, travel and shopping guide, hoping to help you save the time to check information to the greatest extent possible.

D1, Wangongdi + East Taihu Ecological Park Cycling + Taihu Oasis + Hepburn Time Restaurant + Suzhou Bay Sports Park/Suzhou Bay Sports Center + LIM CAFÉ+ East Taihu Yacht + Carnival Hotel + East Taihu Hotel/Huayi Hotel·Wang Yan Hot Spring (both have hot springs to soak in).

D2, Shengjiashe + Shangshizhou + Orchid Cuisine +OCC Cafe + Yuehu Terrace Enjoy the music fountain, light show + Suzhou Bay Cultural Center watching the performance + Hua Banquet Restaurant + Le Meridien Hotel.

D3, Taihu Oasis +BFM Art Center + Sand Boat Outlets + Le Meridien Chinese Restaurant, return journey.

There is heaven above, and Suzhou and Hangzhou below. The beauty of Suzhou has long been sung and sung with great colors by talented talents of all dynasties and generations, and has been deeply engraved into our genes. Listen to a soft language of Wu Nong and sing softly, and explore the aesthetics of life in the ancient gardens of Suzhou in the Jiuqu Corridor., intoxicated by the aroma of Soviet-style snacks and tea, and then customize a fitting cheongsam to imagine that you are also a lilac girl, walking gracefully into the ancient streets and alleys covered with moss, stunning the time.

These are all Suzhou, but not all Suzhou.

Therefore, this trip seemed to be not just a movement of space, but also an increase in time.

Friends who love camping can also find fun here. Time Forest has set up a separate camp, equipped with glamping sky screens, tents, tables, chairs and benches to help you easily realize your wild luxury dreams in the tent.

Address: 200 meters north of the intersection of Qiufeng Street and Liuhong Road, Wujiang District

Public transportation: Suzhou Rail Transit Line 4 to Liuhong Road Station, about 200 meters walk

Play time: Recommended one day

Suitable for the crowd: Family parent-child tours, friend gatherings, couple dates, and travel photos

[Taihu Oasis]

Return to the countryside, get close to nature, be idle for a day, and experience Tao Yuanming's happiness. Which urbanite wouldn't want it? Recommended Taihu Oasis Scenic Area as one of the key leisure tourism projects developed by Taihu New City. It has Taihu Oasis Ecological Agricultural Sightseeing Park, Jiangnan Land of Fish and Rice Expo Park, Chaofeng Terrace, Fishing Center and Suzhou Bay No. 1 RV Camp.

Visiting this season, you can not only enjoy the joy of picking strawberries, but also buy the legendary frosted fragrant green vegetables! Soft, glutinous and sweet, not to be missed.

[Suzhou Bay Sports Park| Suzhou Bay Sports Center]: Travel is not just about sightseeing, but you can also make in-depth use of sports facilities in other places

The Winter Olympics is approaching, and sports factors are blooming everywhere. How to better feel the joy of exercise and turn exercise into a conscious lifestyle? The answer is probably to make use of all the facilities available to you, whether it's a hotel gym or a city's sports center.

Suzhou Bay Sports Park covers multiple functions such as ecological restoration, landscape tours, tourism and vacation, outdoor leisure, sports and fitness. It is undoubtedly a paradise for people who value health and love sports.

The park covers an area of 1460 acres and is one of the major ecological civilization projects of the "1058" project in Wujiang District. It has football fields, basketball courts, tennis courts, etc. Among them, a 10-kilometer-long jogging track runs through the entire park, running and experiencing the ecology of East Taihu Lake., is probably the most fashionable way to travel this winter.

【LIM CAFE】

In the park, there is an Internet celebrity cafe [LIM CAFE] with great appearance and food products. The cafe is located in a small white independent building. The extensive use of floor-to-ceiling glass windows allows the building to be well integrated with the surrounding environment and also allows the pastoral scenery to be introduced into the interior to the greatest extent possible.

The hard decoration of the cafe is almost pure white, including the wavy ceiling at the top. The space is only partially lit with bright soft decoration, creating an elegant and playful temperament, just like a girl from Jiangnan.

In addition to providing coffee, this cafe also provides light food, and the quality is quite good. Whether it is to replenish energy after exercise or as a gathering place, LIM CAFÉ can meet needs.

[Suzhou Bay Sports Center]

Suzhou Bay Sports Center is operated by Ali Sports and includes three separate units: swimming pool, gymnasium and commercial service building.

Among them, the gymnasium covers an area of 29,000 square meters, including training halls, badminton halls, basketball halls, etc. With its complete facilities and friendly fees, it has become indispensable for citizens 'lives.

[East Taihu Yacht: Speed and Passion, look at East Taihu from a different perspective]

Since you are here in East Taihu Lake, how can you miss the opportunity to visit the water?

Visiting East Taihu Lake by speedboat and getting in close contact with the "water of the Song Dynasty" is an indispensable experience for traveling to East Taihu Lake.

Looking at the scenery on land, you will feel the same in the water. Any city nourished by water will always have a little more aura, so for travelers, they have to find a way to get in touch with the city from a different angle. The speed and passion of the speedboat can bring us into the dynamics and charm of the new East Taihu Lake in the first place, facing the lakeside city across the water, and meeting different beauty.

[Restaurant Recommendations] Hepburn Time

As the No. 1 Internet celebrity restaurant in Wujiang District where locals have to queue up to eat, Hepburn Time is said to be full every night.

The chef comes from Chaoshan, the capital of food. When Cantonese cuisine meets Jiangnan, the fusion dishes launched have both local characteristics and personal creativity and ideas. The appearance and taste are great. It is no wonder the reputation will be so popular. If you can make an appointment, this is a good choice for New Year's Eve dinner.

That's right, if you want to go to Hepburn Time, you must book in advance!

[Restaurant recommendations] Carnival Hotel

Suzhou cuisine is world-famous. To taste authentic Suzhou cuisine, Carnival Hotel located in Suzhou Bay Food Xintiandi Business District is a good choice.

[Hotel Recommendations] East Taihu Hotel

The best way to end a dynamic day is to stay at a hotel with a hot spring, such as the East Taihu Hotel or Huayi Hotel.

East Taihu Hotel is divided into Wanghu Building, VIP Building and Villa Building. It has 242 rooms, including terrace rooms with lake views, family villas, pet rooms (yes, it is so considerate), hot spring suites and other room types, which can meet different groups of people. Different needs.

The hotel comes with its own hot springs, natural carbonated hot springs, which have the effect of maintaining health and beauty. In addition to the 12 open-air soaking pools, there are also geothermal steam steaming rooms, salt stone steaming rooms, etc. In order to meet the needs of parent-child guests, the hotel has set up a children's park and a small animal park. For the Spring Festival trip where basically families travel, it is definitely a gospel level service.

[Hotel Recommendations] Huayi Hotel + Wangyan Hot Spring

Huayi Hotel, located on the bank of East Taihu Lake, is Huayi's first international luxury hotel in Suzhou and the first international luxury hotel under InterContinental Hotels Group. It is also a hotel with its own hot spring pool on the balcony!

The hotel has 165 rooms and 4 villas, integrating vacation, conference, parent-child, and health care. Stay here, you can enjoy the beautiful scenery of Suzhou Bay and East Taihu Lake at the same time.

An added benefit of staying in Huayi is that you can enjoy Wangyan Hot Spring for free.

In the severe winter, being in Tangquan, let the heat from the earth's core continuously nourish the cold body, and let the family soak together and be healthy together. It's a pleasure to think about it.

Wangyan Hot Spring also provides Tangquan afternoon tea. While you can soak in the infinity swimming pool, you can also enjoy hot drinks of melons and fruits. This time, how can you say it's cool?

[Life is short and life needs art]: Shengjiashe + Shangshizhou + Orchid Cuisine +OCC Cafe + Yuehu Terrace Enjoy music fountains, light shows + Suzhou Bay Cultural Center watching performances + Le Meridien Hotel

[Shengjiashe]

Although the East Taihu Lake is the place where Suzhou and Suzhou started again for a thousand years, there are also no shortage of ancient streets and alleys for so many years. Made in Jiangnan, Wujiang, Jiangsu. Wujiang has a history of silk weaving for more than 4000 years. Shengjiashe was once the most prosperous area of Wujiang City. It contains the oriental silk that the European royal family longed for and is a street and street that Marco Polo once visited.

Shengjiashe is known as the "Cheongsam Town" and is a stop that travelers can't miss. It is a very wonderful feeling to experience the old customs of Laosu in the modern East Taihu Lake. There are several cheongsam shops hidden in Shengjiashe. The old masters have superb craftsmanship. They might as well take their mother to customize one and keep it as the most perfect memorial of East Taihu Lake.

[Shangshu Zhou]

Reading never crosses mountains and mountains, and drinking tea crosses thousands of rivers and mountains. Just, why did you write to the mainland?

Just because of that sentence: The water in East Taihu Lake must be from the Song Dynasty. So, I wanted to visit.

If a city has the blessing of mountains and rivers, it is a gift from God; but life requires us to manage it ourselves. Borges said that if there was a heaven, it would look like a bookstore. In order to get as close to heaven as possible, in the 128 countries I have traveled to, I will leave some time to experience the bookstores in almost every country, because I always feel that people are warm and cold, cities are noisy, and words can travel through time. existence, and a city with a temperature must have a warm humanities bookstore.

It is on the Shangshu Island.

From "the starry sky of the Pre-Qin Dynasty" to "Ode to Elegance", from "Looking Back at the Ming and Qing Dynasties" to "the Garden of the Republic of China", Shangshu Island uses time as an axis to lay out the wisdom of the ancients one by one. Walking towards a cabinet of books is like walking towards a bright era; changing to a bookcase is like swimming in a cultural occasion.

The bookstore in your heart will stop and stop, leaving time for reading. Dividing the time of your trip to a bookstore will likely become the most unforgettable and tranquil memory.

[OCC Cafe]

If a person loves his hometown, one of the ways to express it must be his overall acceptance and praise of his hometown's lifestyle, as well as his inheritance. Jiangnan people, with white walls and black tiles, hide the strongest enthusiasm and self-confidence in their gentle and shallow taste. On the basis of this aesthetic, OCC coffee aesthetics integrates the characteristics of the times and the current young people's understanding of life, creating an almost pure white humanistic space.

The sun in winter afternoon shines into the room through the large floor-to-ceiling windows and falls on the girl's shoulders. Green plants are produced wantonly under the spiral escalator, and the sweetness of coffee fills the entire space. In order to cater to the New Year's atmosphere, the store carefully added a lot of red festive elements, and the mood was overjoyed.

There are many beautiful girls who come for afternoon tea. They also take photos, complementing the environment and becoming part of the scenery.

[Yuehutai]

Starting from the cruise ship terminal of East Taihu Ecological Park (East Taihu Hotel also has a speedboat terminal) and arriving at Taihu New City Lake Reading Platform from the water is the most exciting way to travel.

If East Taihu Lake is the pearl of Suzhou, then the Yuehu Terrace can be the pearl of East Taihu Lake. Yuehutai is located on the north bank of East Taihu Lake, with a total investment of about 820 million yuan. It has a platform of nearly 50,000 square meters. The "8"-shaped Looking Back Landscape Bridge extends 211 meters outward and is inserted into Taihu Lake, like a bird spreading its wings and a fish in water.

Yuehutai is known as the green axis of the center of Taihu New City. It is the future urban core of Wujiang and the image symbol of the area. Traveling around the lake by a speedboat seems to be following its curve, like the arc of a white fish in Taihu Lake. It is flexible and slippery. It is a fish leaping over the dragon gate and a dragon returning to the sea. The meaning is so beautiful that I always feel that it is the most appropriate during the New Year Festival.

In the evening, there is a magnificent music fountain and light show on the Lake Reading Terrace. Don't miss it.

[Suzhou Bay Cultural Center]

Suzhou Bay Cultural Center is the third largest theater complex in China, with Suzhou Bay Grand Theater and Yuehu Terrace at its core.

The Grand Theater is designed by international architect Christian de Bauzanbach. It is inspired by the water sleeves of the thousand-year-old Kunqu Opera and the implicit poetry of Suzhou gardens. Out of simplicity, the presentation is contemporary and international.

The Grand Theater is Asia's first immersive technology performing arts theater and the world's largest. It has an opera hall that can accommodate 1600 people, a 600-seat theater hall and more than ten rehearsal halls. During the Spring Festival, many classic plays are staged here. For example, Bai Xianyong's youthful version of "The Peony Pavilion". If you visit East Taihu Lake during the festival, don't miss it. The beauty of Kunqu Opera must be carefully observed on site to be amazing.

[Restaurant Recommendations] Orchid Cuisine

Lan Cuisine is a Japanese restaurant that is jokingly called the "East Taihu Lake Japanese Food Ceiling" by our friends. One of the reasons is that you can achieve freedom of eating food with 200+ per capita...

Orchid cuisine is deeply rooted in the essence of Japanese life aesthetics. Whether it is the layout of the space, the details of the decoration, the selection of dishes, or even the design of the dishes, it all reveals the store's deep understanding and yearning for a better life.

Enjoy cooking in a Japanese space with a strong sense of immersion is the best reward for a day of crazy fun. Japanese ingredients pay attention to their original flavor. The simpler the method, the higher the requirements for the ingredients. The products of orchid cuisine such as thick-cut sashimi, sweet shrimp and peony shrimp, suki-pot, tempura, etc. have withstood the test of our picky tongue.

Address: Building A3, Suzhou Bay Food Xintiandi, No. 539 Lake View Street, East Taihu Lake

[Hotel recommendations] Le Meridien Suzhou Bay

Suzhou's first Le Méridien originated from a resort hotel brand in Paris."Explore the world and reveal the destination" is its brand commitment and has always been committed to providing guests with an extraordinary travel experience. It is no wonder that when the song god Jacky Zhang held a concert in Suzhou, he chose to stay here after inspecting dozens of hotels in Suzhou three times.

Inspired by the local culture of Suzhou, Le Meridien of East Taihu Lake introduces Taihu Lake landscape into the room business. Through every unique ingenuity, it embodies the unique elegance of Jiangnan.

The Spring Festival has not yet arrived, and the festive atmosphere in the hotel has exploded. What was surprising was that the hotel actually prepared us New Year's cakes and Le Mérien's limited edition ice whites. We had a light drink and became intoxicated in the night sky of East Taihu Lake. It was the most beautiful light for our first trip in 2022.

[Enjoy luxurious life and return home with a full load] BFM Art Center + Sand Boat Outlets + Le Meridien Chinese Restaurant

[BFM Art Center]

It was quite a surprise to meet a contemporary art exhibition hall in East Taihu Lake, one of the core places of Jiangnan culture. The newly opened BFM Art Center has its first exhibition with the theme of "The Glory of Everything" and invited 18 famous contemporary artists from across the country. Its works cover painting, installation, sculpture, image, pottery, jewelry and other categories, and are quite pioneering.

Oscar Wilde, the pioneer of aestheticism, said that all art is useless. Uplessness is the meaning of art's existence, because uselessness frees them from vulgarity. Life itself is commonplace until the participation of art.

Without any purpose or expectations, go to an exhibition carefully and feel the emotions of the creator. It seems that there has been no change after seeing it, but when you have seen 100 exhibitions, life will definitely be different.

Afternoon tea is also available in the BFM Pavilion, and gathering in places with a strong artistic atmosphere is one of the most attitudes towards life in Jiangnan. Recommended.

[Sand Boat Outlets]

Take advantage of the joy and return with a full load. The last stop on the trip must be Outlets-buy the whole family's uniforms in one stop and become the brightest family in the circle of relatives!

As Suzhou's first comprehensive Ole, it has a volume of 120,000 square meters and brings together well-known brands at home and abroad in China, covering fine men's and women's clothing, outdoor sports, trendy shoes and bags, children's wear, catering, etc. Among them, Italian Space launched huge discounts at the end of the year and the new spring. This wool must be collected.

[Le Meridien Chinese Restaurant]

The Chinese restaurant at Le Meridien Hotel was an unexpected gain. Although it was a last-minute decision to eat in the hotel, the speed of serving was unambiguous. Instead of taking the usual route, we ordered by name, and as a result, we ordered a table full of Chinese New Year dishes. This table of Emmy reunion dinner is most suitable for being a happy ending for the Spring Festival trip and the whole family.

[Summary]

In the world of adults, there is no word "easy", so it is even more necessary to actively press the pause button to give the body that has been working hard for a year a vacation, relax the tight nerves, and spend a reunion with the family that has been separated for a long time. Complete relaxation is also the most effective way to recharge. Have a good rest and start again.

I wish you a happy New Year, a tiger and a tiger, and a winner in the battlefield of your life.

(Thanks to @ Sultan for providing the aerial photo of this article)