Continuously Upgrading Products and Experiences to Enrich High-End Coastal Resort Options in Clearwater Bay
Lingshui, HainanMay 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Two lifestyle brands under IHG Hotels & Resorts—Hotel Indigo Hainan Clearwater Bay and Kimpton Hainan Clearwater Bay—celebrate their first anniversary today. Since their grand opening on May 25, 2025, this dual-brand resort complex has been rooted in guests’ accommodation needs, deeply cultivating its brand identity, integrating local characteristics, iterating product facilities, refreshing resort scenarios, and refining service details. It has steadily grown into a highly recognizable high-end lifestyle resort landmark along the Clearwater Bay coastline.
On the occasion of its first anniversary, the two hotels leverage their differentiated brand DNA to enrich the high-end resort landscape of Clearwater Bay and reshape the quality of guests’ coastal living experiences. Kimpton Hainan Clearwater Bay, with its avant-garde design, effortless socializing, and personalized experiences, precisely caters to the new generation’s pursuit of trendy vacations, pet-friendly travel, fine dining, and outdoor leisure. Hotel Indigo Hainan Clearwater Bay, inheriting the brand’s core of neighborhood exploration, deepens its family-friendly service system, revitalizes family travel experiences, and allows guests to discover more travel joy amidst Clearwater Bay’s natural ecology, local culture, and warm companionship.
“The first anniversary is a significant milestone in brand operations and a key moment for us to review genuine guest feedback and consolidate operational experience,” said Ma Jing, General Manager of Kimpton Hainan Clearwater Bay and Hotel Indigo Hainan Clearwater Bay. “Kimpton and Hotel Indigo have distinctly different brand tones, catering to the vacation needs of various guest segments. Over the past year, we have meticulously refined product details and deepened service experiences, striving to ensure that every visit offers guests new scenes, richer content, and more comprehensive services. As we embark on a new operational journey, both hotels will further solidify their differentiated brand interpretations, injecting a more diverse lifestyle paradigm into Clearwater Bay’s high-end coastal resort market.”
Kimpton Hainan Clearwater Bay: Continuously Enhancing Resort Experiences to Meet Guests’ Expectations for an Ideal Seaside Vacation
As Kimpton’s first resort hotel in China, Kimpton Hainan Clearwater Bay has adhered to the brand philosophy of “Empowering spaces with design, connecting lives through socializing” since its opening. It integrates avant-garde space design, effortless social atmospheres, pet-friendly experiences, signature dining and bars, and outdoor leisure scenarios into guests’ journeys. Over the past year, the hotel has continuously innovated related products and polished experience details based on genuine guest feedback and accommodation needs.
The hotel continues to refine its layout of two-bedroom and three-bedroom pool villas, precisely meeting the privacy and family reunion needs of high-net-worth guests. In creating coastal leisure scenarios, the hotel has upgraded beach area amenities, adding lounge chairs and related facilities. The multi-dimensional interconnected layout of the beach, pool, lawn, and outdoor public spaces constructs a seamless and immersive coastal leisure route, satisfying guests’ needs for an immersive connection with nature.
Pet-friendliness is a hallmark of the Kimpton brand. Since opening, the hotel has continuously enhanced exclusive pet experiences, launching themed activities like “Kimpton Pet Fashion Show,” outdoor interaction spaces, and a dedicated pet playground, making beloved pets warm companions on seaside vacations. Simultaneously, the hotel keeps expanding outdoor leisure and nature experience projects, adding trendy sports like pickleball, beach volleyball, and Pilates, and meticulously creating an outdoor plantation called “Ajin’s Farm,” offering parent-child gardening classes to provide guests with more diverse outdoor interaction options.
The all-day dining restaurant Lu Jian, Hai Yu Chinese Restaurant, Tihu Japanese Restaurant, and lobby bar Bar Ronero create a diverse culinary landscape for guests. The newly opened Tihu Bar boasts expansive tropical sea views, presenting stylish coastal nightlife with Japanese-inspired signature cocktails, selected sake, and Japanese whisky.
Based on the year-round experience upgrades, the hotel has launched a series of brand short films titled “Stylish Seaside Vacation,” conveying the Kimpton lifestyle proposition through intuitive and vivid imagery, allowing every guest to enjoy a seaside vacation tailored to their own pace.
Hotel Indigo Hainan Clearwater Bay: Deepening Family-Friendly Experiences to Capture Cherished Family Travel Moments
Since its opening, Hotel Indigo Hainan Clearwater Bay has inherited the brand’s core of neighborhood exploration, focusing on the accommodation needs of high-end family guests. It enriches the family service system, customizes exclusive children’s amenities, and regularly creates daily themed parent-child activities.
Guided by the philosophy “Discover More Goodness with You,” the hotel condenses the family vacation experience into three core chapters: Exploring Coastal Ecology, including nature experiences like jungle exploration and insect observation; Tracing Local Culture, featuring interactive themes such as intangible cultural heritage mother-of-pearl inlay, bamboo weaving, and Li brocade fridge magnets; and Cherishing Parent-Child Moments, offering activities like fun board games, coffee ground crafts, and movie nights. By multi-dimensionally expanding family vacation scenarios, the hotel helps families capture beautiful travel moments through nature exploration and warm companionship.
Meanwhile, the hotel refines the family travel experience in numerous details, thoughtfully providing a full set of children’s amenities, including toothbrushes, slippers, bathrobes, toilet seat adapters, and step stools. From hardware facilities to themed activities, this comprehensive refinement ensures that every stay becomes a joyful journey for families to discover goodness and cherish warm memories.
Anniversary Offers Launch, Celebrating Joyful Children’s Day
Coinciding with the first anniversary, Kimpton Hainan Clearwater Bay launches an online celebration, offering multiple benefits such as curated room packages, signature dining deals, and fun interactive prize draws to thank guests for their long-standing trust and companionship. As Children’s Day approaches, Hotel Indigo Hainan Clearwater Bay plans a series of child-friendly themed activities, blending immersive experiences like intangible cultural heritage crafts, ocean-themed handicrafts, parent-child cooking, and children’s face painting, allowing families to enjoy a delightful holiday amidst the coastal scenery.
Leveraging Differentiated Experiences to Continuously Enhance Clearwater Bay’s Destination Appeal
The first anniversary marks a new starting point for the dual hotels to iterate, advance, and build momentum for the future. Moving forward, both hotels will continue to rely on their differentiated brand DNA, broaden the boundaries of resort experiences, and create vacation memories that transcend mere accommodation through iteratively upgraded product configurations and meticulously tailored services. This will comprehensively cover diverse guest segments, including families, Gen Z travelers, and pet owners, constructing a new paradigm for high-end resort living in Clearwater Bay that combines cultural warmth with distinctive recognition.