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Stay on a Soviet Battleship Hotel in China

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Ready to move up from a youth hostel but not in the mood for a cookie-cutter upmarket hotel? China’s got the lodging for you.

A former Soviet aircraft carrier under renovation in Tianjin is set to become China’s first ex-naval hotel in 2012…The future luxury hotel is part of Binhai Aircraft, an 80,000-square-meter military theme park opened in 2004 in east Tianjin. The government-supported park is built on and around a retired Kiev-class Soviet aircraft carrier, named Kiev (基辅号), which was sold to China in 1996.

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