There’s a pig theme park in China and people are paying $1,200 a night for a hotel room so they may see — but not smell — the piggery

• A hotel room at a pig theme park costs over $1,200 a night, per local media.
• The room features a large window overlooking numerous prized black-and-white “panda pigs.”
• Guests can get one of the prized pigs upon checkout. Each one can produce more than $830 worth of ham.

A theme park in China has gone viral for offering a hotel room overlooking a piggery.

The room, which costs 8,888 Chinese yuan, or $1,228, a night overlooks a pig farm in the”Panda Pig—Two-End Black Ranch” theme park in Jinhua, a city in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang, state news agency China News Service reported Thursday.

Insider could not independently verify the room rental price.

The room went viral after a Zhejiang media outlet, Tianmu News, posted a video clip on June 25 featuring the theme park on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok. The video has garnered over 160,000 likes and has been shared 250,000 times as of press time.

The clip shows a hotel room with a huge glass window overlooking the farm — so guests will not be able to view but not smell the facility — which was filled with numerous black-and-white colored pigs known as “panda pigs.” 

The theme park, which opened in August 2021, aims to promote this highly prized pig breed, which is used to make Jinhua dry-cured ham, a local specialty.

Although the room costs 8,888 yuan a night, it appears that most of the cost goes to paying for the prized black-and-white colored hogs — which, like the giant panda, is a rare breed, per China News Service.

Guests can get a panda pig or a year’s worth of express-couriered pork upon checkout. Each pig would be able to produce ham that costs more than 6,000 yuan — accounting for more than 70% of the price of the room each night, per China News Service.

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The theme park — which has a castle-like facade — includes a museum dedicated to the pig, a cafe, an amusement park, and a conference room, according to its website. Pigs here are treated “with respect” in an environment surrounded by flowers — so visitors will not be greeted by any foul odors, per the state news agency.