‘Luxury pig-view hotel room’: China suite offers US$1,230 a night stay with ‘panda pigs’, year’s supply of famous ham and hog to take home

Tourists in China are paying 8,888 yuan (US$1,230) for a hotel room with a view into the lives of some of the country’s rarest and most highly-valued pigs, traditional source of China’s world famous Jinhua ham.

The first-floor room in a castle-shaped building at the theme park in Zhejiang province in eastern China includes a sealed window looking on to the ground floor piggery so that guests can look at – but not smell – the animals below.