From October 1, 2014, Pikachu, Lucario and friends will debut in an interactive Pokémon luxury hotel experience exclusively designed for The Peninsula Tokyo by The Pokémon Company. Guests of all ages five and up may don a Pikachu hat and, equipped with a Poké Ball, set forth on an imaginative hotel-wide quest to seek out Pokémon characters.
Pokémon Hotel Adventure: The Power of Ten is offered in English and Japanese format. The exclusive collaboration between a hotel group and the Pokémon brand is a first in Tokyo.
Guests whose stay has been booked through the Pokémon Hotel Adventure: The Power of Ten room package take on the role of deputy investigator, seeking out clues from digital displays in ten locations within the hotel as they follow the trail of Pokémon characters reported missing.
The activity begins once registered guests have collected their set of adventure goods from the Front Desk. Reports published in the latest issue of The Pokémon Times suggest that some Pokémon characters have begun to disappear on the hotel premises. Lucario has been assigned to the case as special investigator along with a senior detective, but they need the player’s help to solve the mystery and locate the place where the characters are being magically transported.
Donning their souvenir Pikachu hat and equipped with a special Poké Ball, a magnifying glass, a copy of The Pokémon Times and a detective’s journal and map, players set out to find ten separate clue locations in order. At each, animated staff members representing the worldwide P Hotels – hotels where Pokémon meets the world and the world meets Pokémon – reveal bits of the story, deepening the mystery as players solve picture puzzles, match and sort shapes and letters, play Flash games and use the magnifying glass to find hidden codes.
The hunt for lost Pokémon characters concludes in a secret chamber deep within the hotel and specially designed for a climactic ending. Advanced optics technology creates an augmented experience of reality with a “magic mirror” that makes this adventure fun for all.
Upon completion of the experience, players will be rewarded with an original Pikachu plush doll wearing the trademark Peninsula Pageboy jacket and gold-braided white pillbox cap. Created exclusively for the Pokémon Hotel Adventure: The Power of Ten, this iconic doll is unavailable for purchase and promises to be a treasured keepsake of each player’s adventure.
