Bellboy now manages 15 of Wanda's hotels in China

Boris Blobel, the general manager of Wanda Reign on the Bund in Shanghai, said the biggest lesson he has learned in the course of his career is not to seek excuses after experiencing failure.

But such a scenario seems unlikely, considering how the ultra-luxury hotel he is tasked to run looks to have hit the ground running since it opened on June 18.

Built at a cost of more than 3 billion yuan ($452 million), Wanda Reign is the most expensive hotel ever built in China. Owned by China's richest man Wang Jianlin, the founder and chairman of Wanda Group, the hotel features 193 rooms that come with art-deco designs and rates starting from 2,970 yuan per night, the highest in the city.