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Hong Kong's Landmark Mandarin Will Have a Swanky Easter Buffet

Where: 15 Queen's Road, The Landmark, Central, Hong Kong

Although any excuse for a fancy hotel buffet or high tea service will do, there is nothing like Easter for bringing out all the trimmings. Stop into any nice hotel in the United States this upcoming weekend and you're sure to catch the chefs covered in egg dye and the diners swathed in pastels. What about if you are abroad and have a hankering for some traditional Easter noshing, however? In Hong Kong, leave it up to the Landmark Mandarin Oriental to save the day with an Easter weekend lunch, brunch buffet, and afternoon tea buffet.

On April 11 and 12 only, the 648HKD ($89) lunch at the Landmark's Amber restaurant involves more than just five courses and wine pairings, but also includes something of a babysitting service for your kids: an Easter egg hunt and a side buffet for children (288HKD or $37 for those under 12).

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Landmark Mandarin Oriental is Hot for Haute Chocolate

Where: 15 Queen's Road, Central, Hong Kong

Any excuse to overindulge in chocolate works for us, but when you're talking the haute stuff from La Maison du Chocolat, then that's another matter entirely. How we wish we were still in Hong Kong right now, as throughout March, the creative director of the gourmet chocolate company will be teaming up with the Landmark Mandarin Oriental to offer several chocoholic-centric dinners and workshops at Amber, the hotel's restaurant.

While it's a little pricier than the the Ritz Carlton Battery Park's chocolate buffet, the $163 six-course dinner at The Landmark includes delectables such as foie gras and langoustine, of course paired with chocolate sauces or sides.

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Back Where It All Began: The Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong

Where: 5 Connaught Rd, Central, Hong Kong

We may be far flung out in Hong Kong this week, but even on the coast of the South China Sea we cannot escape the hotel love. For you see, in HK, much of the rich goings-on revolve around either the luxury malls or the opulent hotels, and most of the time those are one in the same. But walking through Central today, we caught a breath of fresh air in the Mandarin Oriental, which both stands on its own and steeps in its quiet history.

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Get Put to Sleep at the Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong

Where: 5 Connaught Road, Central, Hong Kong

Rest easy, insomniacs of the world, for the Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong has heard your prayers; they've just introduced a "Sleep Ritual" treatment to their extensive list of spa offerings, as they believe modern living detracts too much from healthy sleep patterns. We have to agree, especially since Hong Kong thrives on its round-the-clock vivacity.

Head to the Mandarin Oriental, where for $180 you will be soothed with 90 minutes of music, aromatherapy and massage in the hopes of providing a "sedating effect." The treatment even caters to your stomach with a massage to "release negative emotion" and these refreshments to keep you satisfied through a nap: "a soya milk drink (containing the sleep-inducing amino acid tryptophan), oats (to promote relaxing sleep) and nutmeg (an Ayurvedic remedy for restful sleep)."

The seriously restless have the option to add-on a "Shirodhara" treatment for $90. This is the typical ayurvedic move involving warm oil being poured onto the center of your forehead. We highly doubt we'd need this addition since simply being told to go to sleep at the Mandarin Oriental would be enough for us to zonk out. Still, it's comforting to know that someone out there aside from our mother is concerned about our sleep habits.

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Four Seasons Hong Kong, Meet Asia's Modern Art Scene

Where: 8 Finance Street, Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

The Four Seasons Hong Kong, a tower of curved metal filled with avant garde furniture with a Chinese flair, just got even hipper. The hotel will host Hong Kong’s first modern art auction next month, when Taipei’s only contemporary auction house, Ravenel, and a plethora of other Asian art dealers, besiege the city for the first major bizarre of its kind.

Art dealers say Hong Kong’s citizens have developed a voracious appetite for high-priced artwork, rivaling those in London and New York. The day the city-state starts to rival Paris in its number of art hotels, we’ll know it has really become the high-culture epicenter of the world.

It’s not that surprising, since the Hong Kong dollar is going the way of the Japanese yen and strengthening at a rapid—and frightening for the manufacturing sector—pace. The bright spot in this is for people buying goods within the country. Staying at a hotel with huge plasma TVs and infinity pools facing the harbor paired with purchasing an authentic portrait by Lu Hsien-Ming is a handy way for Hong Kong’s elite to shrug off those recession blues. Rates start around $231 a night.

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Hong Kong Hotel With HDTV

Where: 15 Queen's Rd., Central, Hong Kong

The 113 room Landmark Mandarin Oriental may not have killer views, however, the property tries to make up for its view lack-ed-ness with slick room design.

The corner rooms feature bathrooms where a tub that fits three serves as the centerpiece.  Waterfall shower, double sinks, and windows complete the bathroom design.

Despite the modern design, it is the high tech amenities that really get us going:

The entertainment system is too complex to grasp without effort but features surround sound, scenic picture choices to flash on the plasma screens, spa music on demand, HDTV, cables for you to link an IPOD, video recorder or other device to enjoy through the plasma TV and/or surround sound system. I plugged in my IPOD and it worked albeit after some time getting the settings right. There is high speed internet but to access the wireless net you must first log in on a wired connection (that is not written anywhere). Wireless covers the hotel.

HDTV.  Sweet.  More hotels should follow that trend.

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