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Hyatt Regency To Return to Hong Kong With Hugo's Restaurant Still in Place

Where: Hanoi Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, China

Big fanfare over in Hong Kong last week ... after closing the original Hyatt Regency Hong Kong at the beginning of 2006, Hyatt's now signed a deal with the New World Development Co to manage the new Hyatt Regency Hong Kong. It's going to be a brand new skyscraper, a multi-use complex in the Tsim Sha Tsui district of Kowloon.

The old Hyatt Regency ran for over 35 years, and some of its most well-known features will make a comeback in the new version. That includes the famous Hugo's restaurant with some of the original decor (it seems that Hugo was some guy covered in armor, and he'll be returning to the new site too), as well as the Chinese Restaurant and the Chin Chin Bar.

Some parts of the new Hyatt Regency will be more modern than the old one, however. The 384 rooms will all include a flat-screen TV, a personal safe with a built-in laptop charger, wireless and wired broadband internet access and a private bar. It looks like cousin the Grand Hyatt Hong Kong doesn't charge for internet access, so fingers crossed that the Hyatt Regency Hong Kong won't either.

Scheduled opening is in 2009, so you have a while to wait before you can check out the strangely armored Hugo again, or get the expected beautiful views over Victoria Harbour and the Kowloon Peninsula.

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