Behind Schedule With Your Hotel? Do a Shangri-La And Hedge Your Bets
Here’s some skewed logic to start your week off. You’re a soon-to-be-open hotel, you’re not sure exactly how long it’s going to take for your paint to dry and your air con to get whirring, and you’re watching other new hotels around the globe getting called out for opening late. What’s the solution?
Well, if you’re Shangri-La, your solution is to hedge your bets. The bizarrely named Shangri-La China World Summit Wing in Beijing was originally slated to open "at the end of the year". And even now, despite Shangri-La just having appointed a GM, they’re not quite sure when it’ll be ready for us to bed down, announcing this weekend that it’ll open "at the end of 2009 or early 2010."
Message to Shangri-La: it’s already the end of 2009, so you should probably have a date in mind by now. You should also probably update your website, which currently reads "Opening Fourth Quarter 2009". And if you really want us to believe that you know what you’re doing, and if the opening really was imminent, you’d be taking reservations by now. Which you’re not.
It has to be said - when it finally gets there, it’ll be on top of the new China World Tower (the tall one in the middle of the picture), meaning the views of Beijing are going to be pretty sweet. Whether they’ll be winter, spring or summer views, your guess is as good as ours. Personally, we’re going to say April/May 2010.
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