Back Where It All Began: The Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong

Where: 5 Connaught Rd, Central, Hong Kong

February 4, 2009 at 1:44 PM | by JetSetCD | 0 Comments

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.

Since this is the original property in the Mandarin Oriental chain and it just reopened in 2006 after extensive renovations, we just had to get all up in it.

The good news is that its restaurant, the Mandarin Grill, was redone by London's Terence Conran during that renovation, and has thus defies the decades with eternal class. Now for the bad news, and there is always bad news, but the Mandarin Oriental has Ferragamo and Chloe stores tucked into their back pocket.

They are completely unnecessary seeing as how all the luxury shopping you desire can be had on the same block, and that hotel space could be turned into a test kitchen or some other sort of new-fangled guest activity.

In any case, we're happy that there's at least one good old hotel in this city still retaining the classic image, just improved in comfort.

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