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EAST Hotel: stylish, luxurious business hotel in Hongkong

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If you are going to Hongkong on business (or even perhaps for pleasure), check out the EAST Hotel on Taikoo Place, one of the city’s best designed hotels catering to business travelers, conveniently located at Taikoo Place where many Fortune 500 companies, advertising and financial firms have their headquarters. EAST calls itself a “lifestyle business [...]

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March 26th, 2011 | Posted in Hotels | Read More »

The Luxe Manor Hongkong: A boutique hotel so richly eclectic it appears surreal

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The Luxe Manor in Hong Kong describes itself as a mystical emporium of serene comfort.  Upon closer inspection this is a perfect way to describe its rich eclectic mix of Oriental and European décor with post-modern sensibilities.  Regardless whether you decide to stay in one of their deluxe rooms or one of their six uniquely [...]

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September 29th, 2010 | Posted in Hotels | Read More »

The Mira Hotel: futuristic glamour in Hongkong

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If you like staying in places that make bold design statements, you will feel at home at the Mira Hotel in Hongkong. Opulent, stunning, futuristic retro-chic are some of the words people have used to describe the hotel’s interiors, which were designed by Charles Allem. But don’t worry: the rooms are cozy and livable, with [...]

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September 21st, 2010 | Posted in Hotels | Read More »

Upper House Hotel in Hong Kong brings understated luxury and elegance

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While other luxury hotel chains go for the Big Bang Glitzy look, which tends to attract an equally  gaudy clientele to match, the Swire Hotels has decided to go in the opposite direction with Upper House, its latest hotel in Hong Kong. Elegant and understated, the hotel will be appreciated by travelers who are a [...]

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January 19th, 2010 | Posted in Hotels | Read More »

Sponsored Post: Boutique Bites – A Selection of Great Boutique Hotels for Street Food

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Boutique hotels provide the perfect base to sample some of the world’s most exciting street food. Intimate and refined, what they lack in roof-top gymnasiums and golf simulators, they make up for with stylish interiors and, invariably, great city-centre locations. These urban retreats are right in the heart of the action, in the vast majority [...]

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January 1st, 2010 | Posted in Hotels | Read More »

Mapplr’s favorite hotels in Hong Kong

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I have just posted my favorite restaurants in Hong Kong, so I decided to post my favorite hotels in the city. Hongkong is fabulous city for so many reasons: eating out, shopping, stunning views of the hills and the water. And it is easily the most intense urban experience on earth! Hong Kong isn’t just [...]

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July 17th, 2008 | Posted in Hotels | Read More »

Mapplr's favorite restaurants in Hong Kong

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I love Hong Kong. It’s the ultimate urban experience: massive high-rise apartments, busy crowded markets selling pungent Chinese herbs and serpents, fabulous boutiques just doors away from obviously fake luxury goods vendor stalls. Yet, you can get away from it all by simply taking a boat to one of the islands around the harbor. Hong [...]

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July 7th, 2008 | Posted in Restaurants | Read More »