Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong in 1960 and 2013 - Stunning Images

Looking better than most 50-year-olds, the famous resort is looking returning with design and on its design after a half-century in Hong Kong. It was once the highest developing in Hong Kong, had a primary place by the possess and was the only resort in Japan with a shower in every visitor space. Half a millennium later, the 27-story Mandarin Asian, Hong Kong can no more declare those headings, but it’s still one of the area's best resorts as well as a choice of the Hong Kong sky line since 1963. To indicate its Fiftieth birthday, the Mandarin Asian, Hong Kong is stuffing the year with festivities of its elegant Sixties design, along with a picture display presenting the place as it was in 1963. The display (select pictures in the collection above) was released last 30 days at the Clippers Living room, the hotel’s cafe. Upcoming birthday actions consist of a 10-course supper at the resort's fabulous cafe, the Krug Room, with a selection by professional chief cook Uwe Opocensky re-creating dishes from the Sixties.

Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong - Luxury of 1963

These photos are taken in the year of 1960's. Yes, there really was a time when there was enough space in front of the Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong to moor a fleet of Rolls-Royces and its chauffeurs.

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Excellent Night view of Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong. Photos taken in Connaught Road in the year 1960s.

Rooftop pool

The rooftop swimming pool of Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong was eventually (regrettably) moved indoors.

The Captain's Bar

The famous stay songs bar that has been working since 1963. The chessboard display in the qualifications is still in the bar.

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Most Magnificent Floor - Raffles Dubai Uncovers Middle East's

Raffles Dubai put the most costly outfit on show last drop, and keep it to them to get the best of themselves in a issue of several weeks. This springtime Raffles is presenting what they contact the Center East's most magnificent ground - a 21,500 square-foot "space" that requires up most of the Fourteenth stage of the place. That's right, a personal ground with six bedrooms, a spa, beauty and locks salon three personal cooking areas and a theatre that chairs nine. Not satisfied, you snort? Excellent. How about accessibility via a personal lift, 24-hour examine in, a personal limo assistance and driver, personalized sheets, a personal chief cook, and a devoted butler? Audio good? Appears to be like another situation of Dubai being as flossy as they want to be. Don't hate!

"A lot of the place visitors journey with a big entourage and sometimes guide 50 percent the ground," a resort worker has said. "The Dubai Floor is ideal for this kind of visitor as they'll have a whole ground for themselves and comfort. This what creates it exclusive."

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Anantara Xishuangbanna Resort & Spa commenced to guests

In exquisite testament to Anantara’s brand focus on indigenous discovery in the world’s most hypnotic locales, Anantara Xishuangbanna Resort & Spa welcomes guests to the beauty of Xishuangbanna in China’s Yunnan Province. The resort proudly boasts the status of the first and only five star hotel and pool villa destination experience in China’s utopia.

Anantara Xishuangbanna Resort & Spa is located in the midst of this national scenic resort destination, an hour’s drive from Jinghong International Airport through unspoiled countryside, offering a hidden enclave of tropical majesty along a sweeping curve of the Luosuo River. The resort is set within lush gardens and water features, and comprises 80 Deluxe guest rooms, as well as 23 one, two and three bedroom Pool Villas. Similarly you can also book your popular hotels in Hanoi and make your living comfort.

Revealing intimate glimpses of China through a luxurious blend of contemporary and local culture, authentic influences are drawn from the textures, colours and flavours of the region to deliver a bewitching blend of Chinese accents, integrated with regional touches from Thailand, Burma and Cambodia. Moreover cultural aspects of the local tribes including the Dai, Jinuo and Hani people will feature not only in the resort’s design, but also in its culinary concepts.

The resorts indigenous guest experiences are enhanced with visits to the many ethnic tribes in the area such as a tea picking journey with China’s last minority group to be recognized - the Jinuo tribe.They will guide you through 1,800 year old tea plantations high in the misty mountains where you will pick tea the traditional way before heading back to roast the leaves as they have done for centuries.

The Hani tribe will welcome you into their home and sing traditional songs to you before sitting down to a home cooked meal or you can tour the local Dai tribe’s village close to the resort. Xishuangbanna opens a window to a unique blend of nature, history and culture including multifarious folklore. Located in the southern extension of the Hengduan Mountains, where the lesser known Luosuo River later becomes the mighty Mekong, Xishuangbanna has over ninety-five percent of its territory occupied by mountainous and hilly areas, creating ample opportunities for leisure activities including mountain hiking, bird and wildlife spotting, and boat trips along the Luosuo River, all made even more attractive by an average temperature of 18 – 22 degrees Celsius.

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Nobu Hotel Has been Opened in Las Vegas on Feb. 4 at $269 Per Night

The other week our little sibling, VegasChatter noted the Nobu Hotel Las Vegas at Caesars Palace as one of the 10 Game-Changing Openings of 2013. After missing a hopeful December opening date, the first-ever hotel from master sushi chef Nobu Matsuhisa is still set to open sometime in February. But exactly when in February? We headed over to the Nobu Hotels website to find out.

The site actually redirects you to the Caesars website where it's currently showing rooms open on February 4 for $269 a night. That's for a Nobu Deluxe King, the starting room category, and the pricing is pretty similar to what VegasChatter reported back in September. The hotel is completely sold-out for its opening weekend but after that rooms dip down to $249 a night. Most weekends through March are about $299 a night. Planning on splitting the room with friends? A deluxe room with two queen beds goes for $289 while luxury king rooms are $299 a night weekdays.

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Salamander Resort & Spa Middleburg, Virginia - Grand Opening at August 2013

Salamander Hotels & Resorts is a privately owned and operated company based in Middleburg, VA, just outside Washington, D.C. Founded by entrepreneur Sheila C. Johnson in 2005, the company has a portfolio that features the Grand Golf Resorts of Florida, a collection of three stellar golf resorts including the recently renovated Innisbrook Resort in Tampa Bay, Reunion Resortin Orlando and the oceanfront Hammock Beach Resort in Palm Coast; Grand Resorts at Cap Cana, a collection of luxurious properties in the Dominican Republic including the oceanfront Sanctuary Cap Cana, the new marina-inspired Fishing Lodge Cap Cana, and the future Ocean Club Cap Cana; the Forbes Five-Star- and AAA Five Diamond-rated Woodlands Inn near Charleston, SC; and the eagerly anticipated Salamander Resort & Spa in Middleburg, a 340-acre equestrian-themed, ultra-luxury resort located near Washington, D.C. opening in 2013.

The internal makeup of the state-of-the-art Salamander Resort and Spa is beginning to take shape with just less than eight months remaining before its highly anticipated grand opening. As part of its holiday celebration Salamander Hotels and Resorts Owner Sheila Johnson and her team gave tours of the 340-acre site in Middleburg, which will be home to the resort, followed by a party at Johnson’s home. The design of the 168-room resort is intended to replicate a grand home built 100 years ago, with many of the details resembling her own home. The resort will contain a lavish 23,000-square-foot spa, a full-service equestrian center with a 22-stall stable, 12,000 square feet of conference space and a 5,000-square-foot grand ballroom.

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Grand opening slated for new Mackinac Island hotel in 2013

Operators of a new Mackinac Island hotel are expected to soon begin accepting online room reservations. MLive.com reports that the 3-story, 36-room Bicycle Street Inn & Suites is slated to open in May in the historic downtown of the popular tourist destination. It replaces the demolished 120-year-old McNally Cottage bed and breakfast. Bicycle Street Inn & Suites is the island's first hotel development since the Main Street Inn and Suites was built about a decade ago.

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Bicycle Street Inn & Suites marketing manager Mark Alexander says Mackinac Island's popularity remains strong and that the island is "going to get a million visitors a year no matter what." The island, located in Lake Huron between Michigan's Upper and Lower peninsulas, is dominated by the 125-year old, 385-room Grand Hotel.

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Mandarin Oriental Nearly Ready For Its Shanghai Entry

Here's one to bookmark for those of you who plan on making any stops in China this spring: a well-known international luxury brand is planning to open a 362-room hotel in Shanghai, right on the Huangpu River. But don't get this confused with that other luxury brand, Four Seasons, which recently opened up right around the same spot. (It's not Bulgari, either; that one won't be opening until 2015)

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No, the one we're talking about is actually Mandarin Oriental Shanghai, whose opening is suddenly right around the corner. Set to debut in March, MO Shanghai will be a very handsome addition to the Pudong scene.

In amenities alone, the hotel will offer a 13-suite spa with a boutique and signature MO products, a 25m pool, a 500-seat ballroom, a swanky Club Lounge and six restaurants and bars, including a Mandarin cake shop.

As for the rooms, everything seems pretty much on par for MO's love of Asian-inspired decor (then again, this is Shanghai) and rich textures. Hence the beige carpet with black linear motifs, the black curved leather armchair, the peacock-inspired bed spread, the beige patterned headboard, the black marble counters, the plasma TVs sunken into the walls....the list goes on.

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Westin Cape Coral Commences In South West Florida

The Westin opened its first full-service property in southwest Florida last week in Cape Coral at Marina Village, located 18 miles from Southwest Florida International Airport and overlooking the Gulf of Mexico, the Caloosahatchee River and San Carlos Bay.

Why come here? Well, Cape Coral is called the "Waterfront Wonderland" as it has more miles of canals than any other city in the world (400 miles of navigable waterways), so the 263-room Westin (previously known as The Resort at MarinaVillage) capitalizes on the location. The hotel is ensconced in the waterfront community of Tarpon Point, and, as a result, boating, fishing, and marine activities are big draws here.

While we love us some pool time, the hotel is close to Sanibel Island, Captiva Island, and Fort Myers Beach, which screams "day trip" to us. You can expect all the usual suspects from Westin’s "Heavenly" line, including the bed, bath, shower, and robes, along with the SuperFoods menu to help you make a few good choices while vegging out on the Gulf of Mexico.

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Shangri-La Opens hotel in Chinese city of Yangzhou

Luxury hotel group Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts has opened a new hotel in Yangzhou in the Jiangsu province of China. The Shangri-La Hotel, Yangzhou is the 35th property of the Hon-Kong-based group in mainland China and the first international five-star hotel in the city.

The hotel is located in the New Western District of Yangzhou, overlooking the Mingyue Lake and situated within a classic Chinese garden featuring pavilions, pagodas and koi ponds. Situated near the conference and exhibition center, the hotel itself has eight function rooms, a VIP greeting room and a 1,485m² grand ballroom, which can be divided into three separate ballrooms.

The 369 rooms in the hotel include the Horizon Club floor accommodations and private lounge; amenities offered include a health club with a 25m indoor swimming pool, a gym, tennis court and massage treatment rooms. Cafe Xiu at the hotel serves international cuisines at five interactive cooking stations, while the Shang Palace offers a Cantonese and traditional Huaiyang menu.

The group has opened two hotels in China earlier this year. Shangri-La Hotel in Changzhou was opened in October under an agreement with Qiaoyu Group, while the 337-room Shangri-La Hotel, Haikou on Hainan Island opened in November. Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts has an inventory of 32,000 rooms in 77 hotels managed under the Shangri-La, Kerry and Traders brands; it has projects in mainland China, India, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Qatar, Sri-Lanka, Turkey and the UK in pipeline.

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Australia’s main Five-Star Brand - Accor’s Pullman Hotel

Accor’s Pullman Hotels brand officially became Australia’s largest five-star hotel brand following the re-branding of Sea Temple Resort & Spa Port Douglas. It follows the re-branding to Pullman of Sea Temple Resort & Spa Palm Cove earlier this week. They join two Pullman hotels in Cairns (Reef Casino and the former Sebel) to give the Pullman brand a prominent position in Tropical North Queensland’s hotel and tourism industry.

The two new additions bring the Pullman network to 10 in Australia, making it officially Australia’s largest five-star hotel brand -- achieved just four years after Pullman debuted in Australia. Pullman overtook Hilton -- which had been operating in Australia for 38 years -- as the country’s largest upscale brand. The new Pullmans join a global network of over 70 hotels, which is expected to grow to 150 hotels and resorts by 2015.

The latest two re-brandings highlight that Pullman’s resort arm is set to grow as fast as the brand’s city network. The two Far North Queensland Pullman resorts join Pullman Bunker Bay in Western Australia’s Margaret River region, and Pullmans in other major resort locations such as Bali, Phuket, Pattaya, Marrakech and Cannes.

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The rebranding of Sea Temple Palm Cove and Port Douglas to Pullman Palm Cove Sea Temple Resort & Spa and Pullman Port Douglas Sea Temple Resort & Spa heralds a time when the brand in the Asia Pacific region has more properties slated to take on Pullman resort branding in the coming months. Both of the Pullman Sea Temple resorts have Mii Spa day spas, numerous dining options and signature lagoon-style pools.

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Radisson Blu Beach Resort & Spa, Sochi Opened On Next Winter

The 508-room Radisson Blu Beach Resort & Spa, Sochi will open in the fourth quarter of 2013. It will have the largest upscale spa and leisure facility in the Russian Federation with a 2,000-square-meter spa, 2,400 square meters of outdoor pool surfaces, and direct access to a 450-meter stretch of beachfront.

“This signing brings our portfolio of rooms in operation and under development in and around Sochi to 2,700, and further strengthens our leading position on the Russian market,” said Kurt Ritter, president and CEO of Rezidor. The group was one of the first international hotel operators to arrive in Russia and the first to open a full-service branch office in Moscow. Today, Rezidor is the number one in Russia/CIS and Baltics. In Russia alone, the company’s total portfolio comprises 41 hotels with 11,500 rooms in operation and under development.

The Radisson Blu Beach Resort & Spa will be situated on the Black Sea coast. It will also be located in the vicinity of the Caucasus Mountains, easily accessible with the modern high-speed railway. In addition, the extravagant spa services combined with the spacious conferencing facilities are designed to attract visitors all.

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Art Series Hotels Has Introduced World's Latest Checkout

Essentially guests don't have to check out of their room until someone checks in. We think hotels keeping the rooms vacant are a bit of a waste. If people are not using them, why not let guests stay longer - even if it's a few days! Naked have developed a genuine product innovation we're extremely excited by. We're rolling it out over summer - and then we'll see how we go, with the aim to introduce the product during quiet times of the year.

Adam Ferrier, founder of Naked Communications, which has made a series of adverts for the new project, said: "Having to check out by 11.00am is not very cool, especially if no one else needs the room. We've worked with Art Series to rejig the whole thing - and we are really excited to announce the Overstay Checkout. The hotel in effect is giving away something of value to the consumer - late check outs and free overnight stays, whilst at the same time it doesn't cost the hotel anything as its all unsold inventory." The Overstay Checkout operates between December 16th to January 13th, and is open to anyone staying at the hotel. The Art Series Hotel Group has created three boutique hotels in Melbourne in less than a year.

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French Investor Construct a Luxury Boutique Resort in Sri Lanka

The location, in Sri Lanka's Eastern Province was a war zone until 2009. The Sri Lankan Board of Investment said: "It reflects the peaceful situation in the country as well as the growing confidence on the part of the investor community to start hotel projects close to the former conflict areas. Tourism is one of the key economic sectors that Sri Lanka is targeting, since it provides many opportunities for investor in hotels and other tourism related activities." The property is expected to open for business in July 2014.

The boutique hotel will be named Karpaha Kalkudah, and will consist of 30 villas and a private plunge pool set among 300 coconut, kohomba and palmyra trees. It will also have 200 metros of private beach.

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Is any innovative in central Vietnam?

Almost 20 years after Banyan Tree conceptualized its flagship Phuket property in an ecologically desolate former tin mine, the pioneering eco-luxe brand launches its first Beautiful Vietnam resort along with three-kilometer beach in Lăng Cô Bay - a holiday spot historically favored by Vietnamese royalty. Banyan Tree Lang Co has 17 beach villas, 32 lagoon villas and 229 condominiums all inspired by feudal-era architecture, plus a lagoon pool, an Angsana spa and an 18-hole championship golf course, and marine and conservation centers, all backed by rugged mountains with views over Vietnam's East Sea. It is close to central Vietnamese highlights such as the My Son Champa ruins, the world's largest known cave passage, Hang Son Dòng, and the ancient trading town of Hoi An.

In Hoi An itself, the culinary capital of the central coast, check out Q Bar Hoi An for sake-vodka cocktails in one of the city's oldest surviving Chinese shop houses.

And just north in Da Nang, Michel Roux's La Maison 1988 opens in an 18th-century mansion in December. Also in the town is the French-run steak-and-lobster joint O De V in a colonial villa near the Han River, for haute dining. And don't miss the warm chocolate fondant with salted caramel ice cream at new Da Nang chocolatier Pheva

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