City hoppers used to view city hotels as just a place to retire at for the night after exploring the destination. But this attitude is set to change with more hotels offering better onsite facilities, more enticing food and beverage options or simply, more luxurious rooms. With all these reasons, it would be hard not to stay in. Below, a new crop of hotels for your Little Black Book.
The Murray Hong Kong
Once a building for government offices in Hong Kong in the 1960s, The Murray has been transformed into the city’s biggest hotel opening this year. Foster+Partners who were behind Singapore’s Capella resort in Sentosa have preserved the original distinctive recessed windows and impressive archways designed by architect Ron Phillips.
Seventy five per cent of the velvet rooms are larger than 50sqm, with panoramas of Hong Kong Park and Victoria Harbour. But the pièce de résistance is the egg-shaped free-standing bath.
The Murray, Hong Kong is at 22 Cotton Tree Drive Central, Hong Kong, T: +852-3141-8888.
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