Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong, the Fantastic diamond jubilee

Forbes Travel Guide 5-star, 2024

The Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong, or simply the Mandarin to locals, has been the synonym to the state of the art hospitality and the preferred backdrop for local socialites and global celebrities, precisely depicted in the 2015 best-seller satire fiction China Rich Girlfriend by Kwan, since its opening in the autumn of 1963. The legends behind the Oriental Bangkok merger in seventies never fail to fascinate, and the famed fan logo was coined in eighties together with these two grande-dames completely rebranded in 1985, exactly my natal year.