The new flagship Rosewood hotel in Hong Kong
Hong Kong’s brand-new Rosewood Hotel is a triumph of taste and style, says Darius Sanai
It was the party to end all parties in Hong Kong last weekend, as the Cheng family, HK’s answer to London’s Grosvenors or New York’s Vanderbilts, opened their global flagship Rosewood hotel here.
Moving speeches, fabulous conversation, amazing design, O Toro from Japan, Hospices de Beaune Meursault from Burgundy, pata negra from Andalucia, and a feeling throughout that you are in a very swanky, perfectly curated version of a Soho House.
The hotel, the brainchild of Sonia Cheng, third generation scion of the family, was nearly a decade in the making and is one of the centrepieces of the Victoria Dockside development, Hong Kong’s answer to New York’s Hudson Yards, masterminded by her elder brother Adrian.
From left to right: Ms. Katherine Mei Hing, Dr. Hendry Cheng, Ms. Sonia Cheng and Dr. Adrian Cheng at the opening part of Rosewood Hong Kong
From left to right: Ms. Sonia Chen, Ms. Katherine Mei Hing and Ms. Pansy Ho attend the Rosewood Hong Kong opening party
Every detail is both exquisite and tasteful – the Rosewood Hong Kong is the polar opposite to those gold plated, taste free monoliths in the Gulf. All around, you feel that you are surrounded not just by expensive things, but by extremely thoughtfully chosen ones.
Our favourite bit? The Manor Club, on the 40th floor. Shelves are lined with gorgeous art books, there was an extremely professional game of snooker going on in one room, and a door behind the bar opens up to the most stunning view of Hong Kong, and the Peak behind, of any hotel.
Worth visiting now, and even more so when the Victoria Dockside finishes in all its cultural glory later this year.
Book your stay: rosewoodhotels.com/en/hong-kong
