Hong Kong Hotels in 1907
Posted: March 12th, 2012 | 1 Comment »Talking of Suzie Wong in Hong Kong let’s go back a little further – to 1907 in fact and below some ads for hotels from the South China Morning Post and The China Mail in that year.Well done the Connaught Hotel and manager Mr Moses for being HIGH-CLASS and under strictly American management (was this supposed to impress in a “strictly” British colony!!). Ice House Street of course remains in Central but the buildings that would have housed the Carlton House Hotels are long gone I’m afraid. I have to say Kowloon-side sounds more fun with billiards and bowling and who can resist a “modern management”.
An alternative might have been, “It might be American, but it’s the best we can do.”