Hong Kong Hotel Opens Fantasy Club to Atrract Customers
|IT’S dark, slinky, sultry and possibly
habit-forming. Salon de Ning in The Peninsula Hong Kong hotel opened in
February and is the latest and most accomplished fantasy club-themed
cocktail bar to hit the area.
This is the second Salon de Ning for the Peninsula Hotels group; the first opened at the group’s Manhattan property in 2008 and a third is scheduled for the Shanghai Peninsula later this year.
The concept behind the bar is the fictional Madame Ning, a socialite
who supposedly lived in Shanghai in the louche days of the 1930s.
Wealthy, eclectic, well-travelled and possibly a bit naughty, Madame Ning has assembled a treasure trove of art, artifacts and memorabilia, and you’re along for the ride.Located in the basement of the Peninsula, there’s a largish central
room with four themed, open-fronted rooms radiating from it, which
allows you to retreat into a mini fantasy world without cutting
yourself off from the main action.The African room sports a (fake) lion’s head and well-polished
leather riding boots, lion and zebra-print furnishings and a fabric
ceiling that suggests a tent. There’s also a boudoir with a ceiling
decorated with hats suspended in doughnuts of light. [The Australian]
You can view pictures of the hotel at its official website. It looks like quite a nice place. By the way if you have never been to Hong Kong you should go, I love that place.