Posted by Bone at February 29th, 2008

A couple of nights ago I thought I’d be a poseur and have a cocktail over at the Peninsula hotels famed Phillipe Starck-designed bar/restaurant, Felix. It’s quite the experience, the bar has its own lifts serving it, which have a programme of lights running as you go up the 28 floors. Then you walk up the the mezzanine and order your cocktail from a surprisingly small list. You then try and keep a straight face when the bill is HK$126 including a 10% service charge (I would have thought that tipping would be optional in a bar). Then you take in one of the best views in the world (out over the bay towards HK Island) and realise that you don’t mind paying so much for what is an excellent cocktail. It is fairly ridiculous that they have venetian blinds over the windows though. And the bars a bit small.

The toilets are amazing though, you stand at one of the three urinals looking out through a floor-to-ceiling window at the rest of TST and Kowloon, it would be nice if the toilets looked at HK Island, but I guess that real estate is a bit valuable (hold up, maybe the ladies, whose toilets were the opposite door, get a better view?). Also, the sink is weird, and is operated by a man who then hands you a linen hand towel, I was going to tip him (something I hate in toilets), but it wasn’t possible, now that’s service!