28 MAR 2026 hotels
Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong: The Original, Sixty Years On
The Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong is the property the brand is named after — the 1963 Central tower that defined what an Asian luxury hotel could be. Sixty-three years on, after a 2024-2025 soft refurbishment and with the one-Michelin-star Cantonese Man Wah and the Maximal-Concepts-run Aubrey carrying the dining floor, we spent five nights in May 2026 across three room categories to assess whether the original still sets the standard.