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Mandarin Oriental

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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.

By Sebastian Vance · 26 min read

22 MAR 2026 hotels

Mandarin Oriental Tokyo: A Review of the Nihonbashi Penthouse Tier

Mandarin Oriental Tokyo occupies the top nine floors of the Nihonbashi Mitsui Tower, perched between the Imperial Palace gardens and the Tokyo Skytree. This is a long-form review of the property's penthouse tier — Deluxe through Mandarin and Presidential — with current 2026 rates, dining at Sense and the Michelin-starred Signature, the 9th-floor spa, the 37F club lounge, and where the property sits against Aman Tokyo, Four Seasons Otemachi, Park Hyatt, Conrad, and the imminent Bvlgari.

By Sebastian Vance · 23 min read

02 FEB 2026 hotels

Mandarin Oriental New York at Twenty-Two: A 2026 Review

Mandarin Oriental New York opened on the 35th-to-54th floors of the Time Warner Center (now Deutsche Bank Center) at Columbus Circle in 2003. After a quiet 2024 soft refresh of the public spaces and a partial room refurbishment cycle that ran through 2024-2025, we logged two stays in spring 2026 to see where the hotel sits against the Aman New York, Park Hyatt New York, The Mark, and the Carlyle in 2026.

By Mara Whitfield · 7 min read