Nothing on the box? Head for Hong Kong
December 4, 2006
I have stayed at the Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong a few times and made use of most of its facilities, from the services of the seamstress housekeeping to the podiatrist on the top floor. But one facility I barely use is the tv set, other than to catch the news before breakfast.
However, the hotel has just been refurbished and all the rooms now boast brand new internet-enabled tv’s with HD on-demand video, 10,000 radio stations and what they describe as "thousands of internet video streams". Are there thousands of internet video streams worth watching?
Reading the specs this seems like the hotel equivalent of bloatware. I suppose if there is even one guest with a hankering to surf YouTube or listen to Radio Clyde while he eats his breakfast looking out over Hong Kong harbour, they will justify this huge investment in new technology.
