Hotel credit, Chinese wellness traditions and three Michelin star dining bring luck in the new lunar year.
2013-01-19 — /travelprnews.com/ — Experience the true traditions of Chinese New Year at the city’s most prestigious address, with newly refurbished guest rooms and suites at Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong. Enjoy three Michelin star dining and luxuriate in the award-winning Spa, with a complimentary lai seepacket of HKD 800 Hotel credit when staying two consecutive nights.
The year 2013 celebrates the Year of the Snake – a symbol of longevity and luck, love and happiness – and Hong Kong displays a truly traditional spectacle throughout the festive period. As local stores and neighbourhoods break, temples become crowded in worship and incense, the street markets become awash with colour and more attended than ever, the Kowloon peninsula prepares for an extravagant night parade as the city awaits the most impressive pyrotechnic display of the year.
Stay
As is the tradition in China at this important time of year, people give and receive money in lai see packets to bring one another good fortune. The Chinese New Year package at Four Seasons Hotel Hong offers a Hotel credit lai see that can be used in Lung King Heen to experience the Lunar New Year Menu, or in the Spa on a Chinese Wellness Ritual or simply against quiet celebratory drinks at the Blue Bar. The package requires a minimum two-night stay and starts from HKD 4600 (plus 10 percent) per room, per night and includes one lai see packet of HKD 800 hotel credit over the two-day period. The package is available from February 1 to 16, 2013 inclusive.
To welcome an even more prosperous new year, guests can enjoy the Stay Longer package, which includes luxurious accommodations in a Four Seasons Executive Suite, Harbour-View Suite or Deluxe Suite with access to the Executive Club throughout the stay, and the fourth night free when paying for three consecutive nights. Rates start from HKD 9800 (plus 10 percent) per suite per night, with the fourth night free. The package is available until February 28, 2013.
Spa
As Hong Kong prepares for the Year of the Snake, the Chinese Wellness Ritual available at the Spa at Four Seasons can help start anew for the coming year. The treatment is designed to incorporate traditional Chinese wellness elements with the action of “washing away,” which is thought to be of most importance before the new lunar year comes.
An exquisite Asian ritual begins with a Chinese tea ceremony to bring warmth to the body’s core. The treatment itself is an indulgence of traditional wellness ingredients blending rice, ginseng, jasmine, green tea and fennel butter. An invigorating body exfoliation precedes a milky rice poultice application followed by a steamy monsoon rain shower. This treatment concludes with a full-body massage revealing a renewed and revived sense of self. This two hour and 30 minute Spa ritual is priced at HKD 3,600 weekday and HKD 3,888 on weekends and public holidays, and is subject to 10 percent service charge. The treatment is available year-round.
Dine
Special Lunar New Year menus will be available at the Hotel’s Cantonese Michelin three-star restaurant Lung King Heen, which also offers its limited edition Lunar New Year puddings created by ChefChan Yan Tak and his team.
Lung King Heen’s Lunar New Year puddings are now available to order and will be ready for collection from January 28 to February 9, 2013. Along with a lavish Chinese New Year Hamper available at HKD 4688, the puddings include: organic sugar cane and coconut juice, osmanthus pudding with organic red beans and gold leaves, water chestnut pudding with red dates and lotus root, and taro pudding with air dried meat (each at HKD 288); and abalone turnip pudding with conpoy (HKD 358).
For room or Spa reservations, and pudding and hamper orders call (+852) 3196 8888.
Located at lucky number 8 Finance Street, staying, pampering or dining with Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong is sure to bring the Year of the Snake in with the very best of luck.
Kung Hei Fat Choi!
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- Celebrate the Year of the Snake This Chinese New Year at Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong