{"id":98881177,"date":"2011-03-29T12:21:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T12:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/hong-kong-opens-world-s-highest-hotel\/"},"modified":"2018-10-12T05:31:29","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T09:31:29","slug":"hong-kong-opens-world-s-highest-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/hong-kong-opens-world-s-highest-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong Opens World\u2019s Highest Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s highest hotel opened its doors Tuesday in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong is housed inside of the International Commerce Center, the city\u2019s tallest skyscraper which overlooks the Victoria Harbor.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Amenities at the 312-room hotel include the highest bar in the world, a top floor pool with an enormous ceiling mounted LCD TV, and one of the largest ballrooms in the city.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hotel President and CEO Herve Humler could not pass up the opportunity to make a great pun. &#8220;We are taking luxury to new heights in every sense,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, even at 1,600 feet, it appears as if the Ritz-Carlton\u2019s claim to fame may be somewhat fleeting. The hotel will likely lose its title as world\u2019s highest in 2014 with the opening of the J-Hotel in mainland China\u2019s Shanghai Tower.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/travel\/news-and-advice\/worlds-highest-hotel-opens-in-hong-kong-2256388.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Independent <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s highest hotel opened its doors Tuesday in Hong Kong. &nbsp; The Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong is housed inside of the International Commerce Center, the city\u2019s tallest skyscraper which overlooks the Victoria Harbor. &nbsp; Amenities at the 312-room hotel include the highest bar in the world, a top floor pool with an enormous ceiling mounted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98881177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98881177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98897383,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881177\/revisions\/98897383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98881177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98881177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98881177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}