THE
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HOTEL
Architect:--
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Yu Seto, M. Sc. (Eng.)
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Carnarvon Road and Cornwall Avenue, and the site is roughly rectangular, being slightly shorter along its Corn- wall Avenue frontage. The entrance is right on the corner itself, beneath a wide canopy which runs around the entire frontage. Above it rises the graceful curved front of the building, with triple-window bays set between
Yet another first-class hotel opened modation and service of a very high parallel vertical lines of coloured tiles. in Kowloon during June the Astor standard. The services of a reputable From the ground floor lobby a cor- - an eleven-storey building with 150 and experienced travel agency have ridor with several shops leads off to rooms and suites. The policy of the been obtained to help visitors shop the left as one enters, while a hallway management is to attract the tourist and conduct tours around the scenic to the right leads past the lifts to the bar-and-cocktail lounge and Astor trade which Hongkong is so eager to and interesting places of the Colony. Grille. In the rear is the kitchen and encourage, and much thought has The Astor Hotel is centrally situat- boiler room for the central hot-water been given to providing both accom- ed in Tsimshatsui, at the corner of system. A separate extra-large stair-
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case leads directly to the first floor "Orchid Grove" restaurant and night-club with its
with its delightful, in- timate atmosphere, and the Hotel's residential section is accommodated on the second to tenth floors. Each floor has a suite, six double and ten single rooms. To ensure a maxi- mum of privacy, these have the bath- room and built-in closet arranged on either side of the entrance to form a sort of small lobby.
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