Suite Dream

INTERCONTINENTAL HONG KONG

MAKING A SPLASH: The new presidential suite

For more than 20 years, suite 1600 at the InterContinental Hong Kong ( intercontinental.com ) was one of Asia's best-kept secrets. Landscaped terraces, a private solarium and a Jacuzzi with an eye-popping view of the Hong Kong skyline were some of the features that lured guests from movie star Jean-Claude Van Damme to former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. They, and anyone else lucky enough to have spent a night there, probably came away with the feeling that the two-bedroom facility was all but unimprovable.

Not true. After a $2.5 million makeover, 1600 has reopened as the hotel's...

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