The Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong is a five-star hotel on Connaught Road Central in Central, Hong Kong, owned and managed by Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group.
[4] On August 24, 1962, the South China Morning Post reported that the unfinished hotel's name had been changed to The Mandarin, because "a nationwide survey of the United States seeking American reaction to the hotel name shows that the American public, who comprised the majority of this Colony’s tourists, preferred the exotic-sounding Mandarin.
It was the first hotel in Hong Kong to have direct dial phones and the first in Asia to include a bath in every guestroom.
[4] In 2003, the hotel was the site of the suicide of actor and singer Leslie Cheung, who jumped from the 24th storey of the building.
[8] The hotel contains 501 guestrooms, 67 of which are suites, overlooking Victoria Harbour.