Metropole Hotel, Shanghai. Siting in the lobby bar, drinking a G+T waiting for the rain and lightning to stop so I can walk a few blocks to try some restaurant that could possibly be not worse than the hotel food. This place has a nice veneer, all renovated 30's deco, albeit soviet/english corpo-fascist style. They have a guy standing at the front entrance 24/7 to open the door next to the revolving door, just so you have the option of not using the revolving door. I've used revolving doors before, there's really nothing to it.
The hotel provides the amenities you would expect; room service, information, maps, travel agent, beauty salon, but they act as if I were the first person to ask for any of it.
You want to have a gin and tonic in the lobby bar? (it's on the menu) They have a small confab to discuss the ramifications. Yes it's possible! Please wait while we look up the recipe. I guess the recipe calls for a merischino cherry floating on top.
It is pitch black outside, torrential rain with flashes and shuddering cracks of lighning at four in the afternoon.
2 comments:
sounds all very mysterious. how's the G&T?
The G+T was gin and tonic like they have never been mixed together in such a sublime and harmonious sensory lotus-like way. And the cherry was an optical treat.
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