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China’s First Jacuzzi Martini Bar
Ah, what price the gratuitous worship of Mammon ? To what extent does total bourgeoisie become kitsch ? To how much trouble and expense do I wish to see bikini clad, potentially naked Chinese girls cavorting in a jacuzzi in a bar, and to what extent would the world like me to inflict my impressive physique upon it in the spirit of reciprocation ?
The answer to the last question is clearly “Not” as anyone unfortunate enough to have noticed the photo of me dancing one night at Senses in Shanghai clad only in boxer shorts that got plastered all over China based websites a couple of years back will testify. But bikini clad girls cavorting amidst bubbles while I sip a Gibson amongst the cool bright lights 32 stories above the Huangpu ? Well, if asking Hemingway I suspect he’d be up for it, so I won’t disagree. Wodehouse would have Jeeves extricating Bertie Wooster from the society damage such playfulness might bring (although Wooster would wear his pyjamas), whereas Serge Gainsbourg would write an erotic French, heavy breathingly sexy film score about it and cast his 13 year old daughter half naked as the siren. Joe Studwell, meanwhile, would pontificate that this denotes capitalist corruption in a still communist society, Woody Allen would dictate Freud amongst the swirling waters while trying to chat up the 20 year old waitresses, and Evelyn Waugh would sit, sullenly in the corner with a Stengher Shifter (Pink Gin) noting how hideous all the expats were. For sure, a Jacuzzi in a bar would be a source of some debate, disagreement, and idle chatter.
Well, you have the chance to argue the point. For the second floor of the craftily titled “Vue Bar” on the 32nd floor of the newly opened Hyatt in Shanghai has just such a thing. But more of that later. The Hyatt, sited just behind the Russian Consulate and the old Richards Hotel, across the street from Shanghai Mansions, has just opened. Billing itself, slightly too far to be credible as “Hyatt On The Bund” (it’s really “Hyatt on Suzhou Creek” it does however add a much needed air of long lost glamour to the area. The Richards Hotel, close by, and now known as the Pujiang Hotel, or even more confusingly as the New Astor, was the hotel to stay at in Shanghai from 1846 to the opening of the Peace Hotel on the Bund itself, and has now been restored. That’s the place to eat – classic Shanghai cuisine and at a fraction of the Hyatts prices – an excellent chilli fried duck, braised lettuce and broccoli with garlic, washed down with a vintage bottle of 2001 Huangjui, came to RMB198 for two. Other illustrious guests who frequented the Richards included Einstein, Chaplin and Roosevelt, so you’re in good company, and it’s two minutes walk away from the Hyatt.
But up above, it’s the Hyatts Vue Bar that takes the breath away. Possibly the only vantage point to simultaneously take in views of both the Bund and Pudongs space rocket styled skyscrapers, the décor is modern, somewhat minimalistic in a Vogue stylish lounge bar kind of way. It opened two weeks ago, and a good test of a bar is to see how they make a classic cocktail. We chose Carperinia’s, and they were as they should be, and made properly with the right ingredients. You need imported Cachaca for that, so someones been paying attention to detail and training the bar staff well. Venturing upstairs, one finds the Jacuzzi, set amongst an open air setting and just waiting for some glamour. It’ll be a hit in the summer, but at chilly December, it looked a bit lost. Watch the media have product launches there and either applaud, or groan slightly as wet bikini clad young women become the must have date in Shanghai during summer 2008.
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censorship
how come comments keep getting deleted ?
Hey Chris Just lock the blog
Hey Chris
Just lock the blog if you don't want any comments. That should save you the bother of having to delete.
Jacuzzi Censorship
Ernie moderates, so if anything was posted that was deemed inappropriate, or rude he'll take it down. So use common sense. But actually we want your comments. Would a jacuzzi in a bar improve the cocktails? Over to you....
How great is Ernie? Even
How great is Ernie? Even when slumming it in a bit backpack hostel and drinking cheap beer on a mission, he still finds time to swoop in and perform his moderator functions on behlf of his superiors. This has all the makings of an old hymn packed with meaningful words on the power of one.
Nothing surprises me..
here, Shanghai has always been the sleaze capitol of China, before it was really re-integrated back into the fold, think of the 20's, Suzy Wongs etc, then of course there's the other kind of sleaze, and why the head of the Party lost his in the recent reshuffle, or night of the long chopsticks, and now we have this, remember the Chinese people have been waiting for 50 years to throw off the yoke of communism so that they can get back to doing what is natural to humans, greed, debauchery and conspicuous consumption.
Other than that I have no strong feelings wither way.
Champagne & Jacuzzi Bubbles
Naturally chaps, being rotters and extraordinarily wealthy expats, clearly the thing to do is fill the jacuzzi with Bollinger and let rip.
Heh heh heh
Fidel
Jacuzzi Glass
Then we could drink the jacuzzi ! LOL. Waiter, can I have another please ? Just fill 'er up !
pip pip tallyho
I say capital old boy i find lemon gives me wind something awful but victoria sponge would be most sufficiant pip pip tally ho and what not! ...
pompous git
My boss is a pompous windbag. A person who has a big mouth, and is prone to unfounded bragging, and has an overly inflated sense of self-importance. A sound dunking in a champagne spa could be just what the doctor ordered.
Double Plus Ungood
You know me as Ernie, humble blogger. I am also head of the Department of Truth for Dezsoc. When my speakwrite hands me a strip of paper with thoughtcrime/or duckspeak, I must eliminate it fullwise by disposing of it in the memoryhole. Comments are good. Diaz is ungood. Diaz is the enemy.References to Diaz or thoughtcrimes against Dezsoc leaders are doubleplusungood. Doublethink? More like crimestop.I need my chocorats like the next comrade.
Last month The Sunday Times
Last month The Sunday Times Travel listed Caesars Pocono Resorts Champagne Tower rooms as one of the "25 most seductive places in the world."
That's right, New Yorkers are only a 90 minute drive from a four-level suite featuring a 7-foot tall champagne glass whirlpool bath for two. This suite also features a Bose sounds system, a couple of fireplaces, and a heated, heart shaped pool.
So what do the British think of this over-the-top romantic suite?
I simply cannot believe--without photographic evidence, anyway--that even the Americans could (or would) create such a ridiculous Jacuzzi.
See photographic evidence. Oh, and please never doubt our ability as a nation to over kitsch.
http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2005/9/19/153415/657/hotels/Seven_Foot...
What a great evening. We
What a great evening. We celebrated our anniversary last night with Indian food, a bottle of champagne. After watching a movie (Gothika), we relaxed in the Jacuzzi for a bit. I was a limp noodle by the time we were done.
What a great night!
limp noodle
Hey guys....cant beleive this has happened! I just got done with a cycle of tren/test p/ winny......100mg eod tren, 100 mg ed prop, and 50mg ed winny.....for 8 weeks....winny last five....i got off and everything was fine started my clomid...than i got a whole slew of pimples on my face and i new i had a hot date in 3 days...so i didnt take any for three days....
I got with this chcik...was very attracted to her....long story short
Now do you guys think this is from not taking clomid for 3 days or somethin else? Anyways ive been off for 3 weeks and im gettin back on so i can show this chick what it is all about!!!!!I WONT ever let that happen again...how embarrasing!
Limp Noodle, Amateur Pharmacologist
Sounds like limp noodle should stop getting his meds at the farmer's market, dial down the thorazine, and pick up a professionally translated "Guide to Prescription Medicines". That and a long soak in a champagne jacuzzi. And a fistful of viagra [vi/test ag/gary].
when all is said and done
Why is it that 99% of the men, whether they be Chinese or otherwise, living in China, behave like total eunuched faggots?
Other than that I have no strong feelings either way.
Eunuchs have a long history in China
But you probably wouldn't want to meet one in a jacuzzi. Champagne filled or otherwise.
Oh dear waiter. Bring me
Oh dear waiter. Bring me more glasses and an olive for my eunuch friend squatting next to me here.
Certainly Sir
And would anyone like some nuts?
badum-bum
Badum-bum
It would not be Christmas at our house without John Denver and the Muppets adding their own special brand of mayhem and melody to the air. Since we owned this on vinyl when I was a kid, I have never known "The 12 Days of Christmas" without Miss Piggy's zealous "Badum-bum-bum!" and I can't imagine the song without it.
Whats the point of this
Whats the point of this article, are there naked chicks in the Jacuzzi or what?
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