Peninsula Hotel
| The Peninsula Hong Kong | |
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The Peninsula and the Peninsula Office Tower in 2008
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| General information | |
| Location |
Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui Hong Kong |
| Coordinates | 22°17′43.05″N 114°10′17.51″E / 22.2952917°N 114.1715306°E |
| Opening | December 1928 |
| Owner | Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels |
| Management | Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels |
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| Number of rooms | 300 |
| Number of restaurants | 8 |
| Website | |
| The Peninsula Hong Kong official website | |
The Peninsula Hong Kong (simplified Chinese: 香港半岛酒店; traditional Chinese: 香港半島酒店; Jyutping: pei5 gong2 bun3 dou2 zau2 dim3), located in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong, is the flagship property of The Peninsula Hotels group, which is part of the Hong Kong And Shanghai Hotels Group, opened in 1928, and the first to be branded under The Peninsula brand expanded in 1994, the hotel combines colonial and modern elements, and is notable for its large fleet of Rolls-Royces painted the distinctive "Peninsula green".
Founded by members of the Kadoorie family The Peninsula was built with the idea that it would be "the finest hotel east of Suez". Despite promising to open in 1924, In December 1928 the hotel opened in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong, located at junction of Nathan Road and Salisbury Road and directly opposite the quays where ocean liner passengers disembarked. Kowloon was also the last stop on the trans-Siberian rail link that brought travellers from Europe.
On 25 December 1941, at the end of the Battle of Hong Kong, British colonial officials led by the Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Mark Aitchison Young, surrendered in person at the Japanese headquarters on the third floor of The Peninsula. The Governor was confined for two months in one of the hotel suites before he was shipped to a prison in Shanghai. The resort was then renamed "Tōa Hotel" (東亜ホテル "East Asia Hotel"?), and the rooms were reserved for Japanese officers and high-ranking dignitaries, while Hong Kong sank into misery and destitution. In his book God Is My Co-Pilot, Colonel Robert Lee Scott, Jr., USAAF, commander of the 23d Fighter Group, China Air Task Force, described in detail an aerial raid he led on the Japanese shipping anchored in Hong Kong harbour, conducted 25 October 1942, and the lone attack he personally made in his Curtiss P-40K Warhawk (nicknamed Old Exterminator) upon the famous Peninsula Hotel:
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