Bacchus in Hong Kong: Eight Mysteries(5)
Mystery #8: What Happens Between Floors 9 and 39 at the Island Shangri-La Hotel
Assigned a pleasant berth on the 43rd floor of the Island Shangri-La hotel, the elevator and I became old friends and I couldn’t help but notive the buttons when straight from floor 8 to 40. What happened to the missing floors? Was this the converse of the Mertin Flemmer Building in Being John Malkovich which had a 7½ floor or platform 9¾ in Harry Potter?
One clue may be that the Director of Rooms at Shangri-La is Nathalie Cockayne. As Wikipedia notes, the Land of Cockayne was “a mythical medieval land of plenty, an imaginary place of extreme luxury and ease where physical comforts and pleasures are always immediately at hand and where the harshness of medieval peasant life does not exist.” Sounds pretty much like Hong Kong to me.
