Hotel helps with happy hampers
Kowloon Shangri-La aims to tantalise guests' taste buds with baskets full of festive treats and swell its charity coffers at the same time
The Kowloon Shangri-La Hotel raises funds for Operation Santa Claus through different initiatives each year - and it loves to involve its guests in these events.
The special hampers contain gingerbread bearing the Operation Santa Claus logo, black truffle oil, cookies and Christmas pudding among other enticing items, and cost HK$2,188 each.
The funds raised from Operation Santa Claus this year will go to 18 charitable projects helping children with special needs, dementia patients and many others in need.
"Operation Santa Claus is very dear to the hearts of our staff. It is a charity that touches the lives of many," said Linda Wan, the hotel's resident manager. "We try to be creative and come up with things that our guests will enjoy."
There was one year when the hotel "auctioned off" its general manager. The winning bidder got the opportunity to have him wait on them at the hotel's Shang Palace Chinese restaurant.
Several years ago, the hotel also sold glass baubles with tags on, for guests to write their wishes then set them afloat in the hotel lobby's fountain.