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Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong

In a year of Asian hotel one-upmanship, Hong Kong emerged a quiet victor with its cloud-grazing Ritz-Carlton on the upper 16 floors of the 118-story International Commerce Centre (the world’s eighth tallest building). The heavenly property is fitted with crystal fire pits, sun-dappled pools, and a chocolate library. After all, it’s one thing to jostle with tourists for a view from a sky-high building—it’s quite another to wake up in a 600-thread-count, down-feathered bed at 1,600 feet in the world’s highest hotel.