Of the latter, Mansion vice president Ly Ping Wu explains that the shelves are left empty because the Mandarin Chinese word for book sounds like the language’s word for lose. The villas themselves all feature carved cherrywood entrance doors and seeded glass bathroom doors, but otherwise are distinct in design: A bathroom in Villa 32 has a tub that faces a fireplace the entrance to Villa 7 is flanked with small gardens containing fishtail palm trees, ivy, and bromeliads Villa 18 has a massive terrace that faces the courtyard and the office in Villa 32 has five bookcases lined with curtains instead of books.
The Mansion’s 170-strong staff, which includes more than 30 multilingual butlers for the hotel’s 29 villas, maintains that state of affairs.
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