And when we left a book behind in our room at Mandarin Oriental, Singapore, the staff emailed us within 10 minutes of our departure offering to send it on to our next location.

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This demanding group of busy travelers placed Singapore's Raffles, Tokyo's Park Hyatt, Bangkok's Oriental, the Ritz-Carlton Millenia in Singapore and Hong Kong's Mandarin Oriental, Regent and Peninsula (at No. 1) among their choices for the world's top international and city hotels.

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