Complimentary extras include a full breakfast buffet each morning, in-room wi-fi, fireside tea and cake service in the lobby every afternoon and fresh fruit delivered to rooms daily.
The fundraising jaunt comes at a difficult time for Obama, whose administration is facing heated questions from congressional Republicans and conservative critics over the handling of a deadly assault on a diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, and an admission by the Internal Revenue Service that Tea Party groups were singled out for scrutiny.
The big news over the weekend was that, as the Washington Post put it, "senior Internal Revenue Service officials knew agents were targeting tea party groups as early as 2011, " contrary to the claim we heard Friday.
Although not everybody's cup of tea (on a bad day, the service can be as churlish as any greasy-spoon in Barnsley, circa 1972), its products and style are said to be enjoyed by Anglophile masochists such as Quentin Tarantino.
Classic butler service was reintroduced, the famous Afternoon Tea room had its original glass cupola restored, the Savoy Grill was redone under the watch of Chef Gordon Ramsay, the lobby, the house cars, every element was fully updated and brought to the highest standards.
If you want to make a stay of it, the hotel is offering a family package that includes the tea, plus activities for kids and a special turndown service complete with bunny chocolates, cookies and vanilla milk.
At The Spa at Four Seasons Hong Kong, our glass of herbal tea was always kept full and the spa therapist personalized a service to beat our lingering jet lag.
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But White House aides are tempting fate with their reluctant, piecemeal and contradictory disclosures of what they knew and when they knew it, especially about a report on the Internal Revenue Service's 18-month effort to target tea party and other conservative groups for special scrutiny.
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The Justice Department is investigating the Internal Revenue Service for unfairly scrutinizing conservative groups thought to be aligned with the tea party.
Earlier this month, Debbie Dooley, another co-founder of the Atlanta Tea Party, urged the state's elected utility regulators on the Public Service Commission, all Republicans, to force Georgia Power to use more solar energy.
Traditionally drinkers of tea, Indians have of late been taking to ordering espressos and cappuccino at quick-service cafes as a growing middle class increasingly adapts to Western tastes.
The executive director of the Tea Council, Bill Gorman, said the Trenance "shone through" with their high standard of service.
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