As Lui Chun boarded his Heathrow-bound plane in Hong Kong this month his fellow passengers probably didn’t pay much attention to the unassuming gent in a casual black suit and Nike trainers. How were they to know that the opening of London’s first billion pound hotel rested on his say-so?
Chun is a seventh-generation feng shui master whose family has been guiding the great and the good for about 900 years. And since the builders broke ground on Hyde Park Corner in 2017, he has visited the UK several times to advise the Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels group on the flow of energy through what is now the eight-storey Peninsula London hotel. He even suggested the opening date (September 12) for the £1.1 billion property, and his trip this month was to determine the precise minute that the reception team should hand over the first
