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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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