Shangri-la Hotel Flash your Age

April 2010

A birthday is the date on which a person was born and therefore it is a special occasion of every person. Children eagerly wait for their birthday throughout the year and adults enjoy being pampered and appreciate if someone holds a birthday celebration for them.

As people gradually began to understand the lunar cycles, they started to develop the tradition of celebrating birthdays. In modern age, it is customary to treat someone especially well on his birthday. Shangri-La Hotel, Jakarta is launching the Flash Your Age promotion for birthday celebrant. The promotion is an age-based dining discount programme that will start on 1 January 2010 and run throughout the year.

With Flash Your Age, getting older can be so much fun and a birthday means so much more. Birthday celebrants commemorating their special day at Shangri-La Hotel, Jakarta on their birth date will enjoy a dining discount equivalent to their age. The discount percentage will be taken off the food bill according to the guest's age. The discount varies from any number of ages. For example, a person celebrating his 25th birthday will get a 25% discount on the food bill, while one celebrating his 100th birthday will receive a 100% discount.

For Birthday Celebrants

"A birthday is usually celebrated with friends or family members. Knowing the importance of the presence of a birthday celebrant's friends and family members, Shangri-La Hotel, Jakarta's Flash Your Age also allows a birthday celebrant to bring along up to seven other members to celebrate his or her special day and enjoy the age-based dining discount," explains Ratna Sjamsiar Idris, director of communications of Shangri-La Hotel, Jakarta.

A birthday is notably associated with birthday cake. To celebrate a birthday, people generally put candles on the cake to represent "the light of life" as the smoke from extinguished candles is believed to carry the birthday wishes up to heaven. A birthday celebrant usually makes silent wishes as they blow out their birthday candles, as it is believed that blowing out all candles in one breath brings good luck. Flash Your Age adds the merriment of the special day of a birthday celebrant by presenting a special chocolate birthday cake to add cheer to the occasion with the compliments of Shangri-La Hotel, Jakarta's executive pastry chef.

Flash Your Age age-based dining discount programme is applicable at Rosso, Shang Palace, B.A.T.S. and Lobby Lounge at Shangri-La Hotel, Jakarta. Distinctive Italian cuisine is served at Rosso, where birthday celebrants may enjoy a wide assortment of Italian dishes as well as cocktails, mocktails and a selection of more than 200 fine wines.

Shang Palace Chinese restaurant is the perfect place for Chinese cuisine aficionados who crave for Cantonese specialties. Birthday celebrants can enjoy a selection of course-by-course Chinese set menus as well as the much-loved dim sum luncheons.

Those who like to celebrate their birthday in a Western hip and trendy style might find B.A.T.S. (Bar and Restaurant at the Shangri-La) an ideal drinking and dining venue - a dynamic and stylish club that offers generous portions of food and top-notch nightly entertainment.

Meanwhile, for guests who seek a more elegant birthday celebration, the Lobby Lounge, offering views of the hotel's garden through its glass windows, is the perfect place for birthday celebrants to relax with families and friends and enjoy invigorating drinks or calming tea or coffee accompanied with a selection of snacks and pastries.

For more information, please call the restaurant reservations desk at (021) 574 8168 or access the website at www.flashyourage.com

Posted on 15th January 2010