This hotel has several different rates and rooms and we booked an Essential Place Deluxe room on the 31st floor that included free wifi (which was fast and reliable), the wonderful breakfast buffet, and an iPhone to use while we were in Hong Kong.
The rooms were very clean, quiet, with comfortable beds and many amenities. The safe had an electrical outlet to charge your items while they were locked away. There were also the usual items such as a kettle for coffee and tea, hair dryer, ironing board, Nespresso machine, shoe horn, clothes brush, bathroom scale, bathrobes and slippers.
One negative for some people might be the fact that the wall between the bathroom and bedroom is a glass window with a shade that can be shut. The room also smelled musty and we had trouble getting the right temperature (either cold or stuffy) in the room, though I think that this might be a problem anywhere in Hong Kong as the humidity is very high.
Every single staff person we dealt with was pleasant and helpful.
The breakfast buffet was huge and had a very international menu. The buffet included a chocolate fountain with marshmallows and donuts. There were several types of breads (including gluten free), rolls, and pastries. Chinese items: dim sum dumplings and buns, congee, taro cake, and water chestnut cake. Japanese items: noodles and sushi. Western items: cold cereal, oatmeal, pancakes, French toast, eggs, omelettes, potatoes, baked beans, stewed tomatoes, sausages, ham, fruit, yoghurt, sliced meats and cheeses.
There is a Business Center with 6 PCs and 6 Macs. They will also print boarding passes. Ming Court is a 2 Michelin star restaurant with good food and service.
Mong Kok is very interesting with lots of good and cheap restaurants (try Good Hope Noodle on Fa Yuen for their handmade noodles where we had 2 meals for around US$10 or a rice in a crock on Soy St near Ladies Market). The hotel offers a free daily culture tour of the area with a great guide that I would highly recommend.
The red MTR line which goes to Tsim Sha Tsui (Peninsula Hotel, ferry terminal, Central) is next to the hotel. The best way to reach MTR station is go to Lobby, cross sky walk into the atrium with Starbucks, go down 2 long express escalators, and cross the street. Mong Kok station can also be accessed in the basement of the mall but the walk is longer. the MTR was clean, reliable, and frequent (longest we ever waited for a train was 4 minutes on Sunday morning). We bought the HK$300 Airport Express octopus card and added HK$100 for a 5 day stay which covered 2 Star Ferry rides, 1 tram, round-trip deluxe fare to Cheung Chau).
There is a food court in the mall with many table service restaurants (Shang Shang Shanghai is good) and there is a grocery store in the basement of the mall. There is also a Chinese (no English signs) food court hidden in the same building as the hotel.
To reach the hotel from the airport, we took the Airport Express to Kowloon Station and then a taxi from Kowloon station (HK$35).
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