Empire Hotel Kowloon
PRICE:
Frommer's Recommended
ADDRESS: 62 Kimberley Rd
CITY: Hong Kong
COUNTRY: China
PHONE 1: 800/830-6144 in the U.S. and Canada
PHONE 2: 852/2685 3000
FAX: 852/2685 3685
WEBSITE: www.empirehotel.com.hk
This is a functional hotel in a colorful location close to Knutsford Terrace with its open-air restaurants and the Hong Kong Museum of History. Small rooms, occupying the eighth through 26th floors of a round, hollow, glass-sheathed tower, boast wall-to-wall and floor-to-ceiling windows, though only the highest-priced rooms above the 17th floor have distant harbor views. Glass-topped desks and bowl-shaped basins rise above ordinary hotel furnishings in more deluxe rooms, but the dim, bedside-reading lamps will ruin your eyes. Unlike older Hong Kong hotels, showers here greatly outnumber tubs. The pool is at the bottom of the pit-like tower, rendering it grossly uninviting. Still, this hotel, popular with Japanese guests, compares favorably with Kowloon's other medium-priced accommodations.
Copyright: Excerpted from
Frommer's Hong Kong, 10th Edition, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

Hong Kong
, China