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There
are lots of hotels in Hong Kong especially in tourist areas like
Tsim Sha Tsui,
Causeway
Bay, Jordan,
Yau Ma Tei, Mongkok,
and Wanchai.
They vary quite a bit in prices and even have different prices
in different periods - all depending on the demand and supply.
For example, when there are some big conventions or exhibitions
going on in the territory, the prices shoot up.
The expensive real estate in Hong Kong translates to smaller living space, and that includes hotel rooms. I don't know of any japanese-style "capsule hotels" in HK, but some budget hotels certainly don't have room for you to do cartwheels. And since different hotels call their rooms differently (some call their smallest standard size room "deluxe"), it's hard to know really how big they are until you're there. Just remember: you get what you pay for - sometimes even less!
Something else to know is how to interpret the location information about a hotel. The hotel may describe itself as just 30 minutes from
Tsim Sha Tsui downtown by car and 35 minutes by their shuttle bus, but if you tell
the local where you actually stay, to them it might as well be another city because it really takes a good hour or more by public transport.
And the travel time given by the hotel may just be that in no traffic, which does happen in Hong Kong: after midnight and before 7am!
Another way a hotel would 'help' you interpret the location is giving the distance from downtown or the airport. But Hong Kong is so small
that if you need to measure by miles/KM rather than MTR train stops, you can bet on its being
far!
- TIPS -
With so many hotels in Hong Kong, how should you choose? Well,
we can give you a few tips on the location, room size, and view.
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Hotels in different areas 
Since advent of the MTR subway in Hong Kong, the locals started describing areas by the MTR stations, which certainly tells you
the location of a place better than the real district itself. So we have adopted that as well to let you know what MTR station the
hotel is nearest.
Sometimes the name of the hotel could lead you 'astray' when you try to get there. L'H*tel Causeway Bay Harbour View
is one of such - it's actually right across from the Tin Hau MTR station rather than the Causeway Bay one. But then sometimes
a hotel is in between two stations, in which case we categorize it by the seat of our pants! After all this is just an unofficial guide!
Central hotels
Since Central is the central business district of HK, it's prime land, hotels there are those of 4 stars and up.
These are some of them:
Admiralty hotels
Being an area next to Central, Admiralty also has very nice hotels.
- JW Marriott Hotel
- Conrad
- Shangri-La
Slightly farther away from Central but adjacent to Causeway Bay, Wan Chai has a mix of hotels of different grades. But it has some nice harborview hotels.
- Grand Hyatt Hong Kong Hotel
- Renaissance Harbor View
- Gloucester Luk Kwok Hotel
- Hotel Novotel Hong Kong Century
- The Harbourview Hong Kong
- The Fleming Hong Kong Hotel
- South Pacific Hotel
- Empire Hotel Hong Kong Hotel
- Fraser Suites Hong Kong Hotel
- Metro Park Hotel Wanchai
(Wan Chai map)
If you like to shop, staying in a hotel in Causeway Bay would mean saving much travel time.
(Causeway Bay map)
Tin Hau hotels
Being just next to Causeway Bay, Tin Hau is just a hop, skip, and a jump from the neon lights and buzzling crowds.
Fortress Hill hotels
North Point hotels
Quarry Bay hotels
Tai Koo hotels
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