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Empire Hotel Kowloon Frommer's Recommended

Address
62 Kimberley Rd
Location Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Kowloon
Transportation MTR: Tsim Sha Tsui
Phone 800/830-6144 in the U.S. and Canada, 852/2685 3000
Fax 852/2685 3685
Web site www.empirehotel.com.hk
Room Information 315 units (most bathrooms have showers only)
Prices HK$1,600-HK$2,400 (US$208-US$312/£104-£156) single or double; from HK$3,000 (US$389/£195) suite. Children 11 and under stay free in parent's room
Credit Cards AE, DC, MC, V
In Room Amenities A/C, satellite TV w/pay movies, minibar, coffeemaker, hair dryer, safe, high-speed Internet access

Frommer's Review

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.

Facilities:
Restaurant; bar; outdoor pool; exercise room; sauna; business center; 24-hr. room service; babysitting

Note: This information was accurate when it was published, but can change without notice. Please be sure to confirm all rates and details directly with the companies in question before planning your trip.


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