Empire Hotel Kowloon

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 8th 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 pitlike tower, rendering it grossly uninviting. Still, this hotel, popular with Japanese guests, compares favorably with Kowloon's other medium-priced accommodations.

Facilities:
Restaurant; bar; babysitting; exercise room; outdoor pool; room service; sauna

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