The Top 20 Hotels in Hong Kong
The best hotels in Hong Kong, by the professional record: Michelin Guide, 50 Best, and Forbes Travel Guide have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Rosewood Hong Kong comes out on top.
Upper House Hong Kong and Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong hold the next two places. Forbes Travel Guide shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with Michelin Guide next.
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Sitting on the Kowloon waterfront with most of its 400-plus rooms aimed straight at the Hong Kong skyline, this 65-floor luxury hotel holds the top spot on the World's 50 Best Hotels list and three Michelin Keys. Designer Tony Chi folded checked wool, tweed, and Damien Hirst sculptures into something that feels more like a very grand private residence than a tower block. Eleven bars and restaurants, the Asaya spa, and entry-level rooms that start at 53 square metres keep you from ever needing to leave.
- Michelin Guide 3 Keys
- 50 Best #1 · The World's 50 Best Hotels
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Recommended
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The check-in desk doesn't exist, which tells you something about this hotel's priorities. André Fu's design runs the full length of a Pacific Place tower, with rooms large enough to embarrass most Hong Kong apartments, limestone tubs, and floor-to-ceiling windows facing the skyline. The art collection runs to 400 pieces. Salisterra on the 49th floor handles Mediterranean food and harbour views. Ranked tenth on the World's 50 Best Hotels list.
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Victoria Harbour fills the windows of the classic rooms, and the city's social scene has been gravitating to the bars and restaurants here for longer than most guests have been alive. A grand full-service luxury hotel on Hong Kong Island, it holds a Forbes Five Star, a Michelin Key, and a spot on the World's 50 Best Hotels list. The Aubrey upstairs does the harbor view properly, and the spa runs two full floors.
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Pillbox-hatted pageboys at the door set the tone before you've even checked in. The Peninsula is Hong Kong's grand colonial hotel, the one locals call "the Pen," where afternoon tea in the gilded lobby comes with a string quartet and petit fours as a matter of course. Rooms run high-tech alongside genuine antiques, the views back across to Hong Kong Island are quietly spectacular, and the staff have a talent for appearing and vanishing at exactly the right moment. Forbes Five Star.
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Floor-to-ceiling windows frame Victoria Harbour from most rooms in this high-rise luxury hotel tucked into the International Finance Centre in Central. The mosaic-tiled outdoor infinity pools compete with that same view and mostly hold their own. Rooms run large by Hong Kong standards, finished in the kind of crisp, neutral calm that makes you forget you're in one of the densest cities on earth. A Forbes Five Star and a Michelin Key.
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Floors 102 through 118 of the International Commerce Centre, which means your room sits higher than most clouds passing through Kowloon. This Forbes Five Star hotel and Michelin Key holder has Victoria Harbour views from every window, and the rooftop bar turns that into a theatrical event. Six restaurants cover the range from Chinese to Italian, so you'll never run out of excuses not to leave the building, which is basically the point.
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The Great Room's 32-foot ceilings and André Fu's residential-scale design make the lobby feel less like a check-in and more like a particularly well-appointed living room. This Forbes Five Star, Michelin One Key hotel sits two blocks from the Wan Chai harborfront, with spacious rooms, soaking tubs, dramatic views, a spa, and an outdoor pool. Butler service, afternoon tea, and a Hong Kong-riff on the Bloody Mary round out the St. Regis signatures.
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Black wood floors greet you at check-in, and the rooms are reportedly the largest on Hong Kong Island, which helps explain the crowd of finance types who treat the place as a second address. This Forbes Five Star hotel in Central keeps only around 100 rooms, so the staff tends to learn your name fast. The spa spans two floors and the adjacent Landmark mall makes impulse shopping a structural hazard.
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The triple-height lobby windows framing Victoria Harbour feel less like a design choice and more like a declaration of intent. This Forbes Five Star hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui came back to its original name after a long run under another flag, and the charcoal-and-cream interiors by designer Chi Wing Lo give it a quieter confidence than its storied past might suggest. Most of the 497 rooms angle toward the water, and the two-Michelin-starred Lai Ching Heen anchors a dining lineup that has always been the real draw.
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Foster + Partners took a late-1960s government office block, kept its signature recessed windows and white arched facade, and turned it into one of Central's most striking hotels. The 336 rooms average out as the largest in Hong Kong, lined in Calacatta marble with views over Hong Kong Park. Six dining and drinking spots include a rooftop Italian and a lobby bar worth lingering in. It holds a Michelin Key and a Forbes Four Star.
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A hand-painted fresco ceiling dominates the Art Deco lobby here, which reads less like a hotel entrance and more like a stage set where everyone knows they're being watched. This large luxury hotel sits between the Convention Centre and Victoria Harbour, and leans into both: conference facilities sprawl, harbor views fill about seventy percent of the rooms, and a 50-meter outdoor pool and running track round out the amenities. Forbes Four Star.
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A 16-story glass atrium anchors this luxury hotel in Pacific Place, and inside it hangs a 167-foot silk painting called "The Great Motherland of China," which puts the lobby art at most hotels to shame. Rooms run large, with full-length harbor views, crystal chandeliers, and lacquered furniture that somehow doesn't clash with the bedside panel running everything. Seven restaurants mean you may never leave the building, which in Hong Kong summers, with the outdoor pool waiting, feels less like a failure and more like a plan.
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The 73rd-floor open-air pool deck, hovering above Victoria Harbour, sets the tone for what W Hong Kong is doing with this place. It's a high-design luxury hotel in West Kowloon where subtlety never got through the door, and the enchanted-forest lobby, with its 130-foot twig column and glass bubble elevators, makes the point immediately. Rooms are plush and wired, the service matches the setting, and Forbes gave it four stars.
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Hand-painted ceilings, velvet in gold and burgundy, marble underfoot: this grand luxury hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui wears its Art Deco, old-London personality without apology, even as the streets outside are very much Hong Kong. Rooms carry the same aesthetic but come fully loaded with modern comforts, and the service is the kind that remains patient and polished even when you are neither. Palm Court does afternoon tea on custom Langham Rose china, which sets the tone.
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Floor-to-ceiling bay windows in the harbour-view rooms put Victoria Harbour close enough to feel like a screensaver you could reach through. This hotel sits directly above the East Tsim Sha Tsui subway station, which makes Nathan Road's markets and malls dangerously convenient. Rooms run to earth-tone fabrics and marble bathrooms, and the spa does reflexology when the shopping eventually catches up with your feet. A Forbes Four Star property.
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Rooms start on the fortieth floor of a Pacific Place tower, so the views come standard at this full-service Admiralty hotel. The recent refurb leaned into gold, warm wood, and Asian artwork, which reads less gaudy than it sounds. A rooftop pool, massage suites, a steam room, and a solarium give the whole thing a country-retreat feel that the city center address does nothing to suggest.
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The Vivienne Tam suite on the 27th floor has an Opera Girl portrait made of Swarovski crystals and a ceiling modeled on a Chinese screen, which tells you exactly what kind of hotel this is. A roster of design names, Sir Terence Conran among them, was brought in to give every corner a point of view. The 262 rooms face Victoria Harbour, and the whole place takes its own aesthetic ambitions very seriously, in the best possible company.
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Three MTR lines feed directly into the lobby, which tells you a lot about how this Admiralty tower hotel operates. Pacific Place, the mall it sits inside, handles the shopping and most of the hunger pangs, while the hotel's own roster of bars and restaurants covers the rest. Rooms skew toward the business traveler, but the location, a short ride from the Peak and Tai Kwun, makes leisure work just as well.
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The rooms facing Victoria Harbour mean you can watch the skyline do its thing without leaving your bed. This mid-range hotel sits inside Harbour City along Canton Road in Tsim Sha Tsui, so the Star Ferry, Ocean Terminal, and a sprawling luxury mall are all within a short walk. A courtyard pool and a lobby lounge serving afternoon tea give you reasons to stay put when the city gets to be a bit much.
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A 110-foot atrium stuffed with indoor gardens sets the tone at this Tsim Sha Tsui hotel, where the design leans hard into natural light and element-inspired calm. The rooms keep that logic going with blond-wood desks and pale linen, and the rooftop pool looks improbably tropical given the financial district address. Victoria Harbour views are the other draw for anyone who isn't here to close a deal.