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Hong Kong is packed with stylish boutique hotels, says LUXE City Guides founder Grant Thatcher, showcasing high-end design, the latest gizmos and some of the best skyscraper views in the world
• As featured in our Hong Kong city guide
East
Located in the Island East office district and designed with the business person in mind, East offers spacious rooms, harbour views, a great gym, pool deck, and Sugar, one of the city's best alfresco terrace bar/lounges. It's also wired to the nines, with ultra-fast Wi-Fi and paperless check-in and check-out. If retail therapy calls, or a post-work night out is needed, you're only moments from the Tai Koo and Quarry Bay underground stations, ferrying guests to Central within minutes.
• 29 Taikoo Shing Road, Island East, +852 3968 3968, east-hongkong.com, doubles from around £130
The Upper House
The smallest studios at Andre Fu's Upper House hotel start at 730 sq ft, with jaw-dropping skyline views from every angle, including the one from your bathtub. Add a rain shower, espresso machine, free Wi-Fi, and a customised iPod Touch for room service, and you may find it difficult to descend to street level. Within the hotel confines you'll also find cool, contemporary locavore favourite Café Gray Deluxe restaurant, a relaxing lounge and an elevated garden, while shopping and dining hub Star Street is on the hotel's doorstep.
• Pacific Place, 88 Queensway, Admiralty, +852 3968 1111, upperhouse.com, doubles from HK$3,600 (around £310)
The Mira
The style-conscious, tech-savvy Mira is a destination hotel for the young and hip – all curves, glass and neon lights, with rooms awash in vibrant red, green, silver or purple, and dotted with tasteful additions – Arne Jacobsen's Egg Chairs, Bose sound systems and marble aromatherapy baths. Dining and drinking options abound – sweet tooths flock to the Coco chocolate bar, twentysomethings pose at rooftop party lounge Vibes, and foodies aim for Michelin-starred restaurant Cuisine Cuisine for Cantonese fine dining. Step outside, and it's bright lights, big city in central Tsim Sha Tsui.
• 118 Nathan Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, +852 2368 1111, themirahotel.com, doubles from around £165
Hotel LKF
Hovering directly over Hong Kong's party central, Lan Kwai Fong, is urban abode Hotel LKF, with 95 spacious, rich brown and gold rooms all boasting king-sized beds and metro views overlooking the city below. Stomping ground for social butterflies, the building also houses the Tom Dixon-designed Tazmania Ballroom billiards bar, NYC supper club-style restaurant Lily & Bloom, and Andre Fu's top-floor Azure fusion restaurant and bar (and later club). Outside, you're in the heart of Central, steps away from local lifestyle store GOD, renowned egg tart bakery Tai Cheong, and vintage tome collection Lok Man Rare Books.
• 33 Wyndham Street, Lan Kwai Fong, Central, +852 3518 9688, hotel-lkf.com.hk, doubles from around £170
Hullett House
Ten bespoke suites occupy the upper floors of Tsim Sha Tsui's Hullett House, a colonial white-stucco building once home to the Marine Police Headquarters. Today, Hullett House pays homage to Hong Kong's ancestry, with each uniquely themed suite celebrating a period of Hong Kong's heritage, from Imperial China in the Tsing Lung suite complete with Confucian temple, through art deco 1930s Shanghai in the Pui O suite, and all-white blanc-de-Chine decadence in the Silvermine suite. All come with private balconies offering skyline views and gardens below.
• 2A Canton Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, +852 3988 0000, hulletthouse.com, doubles from around £330
The Jervois
On a quiet, unassuming street in Sheung Wan, the ultra-modern Jervois apart-otel stands out with its elegant architecture and gleaming glass walls. Inside, the spacious one- and two-bedroom suites are only accessible via private lift lobbies, with stylish interiors appointed by Christian Liaigre featuring fine wood and marble finishes, leather bed frames, Simmons mattresses and floor-to-ceiling windows. The hotel doesn't offer any dining options, but the surrounding streets are packed with local flavours – aim for Michelin-starred dim sum favourite Tim's Kitchen on Bonham Strand.
• 89 Jervois Street, Sheung Wan, +852 3994 9000, thejervois.com, doubles from around £155
The Putman
The arrival of designer Andrée Putman's eponymous apart-otel in gritty, happening Sheung Wan signalled the beginning of the neighbourhood's rise to a seriously hip hub of bars, restaurants and shops. Each of its 25 airy, light, one-bedroom studios occupies an entire floor of a former commercial building with ground-to-ceiling windows, a chic concoction of neutral colours, blond woods and quality labels from Frette linens to Villeroy & Boch bath fittings. Elegant but livable, it has a kitchen, daily housekeeping and complimentary gym membership.
• 202 Queen's Road, Central, +852 2233 2233, theputman.com, doubles from around £180
J Plus
A breath of fresh air in the busy, concrete jungle of Causeway Bay, J Plus features contemporary clean lines and a white theme punctuated with occasional shots of juicy colour. The rooms can be a tad on the small side, but the large open-air podium on the second floor is a ideal lounging spot, sundowner in hand, followed by modern Italian cuisine in the Drawing Room restaurant. Causeway Bay metro and Victoria Park are both a few minute's walk away.
• 1-5 Irving Street, Causeway Bay, +852 3196 9000,jplushongkong.com, doubles from around £120
Hotel Icon
Designed by Terence Conran, William Lim and Rocco Yim, Icon is a handsome mix of quiet, streamlined sophistication in its rooms and suites and showy, bling-oriented public spaces – look for the vertical garden wall, soaring wood-and-glass helical staircase, terrace pool and Angsana Spa. Open kitchen stations serve a menu of global favourites from sushi to pasta, while all day cafe Green morphs into a bar at night serving cocktails. Book one of the club rooms or suites and you can access the Above & Beyond concierge service, private panoramic rooftop bar and complimentary breakfast.
• 17 Science Museum Road, Tsim Sha Tsui East, Kowloon, +852 3400 1000, hotel-icon.com, doubles from around £140
The Luxe Manor
With swirly flock wallpaper, fake fireplaces, trompe l'oeil picture frames, and a boudoir-on-acid collision of brooding purples and lashings of gilt, you'll either love or hate the Manor. In-house Scandinavian restaurant Finds is a more serene experience should the brashness prove a little too much, and the iconic grand dame Peninsula Hotel and the epic shopping mile of designer label-centric Nathan Road are both nearby. Alternatively, head to the Manor's Dada bar, which finds inspiration in Dalí's legacy of melted watches. After a couple of martinis, the entire hotel begins to seem distinctly surreal.
• 39 Kimberley Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, +852 3763 8888, theluxemanor.com, doubles from around £85
• Grant Thatcher is the founder and editor of LUXE City Guides, luxecityguides.com