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W Hotel Hong Kong Set to Soft-Open in August

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  Site Where: 1 Austin Road West, Kowloon Station, Hong Kong, China

June 9, 2008 at 10:19 AM | 0 Comments

While its spawn Aloft is procreating all over North America this summer, W Hotels will continue to open their exotic locations abroad. And the W Hotel Hong Kong will open a "selection of rooms" in August, just one week before the Olympic Games begin in Beijing.

Despite the annoying cutesy descriptions on the W Hong Kong's home page like this one--"In this eastern Manhattan, energy streams like hot tea at dim sum where W Hong Kong sits among modern splendour, oriental markets and colonial cool"---we're actually rather impressed by this hotel.

It could be the exotic location in Hong Kong but it could also be the presence of a swimming pool at 700 feet above street level. This time, we really agree with the W's overusage of "Wow."

The hotel will have two restaurants, Fire and Kitchen, which will be overseen by New Zealand Chef Michael Poutawa. There's also the WOOBAR where you can "woo, wink and wow your way across the room" and you can store your best vintages in the bar's bottle storage facilities.

The guestrooms are rather predictable W rooms and include such amenities as 42” LCD televisions,i-Pod docking stations and bathtub LCD screens and pay-for wired and wireless internet.

Rounding out the features of the hotel are an on-site W Hotels store and the first Bliss Spa in Asia.

As for location, we hardly think we should be disappointed if we stay here. The hotel is located in the West Kowloon commercial, entertainment, and cultural district and the hotel is adjacent to Elements shopping mall which includes luxury designer stores and high-end restaurants.

Room rates start at $384 a night (about 3,000 HKD), not including taxes. Reportedly, a few rooms are going to open just before the Summer Olympics begin, although the hotel's official opening is expected in September. Right now, the hotel's website says October 1 but as we learned with many Starwood hotels, those dates are not set in stone.

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