W Hong Kong :: Trying to Be Cool Is Not Cool, Or Maybe It Is

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

September 15, 2008 at 5:15 PM | by Jenna | Comment (1)

We checked in on the W Hong Kong today and hey, guess what? Bliss Spa is opening there today! And in a couple weeks, the place will be entirely hoppin' with the opening of Wet on October 1st (the usually-hip W pool scene -- this time, on a rooftop).

As per usual, we wanted to see how the place was going over with recent guests so we hopped on over to trusty TripAdvisor -- and responses are split 50/50. Literally. There are only 2 reviews.

We take on the daunting (not) task of rounding up the pros and cons after the jump.

CHM1 declares it lame, announcing that "trying to be cool is NOT cool":

Everything in the room was an attempt to be "cool". Light controls just marked "Day", "Sleep", "Evening", iPod connectors, in-built surrounding sound system (that's awesome!).
Didn't find staff to be especially helpful, as I was stuck outside the entrance because there was some hip party happening and they couldn't quite let me in...

Eh, just sounds like typical W to us -- not necessarily the fault of the property.

Luxmon offered another take:

*Rooms: Very nice and almost "too classical" for W standards! As usual in HKG, beautiful views.
*Bathroom: Exceptional, with floor to ceiling windows, bath, rain shower and television.
*Main Restaurant: Probably the most fabulous breakfast concept I have ever seen: The buffet is located in a "real kitchen", making you feel at home.

He also said of the staff that he "could not fault any single person in 48 hours. Young, helpful, friendly."

You should go check out the hotel and send your own tiebreaker review back to us -- we'd go ourselves, but we're far too busy trying to be cool without looking like we're trying. You know how we roll.

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I stayed at the W Hong Kong last Sept.10. Place is superb and views from the room are fabulous. The hotel itself is kind of hard to find, the taxi cab have no clue that a W Hotel does exist. I had to stear them towards the ICC building and even them following the signs is less then obvious. The reason is that the W HK is located in Kowloon West a bit off the actions and adjacent to the Elements mall. If you are coming in from HK airport the Kowloon station with the MTR train, brace yourself to go through a maze inside the Elements mall before finding the entry of the W that connects with the mall itself. Signing is far from being sufficient here. Anyhow once your inside all of that is history. The restaurant area is very nice and the gym on the 73rd floor as a marvelous view of the bay and the ICC tower development. With the schedule opening of the Ritz Carlton in 2010 in the upper floor of the ICC those two venues might get mixed up but in the mile high club trill seakers.

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