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Hotels for Plane Spotting: The Regal at Hong Kong International

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 9 Cheong Tat Road, Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong
September 14, 2012 at 5:05 PM | by | Comments (0)

Airport hotels get a pretty bad rap. Sure, there are the greasy, grimy ones, but we like to think that for every one of those, there's a perfectly clean business-friendly one—or, even better, an airport hotel with the luxury of an airport view.

All this week we've looked at a few of our favorite hotels for plane spotting.

Here's our final pick:

The Regal Hotel at Hong Kong International Airport.

If, for some reason, you can only give yourself to one airport hotel, then by god let it be the Regal at HKG. All of the previous hotels for plane spotting have nothing on the Regal, which sits right alongside one of the major runways. All that separates you from planes of exotic airlines taking off and landing is a street and a low, thin building.

It just so happened that, after walking into our room for the first time, an Emirates A380 landed and, from that moment on, throughout a two-night stay, we found it exceedingly difficult to scrape our face off the window.

A word to the wise: the hotel is shaped like the letter D. Be sure to request a runway-facing room on the highest possible floor and, if you've got to the cash, upgrade to a Club Suite (from HKD $3,000/$386 per night) for a curved window that gives a far wider view, plus VIP perks. Then download the LiveATC app, put on HKG's tower channel and enjoy. Beware that WiFi is not free (unless you book online via their website, but our room was so near the airport building that we were able to tap into the free signal emitting from there. Score!

Sometimes, in our wildest thoughts, we consider returned to the Regal HK just as someone might want to hit up a favorite 5-star spa hotel. It's just so good that it's almost too indulgent.

The details:
· Attached to the airport via a walkway
· Average nightly room rate: HKD $1,445 ($180)
· Airlines & airplanes spotted: everything!

[Photos; Cynthia Drescher/HotelChatter]

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