Harbour Grand Kowloon

I wish I could do separate reviews for the restaurant/​buffet and the hotel rooms/​front desk. Let me start with saying the food was amazing!!! OMG I couldn’t get enough of it there. I just love eggs and rice for breakfast, it’s one of my favorite things when I go to Asia. Their desserts were okay but that’s just fine by me because of the rest of the food was blowing everyone away. There was also live music a lot of the nights and they weren’t bad and kind of nice. Friendly door service and most of the front desk staff was kind. I only had an issue with one gentleman that treated me like my existence was a problem for him. In fact with no one at the desk when I walked up he looked directly at me before walking away. Talk about rude but whatever.
The bedrooms were just okay. They were very clean, the bathroom was clean, a good place to rest your head but not very big. I think my bed was maybe a twin bed and I could lay on the bed and almost reach from the wall to the window. But it didn’t really bother me much because I was traveling solo. Had I been with someone that I might have been annoyed constantly bumping into them. The TV was also broken but I never complained to the front desk about it and instead I read a book I had picked up at the Hong Kong airport. I had amazing views of the water and Hong Kong city but I barely stayed in my room. When you only have a few days in Hong Kong your goal is to be up before the sun and around the city until everything shuts down.
Good place, nice and clean, beautiful, amazing food with the only downside being the small room and 1 rude employee out of the dozens I interacted with. I’d still consider staying here again but I do love trying different hotel rooms with every trip. Another positive is they exchanged my cash for me into Hong Kong dollars so I wouldn’t have to go out and do it somewhere else. That is something I’ve always loved is when a hotel is willing to do that. It makes it so convenient for the customer which is always nice. They also offer a free shuttle ride to get you into the city where you can walk around and do your own thing from there. I’d have to say in the states they’d charge you to take you anywhere so I was happy they offered that free perk to people staying at their hotel.

When I booked the hotel, I thought it is away from the main Nathan Road in Kowloon and so maybe a little inconvenient. But to my surprise, the shuttle bus service made it wonderful. Each trip on the shuttle bus gives you a short ride to near the MTR station and a great view of the harbor along the waterfront. We can actually have a couple of trips a day, dropping off shopping stuff and freshening up before the going out again. Great location, grand view, And… (another surprise), walking distance to the Whampoa shopping district which has a lot of local eateries and local shops.
The hotel is beautiful. Stunning, I should say. Grand staircase in the lobby with the harbor view, I immediately screamed «Cinderella!» Rooms are spacious and clean. The harbor view is spectacular! Definitely worth paying a bit more for that view. I have all the curtains open all the time. That view, that view, you cannot have enough.
Rooftop swimming pool, glass wall on one side, you can see the harbor from underwater, Stunning! Best swim with panoramic view of the harbor. Wow!
We have not tried the restaurants yet. Hong Kong has some much good food of all sorts so we prefer to go around the city.
So far, I am very happy with this hotel. It made me feel very happy from the time I wake up to bedtime.

We had an unintended Staycation on our way to Shanghai. Our Dragon Air flight was delayed for 12 hours!!! GRRRR… Luckily Dragon Air accommodated us by putting us in a hotel in Kowloon. I’d say this was more than a nice place. I think most rooms overlook the harbour. The room they put us in was a suite and we had a panoramic view of the WEST side of HK Island! Pretty neat!
Spacious room, 2 bathrooms, one small kitchen, comfortable furniture, and a super comfy king sized bed. Sadly we would only be enjoying this comfort for 5 hours.
When we got up, we had a try of the breakfast buffet (compliments of Dragon Air as well). The buffet was ok! Can’t expect too much… What I usually expect is inflated pricing. Anyway, for what it was, it is satisfactory to good. Various choices of cold cereals, four choices of dim sum, option to make a fresh omlet, various breads, pastries and danishes… You’d definitely get your fill.
Would I choose to stay here if I was visiting HK? YES, Only thing is, it’s too far from HK island. If I took the train here to get to Hong Kong Central Station, I’d estimate a 30 minute commute.
Happy Travels!

I love the view from the room if you do get the view room. I was lucky to have the view room twice. The only reason I give 4 stars instead of 5 stars is that, I dislike having to take the shuttle bus to TST train station. I like Langham Hotel better for the reason I can just hop on the train station in 3 min of walking distance. The conveniences of varieties of restaurants and the mall across the street from the Langham hotel is definitely plus also. If you like more suburbia-​nish neighbor, then you should go with harbour grand hotel.

I have stayed at Harbour Grand Kowloon twice, once when I was 13 and this past summer (August 2014). HG Kowloon is very westernized. Make no mistake, it’s no Shangri-​La, or Ritz Carlton but it is definitely only a minor step down from those westernized 5 star hotels.
The rooms are a little bit old, compared to my last visit when I was in middle school. But the rooms are still very clean and the beds are comfortable. There is a very delicious expensive morning buffet (think almost $ 50 USD) daily and a coffee shop that will serve your caffeine fix if needed.
The three things I most enjoy about Harbour Grand Kowloon:
1) The gym is top notch. I have been to many hotel gyms around the world & the equipment and scenic view of the HK harbour is unparalleled.
2) The pool and the view is NICE. Hotel staff gives you a towel on your way up to the pool deck, that is a nice touch.
3) There is a complimentary shuttle that takes you to and from the Tsim Sha Tusi
If your looking to stay at a nice westernized hotel during your stay in Hong Kong that won’t cost you a leg and an arm, try out Harbour Grand Kowloon.

Great hotel with a great view. Waking up to the view isn’t a bad thing to see first thing in the morning. Free shuttle to the MRT since the hotel isn’t close to the tourist areas which isn’t a bad thing since it’s nosy around the night markets. Rooms are spacious and doesn’t smell like smoke like in China. The ambiance is worth staying there.
My only complaint is the WiFi isn’t free. You will have to pay or if you pay for their breakfast buffet it’s free. You have to try their lunch or dinner buffet one time. Food was great even though it’s a little pricey but well worth it.
You can exchange currency at the hotel even though it’s a few dollars less than the exchange rate. All the staff are very helpful and friendly.

We really enjoyed our stay here at the Harbour Grand Kowloon… the staff are supremely helpful and friendly and the concierge desk staff were some of the best we’ve met/​spoken to…
The views across to HKI are fabulous; it’s akin to staying in Hoboken, NJ or Brooklyn… you aren’t in the center of Manhattan, but you do get the amazing views… well worth paying the extra for the harbour view rooms…
The only real problem is that to get into the thick of it, you need to jump on a (free) shuttle bus from the hotel down to the Peninsula Hotel at Tsim Sha Tsui (TST) where you can get on public transport to pretty much anywhere you want to go! It’s only a short ride, but it’s just something you need to take into account…
The hotel also does charge ridiculous money for the breakfast buffet; we skipped it and found a few different places locally, and around the TST, where we could eat for a far more reasonable sum. The breakfast buffet did look pretty good, but we are not huge eaters and for us it would have just been a waste.
The room we stayed in was spacious and well appointed… and the bed was superb — soooooo comfortable :-)
Would definitely recommend… and use the concierge — they really know their stuff… we had some excellent tips and recommendations from them that we’d never have found out without their insight…

This is a good hotel to stay, workout area and pool have fabulous views. Breakfast in the morning has many options like Korean, continental, thai and Indian along with local Cantonese cuisine. You can watch the sun rise over the bay, go for a morning jog with the locals, public park is close by. There are few bars right next to the hotel and you can enjoy casual dining with great beer options.
Getting to city center is 20 min taxi ride. The hotel seems to be popular with locals for the wedding receptions and photo shoots, that’s the HK style.

My experience in this hotel is limited to the rooftop and swimming pool area. That does not mean, however, that I was not able to experience the wonderful service upon arrival, or notice the excellent standard of hospitality while making my way through the lobby. It has everything a ‘Grand’ hotel should have, a wonderful buffet, a view of the harbour and most of all a team of staff constantly smiling and helping you (or me rather) along the way. Seriously, it’s as if the job interviews were all about how happy the candidate was, if the score was anything less than a ⁹⁄₁₀ (if that’s how you measure happiness) then they wouldn’t be hired!
Into the elevator and up to the 21^st floor. The pool is not big but it does the job of making one feel like they have no worries in the world. The view is magnificent and being on the rooftop really does add to the charm of it. As you would expect it’s more of a lounging pool rather than a ‘let’s swim laps’ pool which is fine by me. I spent much of the afternoon and evening doing my best to forget everything, including my own name, and simply tried to enjoy myself. It worked. By the pool is a cute little bar for snacks and drinks and below that is what they call the pool deck. It’s a open spaced terrace facing East, which I would imagine is an ideal spot for evening cocktails and the sort.
Fortunately for me I did not have to pay, a gift from a generous friend. judging by the prices of sparkling water, $ 44, I can guess it’s a little bit out of my price range. Live for the moment, so they say!