Hong Kong and Macau - Pacific Place hotel for 2 weeks

Hi All -

Sorry I realise this is yet another hotel question. I'm going to Hong Kong for work for 2 weeks.

My options for hotels are:
JW Marriot
Conrad
Island Shangri-La

Are they pretty much similar or is there one stand-out one? Not so fussed about a pool. But I would like a nice room (view not overly important), good gym and good food/room service.

Thanks for your help.

Hi,

Welcome to FlyerTalk and Hong Kong!

I will say all 3 are very lovely properties. There's also another one call "The Upper House" which is more a luxury hotel by Swire.

Are you any member of these hotels' elite program? Most if not all provides challenges that for example, Marriott give you Gold if you stay 12 nights within 3 months and whilst you are doing your challenge, you get the same privilege as a full member (for details please consult respective hotel program forums)

JW is in front of the others so you might have better view there.

Thanks for the welcome Chris.

I stayed at Upper House for a couple of nights last year for work and I loved it. However its not my my company's eligible hotel list any more so I need to try somewhere new.

I'm not in a hotel elite program, don't really do enough work travel to benefit from it (this trip is an exception). Not really too fussed about the view but thanks for the tip about the gold level for Mariott, will check out what benefits this gives me.

My preference at the moment is Shangri-La, for the free wireless.

Does anyone know which hotel has the better room service / late night restaurants? Think I'll be resorting to these during the weekdays as I'm pretty sure I will be working late.

I don't really stay in hotel @ HK, which I am based in :P

As my company's contracted hotel in Shanghai is at Marriott, I am more familiar with their program. The selection of hotel for you basically should rely on

1. Which family of hotel you are likely to stay when traveling to elsewhere

Shangri-La does not belong to any hotel group
JW Marriott is of course Marriott
Conrad is of Hilton

It depends where you normally will stay for your other travel major stays, it makes a huge difference when you have status at a particular property.

As I am more familiar with Marriott let me go though with you on that

Marriott provides free Internet in Asia as long as you are a reward member (be it just a super normal non-elite member), and when you sign-up online of their reward program, send their Customer Service desk a email or give them a call saying you want to have a Gold Challenge, which will give you gold benefit immediately (free breakfast, free upgrade, free club floor / concierge lounge access) and all the goodies for immediate 3 months which already to improves your stays (you will earn it for a year if you have 12 nights within the period, and if you can aim for 18 nights ask for a Plat Challenge). Not to mention there will be a 25% elite bonus points for your stay, which on a 2K HKD per night rate you earn approximate 44K points which is good for a fairly long reward stay at lower tier property (or you can opt directly for air miles, which can yield you approx 7K miles, which may make sense depends on how you plan to use the points)

For Restaurant I will recommend you to go Star Street, which is a nice area 5-10 minutes walk and houses good selection. I have never eat / stay in these hotel except Conrad which serve pretty good food.

Marriott provides free Internet in Asia as long as you are a reward member (be it just a super normal non-elite member), and when you sign-up online of their reward program, send their Customer Service desk a email or give them a call saying you want to have a Gold Challenge, which will give you gold benefit immediately (free breakfast, free upgrade, free club floor / concierge lounge access) and all the goodies for immediate 3 months which already to improves your stays (you will earn it for a year if you have 12 nights within the period, and if you can aim for 18 nights ask for a Plat Challenge). Not to mention there will be a 25% elite bonus points for your stay, which on a 2K HKD per night rate you earn approximate 44K points which is good for a fairly long reward stay at lower tier property (or you can opt directly for air miles, which can yield you approx 7K miles, which may make sense depends on how you plan to use the points)



Thanks for the tip Chris - I could definitely extend to 18 nights, but when I went on the Mariott Rewards website it said I needed 50 nights for Gold and 75 nights for Platinum, see link below.
http://www.marriott.com/rewards/member-benefits.mi

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Marriott provides free Internet in Asia as long as you are a reward member (be it just a super normal non-elite member), and when you sign-up online of their reward program, send their Customer Service desk a email or give them a call saying you want to have a Gold Challenge, which will give you gold benefit immediately (free breakfast, free upgrade, free club floor / concierge lounge access) and all the goodies for immediate 3 months which already to improves your stays (you will earn it for a year if you have 12 nights within the period, and if you can aim for 18 nights ask for a Plat Challenge). Not to mention there will be a 25% elite bonus points for your stay, which on a 2K HKD per night rate you earn approximate 44K points which is good for a fairly long reward stay at lower tier property (or you can opt directly for air miles, which can yield you approx 7K miles, which may make sense depends on how you plan to use the points)



Thanks for the tip Chris - I could definitely extend to 18 nights, but when I went on the Mariott Rewards website it said I needed 50 nights for Gold and 75 nights for Platinum, see link below.
http://www.marriott.com/rewards/member-benefits.mi

That's why it is called a challenge. You need to do 12 / 18 nights in 3 months compare to the normal 50 / 75 nights per year. This works like a trump card that can only be used once per year (or 2 year, which I forgot)

One of the many challenge threads

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/marriott-rewards/1115725-wow-gold-challenge.html

About two months ago, I stayed one night each at the Conrad and the JW Marriott. Between the two, the Conrad is much better in terms of room size, views, and overall service. I had a hard time checking out of the Conrad...it was one of those properties where you just don't want to leave.

My opinion maybe a little skewed because I believe I was upgraded to a better room because of my HHiton Diamond status.

With the Hilton Surpass card, I think you get Diamond status by either hitting a spend amount or it's free the first year. I'm not exactly sure as I'm not located in the US but there's a huge thread in the Hilton forum about it.

If you can get HH Diamond without much hassle, the Conrad would probably be a good bet.