1010101

The only downside is the construction going on next door. I don't know how loud it is, but its a fairly big site. Otherwise I wouldn't hesitate to stay there.

TOMFORD

I don't see this on the IHG website, but does Ambassador give access to the IC club at IC properties? Reason I ask is because on the room upgrade confirmation I got there's also info on 1300HKD+ for club access per day, which seems like a hefty amount.

rkkwan

I did not hear a thing during all the times I've been to the IC in 2012 to early this year. And not in my harbor-facing suite, or guess room, on my wedding night and subsequent morning in end of 2012. Or any other time in any of the restaurant since then.

So, unless one's getting a city-facing room, one really shouldn't notice anything once inside the hotel.

hkskyline

Yep - Big skyscraper going up next door.

TOMFORD

Does anyone know how many floors the IC has?

JClasstraveller

You can count them on the photo in the post above

TOMFORD

I emailed the IC and they said the Superior room highest floor is 15, but Deluxe is 17... But I don't think the building itself only has 17 floors, and I don't know if the first floor only count as floor 1, or 1-2, or 1-3? Are all suites above 17?

User Name

There's a very pleasant pedestrian footpath that runs parallel to the drive, with nice landscaping, water features etc. You don't need to walk down the driveway with the cars.

Letitride3c

The hotel under construction next door by the New World Group is 63 stories high and scheduled to be ready or open in 2015.

The actual IC floor counts of 17 is about right - the grand lobby/main hotel entrance is really on floor #2 or #3 coming up the long driveway/water fountain (at least in the old days where we used to walk to/from the connecting mall and New World Hotel) Don't recall if they skipped unlucky (for many) 13 and/or 14 - so the highest floor might be numbered 18 or 19 (someone else could clarify that for OP)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HK..._FrontView.JPG

All of the the corner suites on the higher floors are nice and of course, the ones with the harbour view. BTW, IC runs a free shuttle bus to the nearby MTR station via Middle Road every 20 minutes or so from morning to evening, but not to AE Station (to/from - take a cheap taxi as the AE shuttle stop is too, too far away with luggage) With the tropical heat & humidity, you will be sweating like a hog doing the walking exercise, IMO.

mkjr

personally, I'd stay at a better hotel and enjoy the view from in front of the IC. I also don't really like the area. It's a little grubby. But that's just me. I like causeway bay the best but there is really no five stars there.

MSPeconomist

OT but will the skyscraper block views from the Sheraton?

SanDiego1K

No, it does not. I was not given access though I was a Royal Ambassador at the time.

percysmith

No. Sheraton's the block with the China Construction Bank logo.

rkkwan

Looking carefully from the Island Eastern Corridor just now, the new building is about equidistance from the IC, Sheraton and the Kowloon Shangri-La. At the eastern end of the original New World Centre plot.

chinmoylad

Optical illusion surely? Fairly certain it's a much longer walk from Kowloon Shangri-la than it is from the IC.