What particularly bothered me was that no details of this change in policy were advised at check in or as part of the literature. Thus we ordered in the bar as we had previously only to be met with a large drinks bill at the end of our evening. Now to be fair this was waived after some heated discussion, but it would not be asking too much to point out the change to repeat guests who almost certainly would not be aware of a recent change in policy.

On previous stays we have always paid for the Ocean View room so I cannot really add much to AJ's Plat experience, an Ocean View room and the associated benefits is important enough for me at this property to pay the going rate. The crowded unpleasant pool area was the final issue for us and we were quite surprised to see the large number of families around the pool given the slightly off the beaten track location of the property.

Rooms at the Cyberport are very small (even the Ocean View) compared to the typical suite offering at the Sheraton Kowloon Towers. In fact even the bedroom of our last suite at Kowloon was significantly larger than an ocean view room at the Cyberport.

In future I think my stay preference in HKG will be the Sheraton and Intercontinental. Although I have also had good experiences at the Conrad, room allocation for Diamonds is rather inconsistent, rangng from very nice suites to quite small standard Executive rooms.