The _Banking_Scot

Hi,

I would certainly keep looking out for cheaper rates ( Mid$3ks seem about average and low $2ks are very good for the Conrad). The Hyatt Regency TST is very good and can be cheap .

I think the baby in the lounge should be ok as I have seen a few in the lounge ( do not have any children of my own so cannot br 100% sure)
Regards

TBS

evergrn

teemuflyer

I would just book as 1 adult, especially since you have the free 2nd guest privilege just to avoid having to adjust later. I have been doing this for, well, seems like forever, and never run into issues when my wife has been with me. I really doubt they will count an infant at all.

And as mentioned earlier, just please be ready to leave either place if the youngster gets fussy. Never fun for the other guests.

wantan

are you looking at individual nights or the whole stay (multiple nights) ? sometimes the Hilton booking engine shows different rates depending on how you select the night. Try using the "Flexible Date" option to see how the rates are on each day. I remembered once having to split a 5 night booking to 2+1+2 for the best rate.

In any case, there's the JW Marriott and Shangri-La connected to the same mall.

If staying as a couple, I'd still select 1 person and add partners name when booking. Conrad HK provides a good baby amenity kit and worth requesting for a baby tub along with the crib.

As for lounge, no rules against children but apart from eating there's little for them to do there.

akhenaton

Using the Pay 3 nights, Stay 4 promotion that's ongoing, I was able to get a rate for late June of $1650 per night before tax.

https://www3.hilton.com/rs/luxury/of...3&om_mid=38511

teemuflyer

I sure hope those were HK $'s, or not sure how good of deal you got

anabolism

Rates do fluctuate, but in my experience it's less common at the Conrad HKG for rates to drop, but it can happen. One thing you might check is if standard room awards are available. If so, you could book those for all or some of your nights, and keep checking rates. If the paid or points rates drop, modify your booking to get the better rate.

Indeed. I've found the engine can yield strange results. I've run into many cases where a multiple night stay wanted to charge me the highest rate, while booking individual nights was cheaper, and a number of cases where two or three or even four nights was showing the lowest rate but a longer stay jumped to the highest. So, not only try "dates flexible" with a one-night stay to see the individual day rates, but also try "dates flexible" with two, three, or more nights and see what that shows.

H.J.Simpson

Is anyone currently staying at the Conrad Hong Kong. I am particular thinking of the demonstrations around Admirality station.
How is the access to the hotel (through the metro) and how is the atmosphere in the hotel?

RafKa

I am. The hotel itself is like an Oasis, with staff deployed at every access to leave protesters out. During the protests themselves (which are not happening daily, and only at scheduled times) access by car becomes very difficult (police will escort your taxi in), and the MTR station might be closed off due to overcrowding.

Other than all the shops at Pacific Place being shuttered and the mall being used as a chillout area, I would say the inconvenience is very much tolerable and safety issues are minimal. This is, after all HK, and most protesters are young, well educated and civil. Plus, you'll get a great view of the protesters from the 59th floor lounge. I'll try to attach a couple of videos I took (update: I couldn't).

teemuflyer

Youtube or the like?

But on your pther matter. Glad to hear the staff is taking care of all the guests so well and aside minor inconveniences, your stay is what to be expected from Conrad HKG.

antebellum

They need a place to escape the hot, humid weather, take a break, and use the bathrooms, after all.
Once you're back to hotel, apart from cars can't reach the driveway, things as usual.

anabolism

Thanks for the report. I would like to see your pictures/videos. Can you put them on a photo/video sharing site (Flikr, SmugMug, etc.)? I have a SmugMug account so if you like I could see about a way for you to upload there, if you don't have an account of your own you'd like to use.

During the Umbrella protests I always wondered what the staff themselves thought, and perhaps more so now, with the extradition bill being such a blatant mechanism for mainland China to erase Hong Kong's freedoms and the "two systems one country" agreement. It's got to be very worrisome and stressful to any Hong Kong citizen who prefers not living under authoritarian rule and censorship.

RafKa

PM'd you.

skydve1

I was there on Tuesday night 06/11, and checked out on Wednesday 06/12 to head to Shenzhen at 10am, just as they were closing down the streets. It was a total fluke that we left just in time.

We stayed again Sat 06/15 - Mon 06/17, and flew back to the US on Monday night.

On Sunday , the staff in the lounge were telling folks to just hang at the hotel. I walked down to the Wanchai Computer center about 10am, and people were starting to gather in that area. I got back to the Conrad about noon. My room was on the 61st floor, and had the same view as the lounge on the 59th, and I watched police start closing off the streets.

I went down to the street (in front of the Starbucks) around 4pm when the crowd got big and got some pics and video. I also went to the mall around 6pm, and several of the shops had closed their storefront gates.
The Conrad also had 'security' folks inside the mall where you can enter the hotel.

I watched on and off from my room and the lounge, and people were still marching around 11:30pm , when I finally went to bed.

The streets were clean and open again by Monday afternoon. The Conrad was business as usual.

smithrh

Silly question which I never to around to asking staff - where does the circular staircase in the executive lounge go?

Please don't tell me it leads to a nicer lounge... lol