#14 in Top 20 Hong Kong for A Business Trip · ★★★★★
Kerry Hotel, Hong Kong
A 558-room Shangri-La-managed harbourfront hotel in Hung Hom, Kowloon, opened in 2017 with one of Hong Kong's longest private waterfront promenades.
A 558-room Shangri-La-managed harbourfront hotel in Hung Hom, Kowloon, opened in 2017 with one of Hong Kong's longest private waterfront promenades.
"A 558-room Shangri-La-managed harbourfront hotel in Hung Hom, Kowloon, opened in 2017 with one of Hong Kong's longest private waterfront promenades."
Kerry Hotel works for a business trip that values space and a waterfront base over being in the thick of Central. Opened in 2017 and managed by Shangri-La, it is a 558-room hotel on the Hung Hom waterfront in Kowloon, with one of the city's longest private harbour promenades and rooms that look straight across Victoria Harbour to the island skyline. The work essentials are all here: a large executive Club lounge, generous desks, fast wifi and a 24-hour gym, plus the seven-pavilion Big Bay Cafe for all-day dining and Hung Tong for Cantonese. The scale is the selling point, with bigger rooms than most Hong Kong hotels at the price. The honest trade-off is location: Hung Hom sits across the harbour from the Central and Admiralty business district, so most meetings mean a 15-to-20-minute taxi, MTR or Star Ferry hop. Choose Kerry if your schedule is on the Kowloon side or you would rather end the day on a harbourfront terrace than in the downtown crush.
Request a Harbour View room high in the tower for the full Victoria Harbour panorama, or a Kerry Suite for lounge access and a sitting area that doubles as a meeting space. Skip the city-view rooms if the skyline is the point.
Book a table on the Big Bay Cafe terrace for client lunches over the harbour, and use the Star Ferry from Hung Hom for a faster, more scenic crossing to Central than the road tunnels at rush hour.
Kerry Hotel, Hong Kong sits within our broader Top 20 Hotels in Hong Kong for Business list. It scored an aggregate 9.4/10 across the three editorial criteria, competitive against the field but, on a business trip-specific factors, the angle above is what earned its rank. For the alternatives in the same Hong Kong neighbourhood, see Tsim Sha Tsui East (Hung Hom) and adjacent. For a different city entirely, see the related lists below.
Once your dates are fixed, aim to reserve the room about three months out. The view-facing suites disappear earliest, and high-season inventory moves on a timescale of months, not weeks. Top-category rooms with private pools or terraces, the reason this hotel ranks here, are routinely the first gone.
A ranked shortlist, a special offer worth booking, and the overpriced stay to skip. Straight from the editors.