#5 in Top 20 Hong Kong for A Business Trip · ★★★★★
The Upper House
A 117-room André Fu-designed Swire hotel above Pacific Place in Admiralty, with the top-floor Salisterra restaurant and no pool.
A 117-room André Fu-designed Swire hotel above Pacific Place in Admiralty, with the top-floor Salisterra restaurant and no pool.
"A 117-room André Fu-designed Swire hotel above Pacific Place in Admiralty, with the top-floor Salisterra restaurant and no pool."
The Upper House opened in 2009 above Pacific Place in Admiralty, the Hong Kong member of Swire's House Collective and the work of local architect André Fu, whose calm, residential design language is the hotel's signature. For a business trip it offers something the harbourfront towers do not: a serene, low-key base with unusually large rooms, set directly over the Pacific Place mall and a covered walk from Admiralty MTR and the Central business core. There are 117 rooms and suites, and the entry-level Studios are among the most generous standard rooms in the city. Dining sits at the top of the building, where Salisterra serves Mediterranean cooking with harbour views, having taken over the space of the former Café Gray Deluxe. The honest caveat is facilities: by design The Upper House has no pool and no conventional spa, and its quiet, minimalist style is the opposite of a grand lobby, so travellers who want full resort amenities or a buzzy scene should look elsewhere.
The Studios are the standout entry rooms; for more space step up to a suite, or the Penthouse for the top-floor harbour view.
Book Salisterra on the top floor for a dinner with harbour views. Pacific Place mall is directly downstairs for early meetings or shopping, and André Fu's design is reason enough to choose a higher-floor room.
The Upper House sits within our broader Top 20 Hotels in Hong Kong for Business list. It scored an aggregate 9.8/10 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 Pacific Place / Admiralty (Hong Kong-Island middle) and adjacent. For a different city entirely, see the related lists below.
With dates settled, the booking window that works is about twelve weeks ahead. Rooms with the coveted orientation are claimed first, while popular-month availability runs out months in advance. It is the terrace and plunge-pool suites, the rooms this rank rests on, that book up soonest.
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