Kerry Hotel

Kerry Hotel is an urban lifestyle resort at Hung Hom Bay, with 546 rooms, a rooftop outdoor infinity pool and Big Bay Café's seven dining pavilions. It holds no Michelin stars and no Michelin Keys. The honest trade is the address: Hung Hom sits well away from the main visitor districts.

"An urban lifestyle resort with a rooftop infinity pool and a seven pavilion all day restaurant, set well away from the main visitor districts."

Aggregate 8.9/10 on our editorial scale (Room & Design, Service, Location). Independently scored; see our methodology. This is our opinion, not an aggregate of user reviews.

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What makes Kerry Hotel special?

Kerry Hotel is positioned by its operator as an urban lifestyle resort rather than a classical grand hotel, and the format is the point. It opened in 2017 as the fourth Hong Kong hotel run by Shangri-La Group and the flagship of the Kerry Hotels brand, with 546 rooms and suites on the Kowloon waterfront at Hung Hom Bay. Over 60 percent of those rooms have harbour views, the rooftop pool deck carries an outdoor infinity pool with a poolside bar and an open harbour outlook, and the hotel states it has the largest hotel meeting, event and catering facilities in the city. Big Bay Café is the signature: a single all-day restaurant broken into seven distinct live-cooking pavilions, a format unlike anything else in Hong Kong hotel dining. What the hotel does not have should be stated directly. No Kerry Hotel restaurant holds a Michelin star in the 2026 guide, and the hotel holds no MICHELIN Keys from the inaugural 2025 Hong Kong selection. Nor is it centrally placed, since Hung Hom Bay sits well away from the main visitor districts. Space, water frontage and resort character are what you are buying.

Which room should you book?

546 rooms and suites run from 42 square metres for a Deluxe City View Room up to 294 square metres for the Presidential Suite, so even entry categories are generous by Hong Kong standards, where 30 square metres is common at high prices. Over 60 percent of the rooms have harbour views across Victoria Harbour to Hong Kong Island, which is a far higher proportion than most harbourfront rivals deliver, and it is the single most important booking decision here. The other 40 percent look over Hung Hom, an ordinary working district rather than anything scenic, so the city-view categories are worth a discount rather than a shrug. The design follows the urban lifestyle resort brief, with a relaxed, contemporary register rather than the formal grand-hotel language of Central. This is a large hotel that skews to families, groups and events, so guests who want intimacy at the top of the market should look at the small Hong Kong Island properties instead.

Where should you eat and drink?

Big Bay Café is the reason people talk about dining here, and it is a genuinely original format. The all-day restaurant is organised into seven separate pavilions, Steam, Grill, Chill, Fry, Stew, Dessert Lab and The Nook, each with its own culinary focus and its own live cooking, so a single meal can move between cooking methods rather than a fixed menu. Nothing else in Hong Kong hotel dining works this way, and it suits families and groups particularly well. Hung Tong serves contemporary Chinese with views over Victoria Harbour and Hong Kong Island. Red Sugar is the cocktail bar and terrace, and the Lobby Lounge covers the daytime and afternoon-tea side. No Kerry Hotel restaurant holds a Michelin star in the 2026 guide, so this is not a destination-dining hotel, and the trip out to Central or Tsim Sha Tsui for a starred meal is a taxi or MTR ride rather than a walk. Judge the food here on breadth, format and harbour outlook.

What is the spa and pool like?

The rooftop pool is the hotel's best asset and the clearest expression of its resort positioning. It is an outdoor infinity pool on the rooftop pool deck, overlooking Victoria Harbour, with a poolside bar, and it is one of the few genuine rooftop infinity pools among Hong Kong luxury hotels, since several rivals that are described that way in listings actually have indoor or podium pools. The Spa at Kerry Hotel offers massages and facials, including aromatherapy, body scrubs and hot stone treatments, with a whirlpool plus steam and sauna rooms attached. Taken together with the size of the site, the wellness footprint is closer to a resort than to a city hotel, which is the trade for the out-of-centre address. Guests who plan to spend daytime hours at the hotel rather than in Central get the most out of this.

Where is Kerry Hotel, and how do you get there?

The address is 38 Hung Luen Road at Hung Hom Bay, on the Kowloon waterfront east of Tsim Sha Tsui. This is Hung Hom and not Tsim Sha Tsui, a distinction some listings blur, and it is the single most important thing to understand before booking. The upside is the waterfront: an open harbour frontage, room to spread out, and views across to Hong Kong Island that the dense Tsim Sha Tsui strip cannot offer at the same scale. The downside is that Hung Hom Bay is off the main visitor grid, so almost every outing starts with a shuttle, a taxi or a walk to the MTR. Whampoa MTR station and Hung Hom station are the nearest rail links, roughly 10 to 15 minutes on foot or a short ride on the hotel's complimentary guest shuttle. Hung Hom Ferry Pier is closer than the Tsim Sha Tsui Star Ferry Pier, which is roughly 10 to 15 minutes by car or shuttle. Hong Kong International Airport is roughly 40 to 45 minutes by car.

What do guests consistently say?

Guest reaction to Kerry Hotel is shaped almost entirely by expectations set before arrival. Travellers who book it as a resort, planning to use the rooftop infinity pool, the spa, the harbour frontage and the seven pavilions of Big Bay Café, tend to rate it highly, and the space per guest is unusual for Hong Kong. Families and groups do particularly well here, helped by rooms that start at 42 square metres and harbour views in more than 60 percent of them. Travellers who book it as a base for sightseeing report the opposite. A recurring complaint is that Hung Hom Bay is off the main visitor grid, so almost every outing starts with a shuttle, a taxi or a walk to the MTR. Guests also regularly note that the hotel is very large and skews to families, groups and events, which dilutes the intimacy expected at the top of the market.

Honest cons: who should skip it?

Three drawbacks, and the first is decisive for many travellers. Hung Hom Bay is off the main visitor grid, so almost every outing begins with the complimentary shuttle, a taxi or a walk of roughly 10 to 15 minutes to Whampoa or Hung Hom station, and spontaneous evenings in Central or Tsim Sha Tsui are not on offer. Second, this is a very large hotel with 546 rooms that skews to families, groups and events, and the hotel itself claims the largest meeting, event and catering facilities in the city, so the intimacy expected at the top of the market is diluted, particularly at breakfast and around the pool in school holidays. Third, roughly 40 percent of rooms have no harbour view and those categories look over Hung Hom rather than anything scenic. Add a fourth: no restaurant here holds a Michelin star and the hotel holds no Michelin Keys.