Hong Kong, Hong Kong · Five-Star · ★★★★★
The Ritz-Carlton, Hong Kong
Floors 102 to 118 of the ICC. Ozone is still the highest bar in Asia.
Floors 102 to 118 of the ICC. Ozone is still the highest bar in Asia.
"Opened March 2011 on floors 102 to 118 of the International Commerce Centre — the highest hotel in the world by floor on opening, and still the highest in Asia. 312 rooms, the highest swimming pool on the planet (118th floor, 480 metres above sea level), and Ozone, still Asia's highest bar."
The Ritz-Carlton, Hong Kong opened on 29 March 2011 on floors 102 to 118 of the International Commerce Centre in West Kowloon — at opening, the highest hotel on the planet by floor and the highest in Asia, a record it still holds in 2026 with the Park Hyatt Shanghai trailing 13 floors lower. The brief, given to the Sun Hung Kai-developed ICC project by Marriott International, was singular: build the most architecturally ambitious city-hotel rooftop programme anywhere in the world. The result is a 312-key resort that begins on the 102nd floor and tops out, on the 118th, with the highest hotel swimming pool ever built — 480 metres above sea level, with a glass-floor section that looks straight down to West Kowloon below.
The room categories begin with the Deluxe Harbour at 50 square metres on the lower hotel floors (102 to 105) and run up through the Premier Harbour categories on floors 110 to 115. The Carat Suite (140 m²) is the considered business-anniversary booking. The Ritz-Carlton Suite, on the 117th floor at 320 square metres, is the celebration room — a wraparound terrace at 470 metres, a 12-seat private dining room, and a personal butler on call 24 hours. Every room is finished in the Ritz-Carlton brand standard: cream linens, dark walnut, beige Carrara marble baths, and the brand's signature in-room espresso machine.
Tin Lung Heen, the Ritz-Carlton's Cantonese restaurant on the 102nd floor, holds two Michelin stars and serves the most-respected fine-dining Cantonese in West Kowloon. Tosca di Angelo, the Italian restaurant on the same floor, holds two Michelin stars under chef Angelo Aglianò. The Lounge & Bar, on the 102nd floor, is the resort's afternoon-tea room with the highest single-floor afternoon-tea view of any hotel in the world. Ozone, on the 118th floor at 484 metres above sea level, is, in 2026, still Asia's highest bar — a glass-walled triangular cocktail room with a wraparound view from Hong Kong Island to mainland China.
What separates the Ritz-Carlton, in 2026, is the singular architectural ambition. The 118th-floor sky pool is by some margin the most photographed hotel pool in the world: 25 metres long, with a glass-floor section, with the entire Hong Kong skyline at the lap-end. Ozone — still Asia's highest bar — is the celebration cocktail room of choice for the city's wedding-eve and milestone-birthday markets. The Express Rail Link Hong Kong terminus is in the same connected building (15 minutes to Shenzhen). For a Hong Kong business stay where the meetings are West Kowloon-based, a milestone anniversary built around the world's highest hotel pool, or a generational family stay where Ozone is the night's set piece, this is the considered Kowloon answer.
West Kowloon Express Rail Link Station (15 minutes to Shenzhen) is in the same connected building. Hong Kong International Airport is 22 minutes by Airport Express from Kowloon Station. The Carat Suite has a 12-seat private dining-room boardroom; the 102nd-floor business centre has six further private rooms.
The Ritz-Carlton Suite on the 117th floor — with its wraparound 470-metre terrace — is the celebration room. Brief the butler 96 hours ahead — they will arrange a private Tin Lung Heen dinner in-suite, a violinist on the terrace, and a closing Ozone after-hours buyout for ninety minutes.
Two connecting Premier Harbour rooms on the 110th floor, the Ritz Kids programme (ages 4-12), and the world's highest hotel swimming pool on the 118th floor. The pool's glass-floor section is, for most kids, the highlight of a generational Hong Kong family trip.
Rates checked May 2026. Price varies by date and view.
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