555 Shanghai St, Mongkok, Kowloon Hong Kong China
852-3552-3388
http://hongkong.langhamplacehotels.com/en/
6 May, 2009
Rating:
10
Vicki Stout said:
This "Place" is SO much fun. Yes, it's a high rise, but then everything except the markets in Hong Kong is. I had a great view. It's located on the Kowloon side, snubbed by many, and in Mongkok, also snubbed by many, but I loved it!
This is a hotel with a sense of humor! All their collateral materials.....from notepads in the rooms....to luggage tags is fun and funny. Take the cards, complete with maps including a "you are here" portion. You can pick then up on your way out to give to a cab driver. The card says "Take me"....then lists popular destinations both in English and the native heiroglyphics. Or what about that luggage tag..."Everyone has baggage" it says. Or the note pad on the desk by the phone in the room..."Note to Me." Or what about "Dream Menu".....a listing of types of pillows you can order for your bed and head. And maybe my fave, the parting bill comes in an envelope headlined "We Miss You Already." These folks know how to turn a business-and leisure travel hotel-into fun. In fact, the business center is the last thing from 5 computers in a closet....big space, big screen TV's, computers and a bar.
Play and Work it's called. And past that, don't overlook the art gallery posing as a hotel....from the fabulous bronze pieces in the lobby to the walls wearing fine art-over 1,500 pieces total...this is indeed an arty and artful place. It's just down the street from the Must Visit Ladie's Market; it's a breath away from a train stop for the "subways"...a marvelous public transportation system, and it's in the heart of once not so fashionable Mongkok (and many travelers contend still not fashionable), an area that still looks like Asia...high rises yes, but street markets, bustling hordes of locals, not so sleek like the island side of Hong Kong. Langham Place is a new thrust of the venerable Langham Hotels and the polar opposite, not that there's one thing wrong with the latter; they're posh, elegant and refined. Langham Place is fun, funny, chic and hip for the young and young at heart.
