Regent Hong Kong Review: A Harbour Corner Suite, Two Pools and Breakfast for About $770 a Night

The short version: Regent Hong Kong is the 1980 harbourfront hotel on the Tsim Sha Tsui promenade, next to K11 Musea. It spent twenty years as the InterContinental and reopened as the Regent in 2023 after a full renovation. Inside it feels clean and modern; from outside it still looks like the 80s building it is. I booked a Studio Suite and was upgraded at check-in, without asking, to a sea-view corner suite with a living room. It was large, very quiet (37.7 dB at midnight), thoughtfully put together, and had fast Wi-Fi. The pools face the harbour, the gym is 24 hours, and breakfast at Harbourside is good with a wide spread. The check-in agent was excellent; the restaurant staff were a bit abrupt. One night came to about $768 all in, with the room at $694 plus an $18 resort fee and HK$438 ($56) for breakfast. Excellent value for a luxury hotel in Hong Kong, and I’d stay again.

I stayed one night at Regent Hong Kong on my own, November 2 to 3, 2026. I’d booked a Studio Suite through Billabook, a third-party site that came in well under the hotel’s own rate and Agoda’s, and the hotel honored it without any fuss. I came back for a second night, November 4 to 5, booked through Fora, where I’m an advisor. That stay came with complimentary breakfast as a Fora perk, and there’s a section on the Studio Suite below. The upgrade to a corner suite was given to me at check-in, free, without my asking; everything else I paid for myself.

Pros

• A large, quiet corner suite with a harbour view, good Wi-Fi and a lot of small touches that work
• Two outdoor pools: a main pool facing the city and smaller infinity spa pools facing the harbour
• A clean, well-equipped 24-hour gym with bottled water and lime water
• A big breakfast with a harbour view, a wide range of juices and, unusually, blueberries
• Right on the promenade, next to K11 Musea, a short walk from the Star Ferry and the MTR
• Excellent check-in, and an upgrade I didn’t ask for
• Very good value for what you get

Cons

• Restaurant staff can be abrupt, and they ask you to leave breakfast around 11:30 for the lunch setup
• A few stairs to breakfast and the pool, and the elevators aren’t obvious
• The room phone kept dropping the line
• The pool closes at sunset
• The headline restaurant is a Nobu; I’d have liked something more Hong Kong

Arriving

The hotel sits on Salisbury Road, on the Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront, with the promenade and the harbour in front and K11 Musea next door. The driveway has a fountain and the kind of entrance you’d see in an old Hong Kong movie. !video[4] The entrance

The bell staff took the bags from the car without my asking, tagged them and sent them up, and the lobby, with its glass-block columns and flowers, opens onto the harbour.

Check-in was the best part of the stay. The agent asked about my trip and recommended local food stalls rather than just pointing me at K11. He upgraded me from the Studio Suite to a sea-view corner suite, walked me up himself, explained the hours, and asked whether the temperature was OK. Truly excellent, and none of it asked for.

The room: 8.5 out of 10

The suite is on the 8th floor, with one side facing K11 and the other the harbour. Regent lists it at 69 square meters, and it feels like a small apartment: an entry corridor with the bathroom and closet, then a living room, then the bedroom. It’s not an overtly fancy room, but it’s very comfortable, large, and above all peaceful. There isn’t one standout thing; it’s a lot of little thoughtful details that add up, which I’ll get to.

The living room has a Nespresso machine, a nice tea set, a TV, a small sofa, a chair and a stool. The safe is in the cabinet under the TV, next to plates, wine glasses and even a jar opener. The minibar is free apart from the wines; lots of drinks, no snacks in the fridge, but a separate set of mixed nuts, rice crackers and gummies on the side.

The bedroom has a second TV angled toward the bed and a sofa by the window, with cushions set right in front of the view. The detail I liked most: comfortable slippers set out on a little foot mat in front of the bed, in a size that fits almost anyone. There’s a master panel on both sides of the bed for the lights, a sleep button, the drapes and the AC. Outlets and water are on both sides too, and the remotes come in a leather wallet. The AC goes down to 16°C, and there’s Kleenex in the bedroom and the bathroom.

The view at night is still very nice: the harbour and the city on the other side. It isn’t as spectacular as the Ritz-Carlton’s, though from that high up you don’t see much of the city after dark either. And this one feels quieter, because there’s nobody around.

The bathroom is big and well separated: a half-glass shower, a tub that’s nice but small and a bit hard to get into, and the toilet in its own room. The big vanity has flowers and a stool. The amenity kit is Perricone MD, though there was no razor. The towels are incredible, thick and luxurious.

The numbers: Wi-Fi measured 105 Mbps down and 104 up, and the room read 37.7 dB at midnight with a maximum of 44.9, which is very quiet. It passes the sleep test. The one thing that didn’t work was the phone, which kept dropping the line.

Breakfast: 8 out of 10

Breakfast is at Harbourside, down a set of stairs from the lobby, in a big room with a tree in the middle and windows onto the harbour. It’s a wide spread. The Western side has pancakes and waffles, an egg station, bacon, ham, and chicken and veal sausages. The Asian side has fried dim sum and Chinese tea-leaf eggs. Then a salad bar, cheese, charcuterie, smoked salmon and a lot of juices, all labeled with allergen codes. It can get crowded, and I saw no outdoor seating. The food is about the same as the Ritz-Carlton’s; the Ritz felt grander, with the city below you and its smoothies and red-beet salmon. Here the standouts are the juices.

Vitamin C juice: 8.5 out of 10. Kiwi, pineapple and pear. Tastes healthy, not too sweet, and my favorite thing on the buffet.

Mango juice: 6 out of 10. I’m fairly sure it’s the packaged kind; it didn’t taste like fresh mango. Skip it.

French baguette: 8 out of 10. The smaller of the two pre-sliced breads, and as good as a bread from a real bakery.

Sourdough: 7 out of 10. The bigger one. Pretty good, a little hard at times.

Blueberry yogurt: 8 out of 10. And they have blueberries, which a lot of buffets don’t: 7.5 out of 10.

Eggs, baked beans, bacon, chicken sausage and ham: 7 out of 10 each. All fine, all tasty, none of them memorable.

One thing I’d change: breakfast officially closes at 10:30, and around 11:30 they asked me to move so they could set up for lunch at noon. I’d rather they let you linger, or at least told you beforehand or offered another spot. The bill was HK$398 plus 10% service, HK$437.80 ($56), charged to the room; the upgrade didn’t include it.

Pool and gym

The pools are outdoors, a few stairs down from the lobby. The main pool looks at the city, with a little bar and loungers; the smaller infinity spa pools, almost like a hot tub, look straight out at the harbour and would be a romantic spot. The whole area feels calm, with the harbour breeze, and the attendant was friendly. Open 7 am to sunset, which I wish were later.

The gym is 24 hours, long and narrow, with treadmills and ellipticals along the window, a great selection of Technogym machines, including the newer ones that count your reps, free weights and a scale. They give you bottled water, which I prefer to a dispenser, plus lime water, towels and fruit, and everything looked very clean.

The changing room has a small sauna, dark wood and room for maybe two to four, plus striped towels, a swimsuit dryer and a water station. The spa has a dim, Japanese-style feel, like much of the hotel.

Updated: the Studio Suite, booked through Fora

I came back on November 4 for a night in the room I’d originally booked, a Studio Suite with a city view, 498 square feet, booked through Fora with breakfast included.

The studio is only a little smaller than the corner suite but quite a bit cheaper, so it’s the better deal. You walk in to the view, mostly K11 and the towers, with a window seat, a round table, a chair and a desk. The bedroom has the same large king, a TV, the consoles on both sides, and a tray of Perricone eye masks. Through a frosted sliding door is the bathroom: tub, a shower with good pressure, a long vanity and a separate toilet. It keeps most of the thoughtful touches. The slipper mat, the backlit onyx tea niche, the drawer of Regent kits.

It’s very slightly noisier because of the road, 39.9 dB at midnight against 37.7 in the suite, but not really audible at night. Wi-Fi was faster, 130 down and 122 up. It passes the sleep test, and I’d book it over the harbour-view suite.

The setting: 8.5 out of 10

You’re on the harbour, next to K11 Musea, and the view from the room, the pool and breakfast is the Hong Kong Island skyline. The hotel is peaceful. It also has a bit of classic Hong Kong glamour, like something out of a Jackie Chan movie. It opened in 1980 as the original Regent, became the InterContinental in 2001, and reopened as the Regent in 2023. Inside you don’t feel the age; from outside you do. The hallways are dark, with no windows.

I walked the promenade and K11 in the evening, which is the thing to do here: a beautiful walk with the skyline lit up across the water, and some nights a light show. Tsim Sha Tsui’s shops and the MTR are a short walk, and the Star Ferry to Central is a few minutes along the promenade. The one thing against it: the Island side has a bit more going on, and Central is a ferry ride away. Breakfast and the pool are both down a short flight of stairs, and the elevators aren’t obvious, which an older guest might want to know.

Service: 8 out of 10

The check-in agent was a 9.5 on his own, and checkout was the same, with the staff taking the bags and helping me into the car. The rest was average. Some staff were a bit direct, and one thing stuck with me: a staff member opened the elevator for another guest arriving at the same time and more or less ignored me. The restaurant was the weak point. The first thing you hear at breakfast is “hotel card,” and being asked to move at 11:30 for the lunch setup could have been handled better. Being a little softer would go a long way.

What it cost

First night, a Studio Suite booked on Billabook and upgraded free to the corner suite: $694, plus an $18.02 resort fee paid at the hotel, plus HK$437.80 ($56) for breakfast, about $768 all in. Billabook was cheaper than booking direct or on Agoda by quite a bit, and the hotel honored it.

Second night, the Studio Suite booked through Fora: $673.37 plus $91.95 in taxes and fees, $765.32, with breakfast included. The two nights came out within a few dollars of each other, and the Fora booking had breakfast in the price.

Value: 8.5 out of 10

Excellent value: a luxury hotel on the harbour, with a large, well-designed room, a good pool and gym, and great service at the desk, for under $800 a night with breakfast. The Ritz-Carlton, a few stops away at Kowloon Station, cost me about $924 a night for a 50-square-meter room, so even without the upgrade this is the better deal.

Who it’s for

• Anyone who wants the harbour view without the Ritz-Carlton price, and a bigger room for it.
• Couples: the infinity spa pools at the harbour edge are the spot.
• Shoppers and promenade walkers: K11 Musea is next door and the Star Ferry is down the path.
• Less so if you’d rather be on Hong Kong Island.

Tips if you go

• Check the third-party sites against the direct rate; Billabook was well under both, and Fora cost about the same with breakfast included.
• The Studio Suite is the better deal; a corner suite gives you the harbour on one side and K11 on the other.
• Finish breakfast before 11:30, skip the mango juice and get the vitamin C juice.
• The pool closes at sunset; the gym is open all night.
• Breakfast and the pool are down a flight of stairs; ask where the elevators are if you need them.

Verdict: 8.5 out of 10

A very comfortable, quiet, well-designed suite on the harbour, good pools, a clean 24-hour gym and a proper breakfast, for a price that undercuts most of its neighbours. The restaurant service and the phone were the only real complaints. I’d stay again.

FAQ

How much does Regent Hong Kong cost?

My one night in November 2026 was $694 for a Studio Suite, plus an $18 resort fee at the hotel and HK$438 ($56) for breakfast, about $768 all in.

Is Regent Hong Kong the old InterContinental?

Yes. It opened as the Regent in 1980, was the InterContinental Hong Kong from 2001, and reopened as the Regent in 2023 after a full renovation.

Does Regent Hong Kong have a harbour view?

Yes, from the harbour-facing rooms, the pool deck, the infinity spa pools and the breakfast room at Harbourside. My corner suite had the harbour on one side and K11 on the other.

Is breakfast included at Regent Hong Kong?

Not on my rate; the buffet at Harbourside was HK$398 plus 10% service. It runs 6 to 10:30 am, and they clear the room around 11:30 for lunch.

Regent Hong Kong or The Ritz-Carlton, Hong Kong?

The Ritz-Carlton has the more spectacular view and the higher pool, at about $924 a night. The Regent has the bigger room, friendlier check-in and a much better price, at about $768 all in. For a one-night stay with the view as the point, the Ritz; for value and comfort, the Regent.