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Top choice in Kowloon


Return guests heap praise on this high-spec hotel with its luxurious rooms, complimentary minibar, sweeping harbour views and rooftop pool; it's the worst-kept hospitality secret in Hong Kong. Associated with a hospitality training school, it represents good value for the quality, plus you're never more than a metre or so from a keen-to-please staff member.

A little outside the action, Icon is a short stroll to the excellent Hong Kong Museum of History and the north section of the Tsim Sha Tsui East Promenade.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Kowloon attractions

1. Hong Kong Science Museum

0.14 MILES

Younger kids will go wild for the vast array of hands-on exhibits at this modern museum. The boring old laws of physics, chemistry and biology are…

2. Hong Kong Museum of History

0.18 MILES

Prepare to be whisked through millennia of Hong Kong history at this extraordinary museum, starting with prehistory (don't linger, the best is yet to come…

3. Rosary Church

0.24 MILES

Kowloon’s oldest Catholic church was built in 1905 with money donated by a Portuguese doctor in Hong Kong, initially for the benefit of the Catholics in…

4. Hong Kong Observatory

0.36 MILES

This lovely historical monument, built in 1883, is sadly not open to the public, except for two days in March every year (see website for dates). It…

6. St Andrew’s Anglican Church

0.47 MILES

Sitting atop a knoll adjacent to the Former Kowloon British School is this charming building in English Gothic style that houses Kowloon’s oldest…

7. Former Kowloon British School

0.49 MILES

One of the oldest surviving school buildings in Hong Kong, the Kowloon British School was established in 1902 to teach the children of expat residents…

8. Nathan Road

0.5 MILES

Named after Hong Kong's only Jewish governor, Matthew Nathan, Kowloon’s main drag is a bit of a traffic- and pedestrian-choked scrum of malls, jewellery…