New staycation options in Hong Kong? Two Accor boutique hotels provide a tempting temporary home from home
- Think you have tried every staycation option there is in Hong Kong? Think again – there are new hotels and their bars and restaurants to explore this summer
- MGallery: AKI Hong Kong in Wan Chai is a warm, woody Japanese retreat, while MGallery: The Silveri Hong Kong on Lantau Island is the perfect romantic getaway
Twenty-nine months without straightforward international travel may have you thinking that you have exhausted every possible staycation option, so it is no small pleasure (in a Stockholm syndrome kind of way) to have two new options to choose from in Hong Kong this summer.
MGallery, a boutique wing of the Accor hotel group, recently opened its first hotels in the city, in Wan Chai and Tung Chung. We took a look at what they have to offer.
MGallery: AKI Hong Kong
Opened in July in a new silvery skyscraper on the corner of Jaffe Road and Stewart Road, in Wan Chai on Hong Kong Island – within easy walking distance of the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre and the malls of Causeway Bay – this small hotel has everything you need for an affordable city break.
AKI is Japanese for “bright, clear”, reflecting the building’s glassy structure. Spread over 25 floors, its rooms have been given a Japanese twist; woody, uncluttered and pared back, with tasteful art, high ceilings and floor-to-ceiling windows showing off fantastic city views.
The third-floor lobby opens onto a co-working space and lounge serving salads, wraps, cakes, coffee and detox juices.
Tangram is complemented by a horseshoe-shaped sake bar stocked with dozens of varieties of the Japanese spirit.