Regent Hong Kong

Regent Hong Kong reopened on 8 November 2023 after the InterContinental Hong Kong closed for a three-year, ground-up renovation led by designer Chi Wing Lo. The 497-room hotel, at 18 Salisbury Road in Tsim Sha Tsui, returns to the Regent name and address it first opened under in 1980, before a 2001 sale rebranded it InterContinental for more than two decades.

The place

18 Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, at the tip of the Kowloon peninsula facing Victoria Harbour, near K11 MUSEA and the Avenue of Stars.

The concept

The hotel at 18 Salisbury Road first opened as the Regent Hong Kong on 1 October 1980, developed by New World Development and managed by Regent International Hotels, and quickly became one of the city's defining luxury addresses for its unobstructed harbour views. New World sold the hotel to Bass Hotels and Resorts in 2001, and it was rebranded InterContinental Hong Kong that June. After IHG Hotels & Resorts acquired the Regent brand in 2018, it announced plans to restore the flagship hotel to its original name: the InterContinental closed on 20 April 2020 for a three-year, ground-up transformation covering every guest room, public space, restaurant and the building's façade, with Hong Kong-born, Milan-based designer Chi Wing Lo — working on his first hotel project — leading the redesign. The hotel officially reopened as Regent Hong Kong on 8 November 2023, 43 years after it first opened under the same name on the same site.

Dining & wellness

Lai Ching Heen serves Cantonese cuisine; The Steak House focuses on meat and wine; Harbourside is an international buffet restaurant; The Lobby Lounge offers all-day dining with harbour views, including breakfast from local roaster the Coffee Academics and the hotel's afternoon tea; Nobu Hong Kong serves Japanese cuisine with Peruvian influences; and Qura Bar specialises in rare spirits.