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05 MAY 2026 hotels

Rosewood Hong Kong at Five — A 2026 Review

Rosewood Hong Kong opened on Victoria Dockside in March 2019 as the most ambitious urban Rosewood ever built — a 65-floor KPF tower with 413 keys, eight standalone residences, and a programmatic ambition to reframe what 'urban resort' means in a vertical city. Six years on, with Park Hyatt Hong Kong opening across the harbour later this year, we spent four nights across a Premier Harbour room and a Manor Club Suite to see whether Rosewood is still the harbour's reference hotel — and how it now lines up against the Mandarin Oriental, the Peninsula, the Upper House, Four Seasons, Ritz-Carlton, St. Regis, and the incoming Park Hyatt.

By Sebastian Vance · 25 min read

08 APR 2026 lounges

Cathay Pacific The Pier Business Lounge Hong Kong — A 2026 Review

The Pier Business at HKG: 31,000-plus square feet, Studioilse residential design, the Noodle Bar, the Foodhall, the Coffee Loft, the Bureau. Five visits in March and April 2026. The longer-form review of CX's flagship business lounge.

By Rhys Fitzgerald · 22 min read

28 MAR 2026 hotels

Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong: The Original, Sixty Years On

The Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong is the property the brand is named after — the 1963 Central tower that defined what an Asian luxury hotel could be. Sixty-three years on, after a 2024-2025 soft refurbishment and with the one-Michelin-star Cantonese Man Wah and the Maximal-Concepts-run Aubrey carrying the dining floor, we spent five nights in May 2026 across three room categories to assess whether the original still sets the standard.

By Sebastian Vance · 26 min read

16 MAR 2026 lounges

Cathay Pacific The Pier First Class Lounge at Hong Kong: The Definitive 2026 Review

Eight years after Studio Ilse handed the keys back to Cathay, The Pier First remains the single most considered first-class lounge in commercial aviation — a quiet, residential, almost stubbornly low-key counterpoint to the marble theatre of Emirates, Lufthansa, and Air France First. After six visits between February and April 2026 — three pre-flight, two transit, one extended layover with a 12-month-old in tow — here is the long-form editorial treatment the lounge has long deserved.

By Sofia Lin · 25 min read