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As Hong Kong's financial hub, Central has attracted many fine restaurants, luxury shops, and swank hotels where deals are hatched, closed, and celebrated. Prepare to pay top prices for uncompromising service amid glamorous skyline views. Just up the hill, Lan Kwai Fong nightlife beckons with rowdy release; farther up the escalators, the Mid-Levels offers peaceful respite. Admiralty is a busy traffic-hub extension of Central that climbs into the gentrified heights of Pacific Place, above shopping malls and embassies, to more remote palatial hotel offerings with panoramic views.
Up in the exclusive Mid-Levels above Central, this long-standing tower hotel offers unbeatable value, especially if you book its compact harbor-facing suites which offer impressive views and a more sensible amount of space than the standard rooms. Guests also get a modest business center, a fitness room with a view, an outdoor pool in summer, and a restaurant with open-air terrace.
Though somewhat out of the action, rooms in this high-rise hotel affiliated with the YWCA overlook the peaceful Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens and are clean, well designed, and affordable. The area is dominated by residential buildings, so you'll have to schlep down to Central for restaurants, shopping, and nightlife (but there are always taxis). An outdoor swimming pool is open for guests between May and October.
