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Shop and drop at Lanson Place Causeway Bay, a Europhile-pleasing Hong Kong hideaway close to the island’s credit-card-flexing retail heart. As soon as you cross the threshold, you’re ushered away from the noise outside, first to the chandelier-adorned lobby, then to the refined orangery, before retreating to your green-, yellow- or blue-toned room or suite, which is likely to overlook the bustling city streets below (thank you, sound-proofing). On the second floor, Salon Lanson channels all the elegance and grace of a Ladurée tea room to further ensconce you in its pastel-hued Continental charms.
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Double rooms from £261.05 (HK$2,552), including tax at 10 per cent.
More details
Rates usually include breakfast.
Also
There are three accessible rooms with roll-in showers, plus audible emergency alarms for vision-impaired guests.
At the hotel
Free WiFi throughout, gym, Sunday wellness classes, and a laundry room with a washer and dryer for guests’ use. In rooms: universal power plug plus USB and wireless charging, smart TV, lighting and climate control panel, Nespresso coffee machine, Ruark Audio speaker and Codage bath products.
Our favourite rooms
What’s your favourite colour? If it’s yellow, green or blue, you’re in luck, since this is the trio of palettes employed at Lanson Place Causeway Bay. If you’re planning on staying a while, book a room with a kitchenette. And if you’d like free club privileges at Salon Lanson (all-day refreshments and evening cocktails), book a suite.
Packing tips
The chances are you’ll be in need of spare suitcase space following your Causeway Bay haul, so pack accordingly.
Also
The artworks on display have been handpicked by the hotel’s designer from a gallery in France – keep your eyes peeled for Matisse and Cocteau originals.
Children
All ages are welcome at Lanson Place Causeway Bay and most rooms have space for an extra bed. Babysitting can be arranged via the concierge with one day’s notice.
Sustainability efforts
The hotel has reduced its plastic usage, with no straws, bath products in dispensers rather than single-use containers, amenities in plastic-free packaging, and biodegradable takeaway containers.
The hotel is in Hong Kong shopping haven Causeway Bay, on the north shore of the island.
Planes
From Hong Kong’s international airport, it’s around a 40-minute drive to Lanson Place Causeway Bay. You can easily hop in a red and white cab; or hotel transfers are available for HK$1,500 a car each way (up to three passengers and two suitcases).
Trains
Board the Airport Express to the station in Central, then continue onwards by MTR to Causeway Bay – exit F1 is best and you’ll be at the hotel within a five-minute walk.
Automobiles
With a mass-transit system this slick (a hold-up of two minutes is considered ‘severe delays’ around here), you won’t need wheels to get around the city – but if you have crossed over from the mainland by car, you can stow it away in nearby car parks such as Lee Garden Two or Lee Garden Three.
Worth getting out of bed for
As the name suggests, Lanson Place Causeway Bay is in the namesake retail hub, one of busy Hong Kong’s most bustling parts. First and foremost on most people’s agenda here is hitting the shops, which span designer boutiques, high-street favourites and malls. For something a little calmer (and for those in search of an actual bay), head south to Stanley, where you can stroll the promenades, continue your retail therapy in the market and enjoy the surprising serenity of the island’s southern shores. Active sorts will enjoy hiking the Peak; for everyone else, there’s the newly refurbished (but still pleasantly Victorian in feel) tram to get you to the top. If you feel up to braving ‘the Dark Side’ (what islanders call Kowloon), catch the Star Ferry (or drive through a tunnel) to Tsim Sha Tsui (TST if you want to sound cool) to discover the K11 Art Mall, a seven-storey shopping centre and museum hybrid.
Local restaurants
Dim sum pilgrims should head straight to Din Tai Fung, a Taiwanese import with outposts all over the world and several in Hong Kong, including the Yee Wo branch in Causeway Bay. More diminutive dishes await at Little Bao Diner, which serves bao buns filled with fried fish, pork belly, teriyaki chicken and Angus beef (and matcha ice-cream for later). And if you’re really determined to stick with the small plates, try the tapas-dispensing Calle Ocho.
Local bars
You’re never far from an amazing harbour view in Hong Kong – and if you’d rather enjoy it with an accompanying shisha pipe, try Zeng. Speakeasy sleuths should attempt to locate APE (A Perfect Escape) in Tin Hau in the Wan Chai District (clue: it’s in a coffee shop).
Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this refined hotel in Hong Kong and unpacked their shopping bags, a full account of their city break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Lanson Place Causeway Bay…
You’d be forgiven for thinking you’d crossed continents when stepping inside Lanson Place Causeway Bay. The hotel feels more like a jazz-soundtracked private mansion with a Europhile owner (whose favourite countries are France, Italy and the UK, and it shows). The rooms have a rotating palette of green (select for hope and renewal), yellow (optimism and joy) and blue (serenity and freedom), with picture windows framing the skyscrapers outside. Salon Lanson on the first floor is a lesson in how to use Tiffany blue, with a menu of Asian plates and comfort-food classics ready to revive you after shopping till you’re dropping. Causeway Bay is one of Hong Kong’s leading luxury hubs, with designer boutiques and glossy shopping malls on your doorstep. Once you’re safely past the chandelier- and bas-relief-graced lobby, though, it’s a continent away from the buzz and bustle outside.
