We decided to stay here for our first trip to Hong Kong after reading the reviews on this website and were very pleased with our choice. The hotel is in a very central but quiet location (just off a main road) and can be easily reached by tram or MTR (Tin Hau less than 5 min walk from the hotel - turn right on the main road and walk past the library!)

Very nice, clean rooms - compact but with all the necessary amenities. Hotel staff very friendly and helpful.

Beautiful views from the hotel bar on the 33rd floor - would definitely recommend it. Also free use of internet if you buy a drink from the bar.

We would definitely stay again, as not as touristic as Kowloon where you get constantly interrupted by people trying to sell you custom made suits!

We stayed in this hotel in August 2007. We arrived at our hotel from the Vigor airport bus which we prearranged along with our hotel through Dragonair. We stood around in the airport looking for our names on a sign. We were not told in advance that we had to go to a desk called Vigor to get our ride. A nice tour guide saw us standing around for 20minutes and helped us find our ride. Then we sat around for another 30 minutes for our bus.

Anyways, when the bus dropped us off (an hour later) we had to haul our own luggage (which was a lot since we had been travelling for 2 months staying in hotels) while the bell boys and consierge stood around. Then after we did all this hard work, they recieved a tip for taking the suitcases up the elevator.

The rooms are extreemly small and even the "no smoking" floor stinks of smoke. The eleavators are extreemly slow and inefficient. The breakfast is horrible!!!! It always took a long time for the maid to clean our room.

However, the hotel is in a fairly good location. But others are closer. It is a ten minute walk to the closest subway station, Causeway Bay, beside Times Square Mall.

I wouldn't recommend staying in this hotel. There are hotels closer to transportation.

While in Hong Kong, I recommend that you go to Lo Wu. However, a Hong Kong Visa is not enough. You will need a passport with a mainland visa. It takes about an hour on the train and is quite an experience. Lo Wu is full of great fakes but is a bit intimidating as people chase you around the giant mall and constantly are ducking from the police. You would think that Hong Kong would have great fakes, but I guess the police have really cracked down so you have to go to the mainland (Lo Wu)for the stuff. Locals were on the train with empty suitcases, we guessed to haul their goods home. The mall is called Lo Wu Commercial City. I think it cost us $5us to go to Lo Wu from Causeway Bay. If you want the "real" stuff there are tons of stores in Hong Kong with fairly good prices. They don't hassle you for bringing the "fakes" back, as long as you have a minimal amount. The fakes were quite expensive. A really nice fake
purse, supposedly leather, was $200us after 30 minutes of bargining. A ladies Gucci watch was $30.

We were really disapointed in Stanley Market, Ladies Market, MK, and the Temple Street Market. We found a lot more interesting buys in other parts of asia.

I would highly recommend Rosedale on the Park. We tried to book via the on line web site but it wasn't a secure site so we booked through expedia. Apart from that slight hitch we had a fantastic time, when we checked in we were told that we were going to be upgraded to a larger suite and it was fantastic. We had a seperate bedroom with a very comfy bed and a larger sitting room with kitchenette. The staff were all very friendly and we tried out the room service and the food was fantastic. We ate breakfast in the hotel and got the buffet for $70HK each, a discount of 30% because we were guests. I would recomend this hotel for either a long or short term stay.

After reading a fair few reviews on this site and having decided I didnt want to pay for 5 star on this trip I settled for Rosedale on the Park which seemed to have pretty good reviews, compared to the hotel I had previously booked which didnt fayre too well.

Anyone who has stayed in Hong Kong will know that the difference between 4 star bottom and 5 star top is very significant and in most cases you really do get what you pay for..

With Rosedale, it is cheap, I compared it against 3-4 other 4 star hotels I knew of and it was about $70aus cheaper so thats a bonus. Rooms are small, but again, experience in Hong Kong tells you that you will get a small room in 4 star on a budget.

I was upgraded to an exec room which is no different to a superior, but it is higher up, had a nice view and a double bed. The bed was fantastic, really comfortable with a big Duvet so I slept like a champion 3 nights in a row which is good for me when travelling.

pro's and cons.

pro's

- good value compared to many other 4 star hotels
- breakfast buffet was cheap, again, compared to other places but was probably of 3 star quality
- location great, right on Victoria Park and C. Bay shops
- quiet, didnt here a pin drop outside my room
- staff very friendly and keen to assist
- free internet in room, which was great, I used my laptop and the cable and it was really fast

Cons

- Small room, i travelled alone and was fine, might struggle with 2 people for more than a few nights.
- majority of staff "get by" on English, I had some communication issues with front desk and housekeeping (nb their English way better than my chineese tho, but not the point)
- Not an issue for me, but this hotel was probably 95% occupied by Chineese tourists, if you are after a western hotel with lots of European travellers, this isnt the one for you.
- Gym is tiny, one treadmill, one bike, some weights and a multi workout machine. More than 3 people in gym would be overcrowded and some of their marketing is a bit misleading, touting it as a room with treadmills in plural and much eqt.

Overall, a good comfortable stay, it didnt exceed my expectations nor did under deliver. Would I stay here again? Probably not, but that is because there are so many hotels in HK and like to move around, not a reflection on the hotel itself.

TIPS - The laundry costs are a joke, it costs about $60hk for one pair of jeans and $30Hk per pair of underpants. Youd spend $700HK on a load of washing (as much as a nights accomm). DONT DO IT, head right out of hotel and left down an alley about 50 metres from hotel and there is a laundry and the lady will do a whole bag of washing and drying for you for $30HK dollars which is about $4Aus.

Same with minibar, you can go to the 24 hour servo and buy 4 cans of beer, 4 cans of diet coke and some noodles for the same price as a bottle of water and bottle of sprite in the mini bar.