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Hotel ICONvsCordis, Hong Kong

Both Cordis, Hong Kong and Hotel ICON are rated highly by professional reviewers. On balance, Hotel ICON is preferred by most professionals compared to Cordis, Hong Kong. Hotel ICON ranks #10 in Hong Kong with recommendations from 13 publications like Condé Nast Traveler, Lonely Planet and Afar Magazine.

Hotel ICON
8/10
No.17 Science Museum Road, Tsim Sha Tsui East, Kowloon, Hong Kong
From $153/night
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  • Free Internet
  • Room Service
  • Shuttle Bus
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Lonely Planet Lonely Planet
Top Choice
"The rooms at this teaching hotel of a university are clean, modern and spacious, and the service is excellent." Full review
Michelin Guide Michelin Guide
"Its style credentials are clear, from the works by local artists to the modern staircase and vertical garden Market is a buffet restaurant; formal dining in Above and Beyond."
Star Service Star Service
"Using the word iconic is the ideal way to describe this large, but distinctive, design hotel." Full review
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Request a room as high as possible, and for a hotel with enthusiastic service and plentiful amenities, this one is hard to beat.
Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide
4 Stars
"Hong Kong’s much-talked about Hotel Icon attempted to outdo the rest by enlisting a group of design icons (hence the name) to decorate its stylish spaces." Full review
Oyster Oyster
Kid-Friendly
"Marriage of form and function, the four-and-a-half-pearl Hotel ICON combines luxury with high art, while serving as an educational center for the hospitality industry." Full review
Travel + Leisure Travel + Leisure
"This modern hotel is the result of a successful hospitality experiment: Its staff members are all hotel management students hand-picked from the adjoining Hong Kong Polytechnic University." Full review
Afar Magazine Afar Magazine
"Specially commissioned furniture pieces of lush marble and woods welcome you into your temporary living space while floor-to-ceiling windows provide views of the Victoria Harbour unlike any other." Full review
The Telegraph The Telegraph
9.0
"The Hotel ICON is what Hong Kong needs more of — a well-designed, well-run, well-located hotel at a decent price." Full review
Mr & Mrs Smith Mr & Mrs Smith
"At Hotel Icon in vibrant Kowloon, you can split your time between admiring the stash of contemporary Chinese art, the food served in the trio of restaurants, and the sweeping views of Victoria Harbour." Full review
Fodor's Fodor's
"Stylish and eco-conscious, Hotel ICON overlooks Victoria Harbour from the eastern end of Tsim Sha Tsui, on the Kowloon Peninsula." Full review
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Cordis, Hong Kong
7/10
No.555 Shanghai Street, Mongkok, Kowloon, Hong Kong
From $92/night
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  • Free Internet
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Concierge Concierge
"The ultramodern glass complex, which includes a swanky, 600,000-square-foot shopping mall, jump-started the gentrification of the entire neighborhood."
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If you feel like a lazy night in, you can choose from the hotel's huge DVD lending library; for something livelier, the on-site Backyard restaurant hosts weekend-night alfresco barbecues under fairy-lit mango trees.
Travel + Leisure Travel + Leisure
"Since it opened in March 2005, the glass-and-steel Langham Place, designed by the same team behind Tokyo's Roppongi Hills complex, has quietly become the city's hidden gem." Full review
Star Service Star Service
"The Langham Place Hotel Hong Kong is unique, as it's located in Mongkok on Kowloon, not on Hong Kong Island or huddled around The Peninsula Hong Kong in Kowloon's upscale Tsim Sha Tsui neighborhood." Full review
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The hotel has exceptional dim sum at Ming Court (be sure to ask for the XO sauce, a uniquely blended, spicy Cantonese seafood sauce) and a Japanese robata-style restaurant, Tokoro, that's always a crowd pleaser.
Lonely Planet Lonely Planet
"Peering out from one of the rooms of this colossal tower hotel, you’d never suspect for a moment that you were in Mong Kok. It’s a triumph for the district." Full review
Jetsetter Jetsetter
"The Langham Place Hong Kong rises 42 stories over the delightfully frenzied streets of Kowloon, embracing the city’s modern enchantment and East-meets-West excitement." Full review
Gayot Gayot
"Stylish guest rooms and suites across 42 floors on the Kowloon Peninsula."
Condé Nast Traveler Condé Nast Traveler
"Directly connected to the Langham Place Mall in Kowloon, this glass and steel 42-story tower has a location that "feels like the real Hong Kong."" Full review
The Telegraph The Telegraph
8.0
"It’s not in the super-luxury category but it’s in a lively area, rooms are nicely done and the higher views are fantastic." Full review
Time Out Time Out
"The words 'modern' and 'sleek' come to mind when thinking of Cordis at Langham Place." Full review
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Afar Magazine Afar Magazine
"Towering 42 stories over the Mong Kok district of the Kowloon Peninsula, the Langham Place hotel is one of the best options for adventurous travelers looking to experience the “real Hong Kong." Full review

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