Royal Park Hotel

This is the hotel that my subsidiary company booked for my stay in Hong Kong last week. Royal Park Hotel, a 4 star hotel located in Shatin, Hong Kong. For the uninitiated, Shatin is located way north of Hong Kong and Kowloon and the main reason I stayed there was due to the proximity of the hotel and the company.

To my surprise, my room was very spacious. My last encounter in a hotel in Hong Kong was claustrophobic (the room was so cramped and packed with the fittings). But to be fair, that was a 3-star hotel and was situated in Mongkok. Guess you get what you pay for.

The lobby is well lighted and its elevators give you a nice view of the hotel's surrounding through the glass doors. I thought the smartcard security access at the elevators was very thoughful to provide privacy for the hotel's guests because the hotel is connected to the adjacent New Town Plaza.

For a corporate rate of HKD880 per night, I think it was quite worth it. Not forgetting to mention that it comes with a welcoming fruit plate (an orange, an apple and a pear) and drink at the bar, daily buffet breakfast, complimentary mini bar with daily replenishment (just beers, soft drinks, and mineral water) and a complimentary shuttle bus to Tsim Tsa Shui (didn't even use it due to the typhoon). My only complaint was that they should throw in the internet connection as well.


The elevators

The 8th floor

Spacious room, with LCD tv, and full of mirrors



















The sofa was tucked nicely at the corner


















It even has a long bath, considering space is scarce in Hong Kong


















The WC and rain fall shower. Check out the disability friendly designed.


















An external shot of the hotel when the clouds were away


















The nearby Shatin Town Hall


















And incidentally, the hotel is the official hotel for the Olympics games in August. Hong Kong will be hosting the Equestrian events in Shatin and major refurbishment works were visible. Here a mascots still under assembly, shot from my room window.


















And the best surprise of all, after a full day work, I got back to my room at 10.00pm. Then, the phone in the room rang. I picked it up and the hotel staff wished me happy birthday and told me they were sending a cake up to my room! Wow! I was speechless. Talk about Customer Relationship Management. They noticed it during the check-in and made a note of it. Guess not many hotels in Malaysia will do the same.

While I received many birthday wishes from my friends in Malaysia, I purposely kept it from my Hong Kong colleagues. They have been treating me well and I didn't want them to spend more than they should.

Anyway, back to the cake. It was a big strawberry cake and there was no way I could finished it by myself. I called Mrs Banana to tell her that this hotel was really great!


















The birthday card


















Looks delicious


















Time to make a wish


















Very berry strawberry



















Yummy and happy

Would I stay there again? Of course I would. In fact, when I left for the airport, the bellboy who hailed down the taxi for me gave me a note. He has written down the taxi number and the hotel contact number, just in case, if I were to leave something in the taxi. Now that's customer service.

P/S: Not to worry about the cake. I managed to finished it the next when I was trapped in the hotel due to the typhoon.