Best Budget Hotels Hong Kong

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The overwhelming number-one choice among low-cost accommodations has long been the YMCA on Salisbury Road, which has the good fortune of being right next to The Peninsula hotel just a 2-minute walk from the Star Ferry and MTR subway station. Although expensive for a YMCA, the location and facilities are worth the price, especially since it offers Tsim Sha Tsui's cheapest rooms with harbor views. Great for families are its inexpensive restaurants and sports facility boasting two indoor swimming pools (a lap pool and a children's pool, both free for hotel guests except those in dormitory), plus gym, squash courts, and indoor climbing wall (fees charged). The rooms vary from 17 singles (none with harbor view) and more than 250 doubles and twins (the most expensive provide great harbor views), to suites with and without harbor views that are great for families. Although simple in decor, these carpeted rooms are on a par with those at more expensively priced hotels in terms of in-room amenities. For budget travelers, there are dormitory-style rooms, each with two bunk beds, individual reading lights, private bathroom, and lockers, available only to visitors who have been in Hong Kong fewer than 7 days. Needless to say, the Salisbury is so popular that you should make reservations in advance, especially in peak times.

Facilities: 2 restaurants, including the Salisbury, 2 indoor pools; exercise room; Jacuzzi; sauna; 2 squash courts; badminton; climbing wall; room service 7am-11pm; babysitting; coin-op laundry; bookstore (w/ children's corner where kids can try out books and games for free)

Our Local Expert Says:

• Tai Chi Class (Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings) • Jade Market Tour (Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday mornings) • Temple Street Night Tour (Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights)

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Eaton Smart, Hong Kong is a four-star hotel that combines elegant simplicity and impeccable functionality to create hassle-free comfort. Rooms are decorated with warm earth tones with dashes of natural colour. Bedding is new and you feel like you booked yourself into an ultra-premium hotel.

They have an Outdoor heated swimming pool and its surprisingly good value for a four star hotel that is just 3-minutes walk to Jordan MTR station

The service is essentially done Hong Kong style where people always say "can do". You'll find that the Assistant Manager is on duty 24 hours, there is 24 hour room service, 24 hour shoe shine service,  24 hour concierge and multilingual staff.

Yat Tung Heen at the hotel is a really good Cantonese restaurant whilst Yagura Kowloon's stunning hotspot for casual Japanese dining serves high quality sushi, tempura and izakaya-style dishes designed for sharing.

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The word "House" in the name is misleading, since it is actually a 25-story hotel, with a spacious but utilitarian lobby catering mainly to tour groups, school excursions, and budget-conscious business travelers, which gives it a dormitory-like atmosphere. Located at the north end of Kowloon Park, it's just a stone's throw from the park's indoor and outdoor public swimming pools and a short walk to a playground, making it good for families. The park's many paths also make it popular with joggers. Guest rooms, located on the 14th to 25th floors, are tiny but spotless, pleasant, and modern, with showers rather than tubs and fold-down vanity mirrors to create more space. Despite the hotel's inland location, some corporate rooms on the top floors offer great views over Kowloon Park of the harbor, the Peak, and the Symphony of Lights nightly laser show, as well as such extras like combination tubs/showers, minibars, and hot-water kettles. The very simple "Family Rooms" are equipped with bunk beds that sleep four for HK$1,450 (US$188/£94).

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Opened in 1985, this hostel is within walking distance of Nathan Road and many colorful markets, including the Ladies Market, Temple Street Night Market, Goldfish Market, Flower Market, Jade Market and Yuen Po Street Bird Garden, are nearby. Close proximity to the Yaumatei MTR train station makes access to most parts of the territory convenient and easy.

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This hotel at the northern end of Tsim Sha Tsui towers 17 stories above a six-level shopping complex and the MTR Jordan station, providing easy and direct access to the rest of Hong Kong. About a 20-minute walk from the Star Ferry and only minutes from the Temple Street Night Market, Jade Market, and a Tin Hau (Goddess of the Sea) temple, it offers smartly decorated rooms with sleek furniture, artwork, and Japanese moving panels framing the windows. The rates are based on height, with the cheapest rooms on lower floors. If possible, avoid those facing the back and nondescript buildings. Deluxe rooms feature floor-to-ceiling bay windows and receive more sunshine. Although the hotel itself has only a coffee shop and a bar, several other restaurants are within the shopping complex. Another plus is the 18m-long (59-ft.) rooftop pool.

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About a 30-minute walk to the Star Ferry, but close to the Jade Market, Temple Street Night Market, Ladies' Market, and MTR station, Booth Lodge is located just off Nathan Road on the seventh floor of the Salvation Army building. It has a comfortable lobby and an adjacent coffee shop offering very reasonably priced lunch and dinner buffets with Chinese, Japanese, and Western selections, but best is the restaurant's outdoor brick terrace overlooking a wooded hillside, where buffet barbecues are held in peak season. Rooms, all twins or doubles and either standard rooms or larger deluxe rooms, are all nonsmoking and spotlessly clean with a small window. Some face the madness of Nathan Road, but those facing the hillside are quieter. If you're looking for inexpensive yet reliable lodging in a convenient location, this is a good bet. A bonus: Local telephone calls are free.

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The Kowloon is a modern glass-walled structure right behind The Peninsula, giving it a great location just a few minutes' walk from the Star Ferry and MTR. Though it has no recreational facilities of its own, guests can use the pool and health club at the YMCA cater-cornered to the hotel or at its sister Harbour Plaza Metropolis hotel (free shuttle available) at reduced fees. The downside of the hotel: Rooms are minuscule and plagued by traffic noise. Although they have V-shaped bay windows, allowing unobstructed views up and down the street, The Peninsula's tower has robbed harbor views from all but the most expensive rooms. Recommended only if you don't plan on spending any quality time in your room.

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More than 40 years old, this hotel underwent such a massive overhaul a few years back, it's no longer the same place. Gone are the drab lobby and dark rooms, replaced by contemporary furniture, artwork by a local artist, an inviting rooftop bar with outdoor seating, and a Starbucks. Remaining, luckily, is one of the property's best features -- large rooms and bathrooms, dating from an era when land was less expensive. Choose from three levels of service: standard rooms, executive rooms for business travelers, and chic Nathan club rooms from the ninth to 14th floors offering 42-inch LCD TVs, DVD players, free Internet, and a private lounge. The hotel attracts business travelers from mainland China and other Asian countries, though its location near the Temple Street Night Market and Jordan MTR station make it a good choice for leisure travelers as well. It's located north of Tsim Sha Tsui, about a 20-minute walk from the Star Ferry.

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This infamous ghetto-like structure, once a haven for gold smuggling, has some of the cheapest rates in town, making it a legendary haunt for backpackers and budget travelers in search of adventure. Although not the place for families or comfort seekers, this place offers excitement for those seeking Hong Kong's underground. The higher up you go in the building the higher the rates. Night can be a bit interesting as you might run into everything from rowdy youth and raiding police to persistent street peddlers at the outside shopping arcade. Cheap curry restaurants also line the lower floors. The MTR train station is almost right outside, providing a quick escape to other parts of the city.