Regent Hong Kong | |
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General information | |
Location | 18 Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui Hong Kong |
Opening | 1980; 42 years ago (As The Regent Hong Kong) 2001; 21 years ago (Re-branded to InterContinental Hong Kong) 2023 (Reopening As Regent Hong Kong) |
Closed | April 20 2020; 2 years ago (as InterContinental Hong Kong) |
Owner | Supreme Key |
Management | Regent Hotels & Resorts |
Design and construction | |
Developer | New World Development |
Other information | |
Number of rooms | 497 [1] |
Number of suites | 85 [1] |
Regent Hong Kong | |||||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 香港洲際酒店 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 香港洲际酒店 | ||||||||||
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The Regent Hong Kong | |||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 麗晶酒店 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 丽晶酒店 | ||||||||||
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Regent Hong Kong is five-star hotel located at 18 Salisbury Road,Kowloon,Hong Kong. The hotel is on the harbour,offering views of Victoria Harbour and is close to various tourist attractions. The hotel has 497 rooms and 129 suites and is considered to be the flagship property of the group.
The hotel opened in 1980 as The Regent Hong Kong,owned by New World Development and managed by Regent International Hotels. It was built as the flagship property of RIH,founded by hotelier Robert H. Burns and Japan’s Tokyu Hotels Group in 1970. In 1992,Regent Hotels was acquired by Four Seasons Hotels.
On May 21,2001,New World sold the hotel to Bass Hotels and Resorts for US$346 million and it was rebranded as the InterContinental Hong Kong on June 1,2001. [2] [3] Four Seasons Hotels,which owned Regent Hotels at the time,controlled 25% of the property's management contract,causing them to enter rent arbitration with New World,which was resolved in August 2001,when New World agreed to pay Four Seasons an unspecified amount. [4]
In July 2015,InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG),the successor company to Bass Hotels and Resorts,agreed to sell InterContinental Hong Kong to Supreme Key,a consortium of investors,for US$938 million. [5] [6] It was reported that IHG will retain a 37-year management contract,with three 10-year extension rights. [7] [8] [9]
In March 2018,it was announced that the hotel would close for renovations in 2020 before reopening in 2021. Subject to InterContinental Hotels' majority-stake acquisition of Regent Hotels,the hotel will reopen as a Regent once again in early 2023. InterContinental Hong Kong officially ceased operations on April 20,2020,in order to commence the two-year renovation and conversion program to Regent Hong Kong. On November 8,2023,the relaunched Regent celebrated its official opening. [10]
The hotel has 497 rooms including 129 suites,designed by Milan-based Hong Kong architect Chi Wing Lo.
The hotel has six restaurants and bars. [11]
On 26 December 2022,the Regent Hong Kong opened with three destination restaurants:The Steak House,the Lobby Lounge and Harbourside.
Yan Toh Heen officially rebranded and returned to its original name,“Lai Ching Heen”,the name of the restaurant when it was previously the Regent Hong Kong. [12]
The hotel has received many notable guests and been featured in various films,television shows,and travel programmes. The notable guests who stayed at the hotel include the prince and princess from Britain,US presidents including Jimmy Carter,Richard Nixon,Gerald Ford,and George Bush,and celebrities such as Frank Sinatra,Elizabeth Taylor,Catherine Deneuve,Sidney Poitier,Roger Moore,Robert DeNiro,Charles Bronson,Julio Iglesias,Tom Jones,Bo Derek,Meg Ryan,Barbara Walters,Calvin Klein,Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. [13] [14]
The hotel has also been featured in various film scenes including the TV miniseries Noble House (1988) and TV movie Nightwatch (1995),both with Pierce Brosnan and US TV series Dynasty (1985). A list of television programmes filmed at the hotel includes Danish TV series Borgen (2012) and NBC’s Better Late Than Never (2016),while the feature film Lost in Hong Kong (2015) with Xu Zhen shot scenes in the hotel’s Presidential Suite. [15]
The hotel has also been a location for shooting popular music videos including Japanese pop icon Ayumi’s “Distance Love”music video in 2007 and Jay Chou’s “Give Me the Time for One Song (Gei Wo Yi Shou Ge De Shi Jian)”in 2008). [16]
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