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InterContinental Hong Kong hotel closes, to re-open as a Regent hotel in 2022

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InterContinental Hong Kong, one of the flagship hotels in the chain, has decided to finally push the button on its top-to-bottom refurbishment.  The work has been promised, but delayed, for a while but the collapse in business due to coronavirus means that this is a good time to push ahead.

The hotel will reopen in 2022.  It will NOT reopen as an InterContinental, however,  It will be branded as Regent Hong Kong, which was the original name of the hotel when it opened.

InterContinental Hong Kong review

IHG bought the small luxury Regent chain in March 2018 although, to date, it hasn’t shown that it has much of a clue what to do with it.  My personal view is that the InterContinental resort properties should be rebranded as Regent, with the IC brand focused purely on city centre business hotels.

The key reason to stay at InterContinental Hong Kong is the amazing views over the harbour.  With a luxury high-rise Rosewood hotel having just opened next door, this is less of a key selling point than it was.  We need to see how it looks post refurbishment.

The Regent properties have not been integrated into the paid-for InterContinental Ambassador loyalty programme.  (This HfP article explains how Ambassador works.)  This is another oversight by IHG, giving Ambassador members little incentive to stay there.  This will hopefully be fixed before Hong Kong reopens, especially as this is a great place to use your Ambassador ‘free weekend night’ voucher.

Here is my 2017 review of InterContinental Hong Kong, and above is my wife looking across the harbour from the windows in our room.


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Comments (44)

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    Usually 800 or so Avios for taking its 3 month free trial via BAEC or AerClub.

    • Sav says:

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  • Guesswho2000 says:

    Shame but not unexpected re IC HK. Fantastic hotel (albeit expensive compared to the Grand Stanford on Mody Road), would love to see Regent incorporated into Ambassador, we’ll see. The staff were informing guests about the imminent closure back in December when I was last there, now’s probably the ideal time to pull the trigger to be fair.

    • Simonbr says:

      +1. The ICGS also has impressive view across harbour and much better value. And can use AMB voucher.

  • Robert says:

    Good news re IC closing (was delayed too many times), but yes, let’s hope IHG do something about the Regent brand and AMB.

  • Neil Preston says:

    Rob, Looks like you have erroneously cut and pasted the IAG liability story from the other day into the email version of this post.

    • Rob says:

      Sorry, that’s Mailchimp getting confused about what it has sent!

  • Rich says:

    The IC HK was starting to struggle when the riots started – right outside! C19 was a final nail. Lovely hotel though. We had the most expensive meal we had ever had, in their steak restaurant on Christmas Eve 2018. However, this record was to last less than 24 hours when we had Christmas Day lunch just across the road and down a few yards (towards the Star Ferry) at Gaddi’s restaurant (for those in the know), but boy, was it worth it!! :- ))

  • Graham Walsh says:

    Guessing if you have used the music trial before you are not eligible for this offer now. Wants to charge me straight away.

  • Alan says:

    The problem is if they rebrand lots of properties to Regent as you suggest then the Ambassador programme becomes pretty useless. They need to keep more than just city centre business hotels in the brand if they want to encourage people to retain their status.

  • Kev 85 says:

    Is Hackett still the brand of choice for pretend football hooligans?

    • Lumma says:

      Not really, Stone Island, CP Company, Aquascutum are more popular

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