The Lan Kwai Fong is a wonderful boutique hotel in Central on Hong Kong Island. Not to be confused with the strip of bawdy bars of the same name, the LKF is perfectly placed for the sights and sounds of HK.

While the rooms are admittedly tiny the facilities are excellent and the staff extremely friendly and, if you secure a room with a view (the higher the better), the view is every bit as spectacular as its more expensive western neighbours.

www.lankwaifonghotel.com.hk

3 Kau U Fong, Central, Hong Kong
Phone: +852 3650 0299
Email: rsvn@lankwaifonghotel.com.hk

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A good, simple hotel, facing a sandy beach, located on the other side of Lantau's steep mountain.

All the other hotels near the airport are more than double this price (double room with bathroom about £35/night), so even with a taxi each way (HK$130 - £10) it's still better to stay at Silvermines.

If you have time, there's also the A35 bus from HK's impressive, gigantic, iconic airport. The bus gets there in the end, but a very slow and infrequent service.

Book on the internet (Expedia etc) for the best prices; book in directly at the hotel and you could pay 50% more! Make sure your internet booking includes their big buffet breakfast, which is really well worth having!

Great eating places all around the ferry terminal; foods are all traditional Cantonese style, fast vanishing elsewhere in the booming city. You will eat very well here for HK$30 or less per person. Steamed basket dim sum less than HK$10!

Remember that you have to walk a short distance along a pedestrians-only roadway to get there, so not good if you have a tonne of luggage. So travel light.

The very best thing is you can get into HK Central by direct ferry, in 30 minutes, a most memorable experience for a bargain HK$12.

Like New York, Venice Italy, and just a very few other cities in the world, HK should be first approached by water, in order to get the true flavour and best experience into the very heart of the place.

D. D. 2 Lot 648 Silvermine Bay Mui Wo Lantau Island

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If you are looking for budget accommodation, try Winner Holiday House for HK$170 a night. The room has a double bed, TV/DVD and its own bathroom.

The low apartment blocks are a five-minute walk from Silvermine Bay and can be booked on arrival from the accommodation kiosk on the pier

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I grew up in Hong Kong and recently returned for a holiday. The Island Shangri La is perhaps the best hotel in Hong Kong, as it is right downtown in Central and has entrances to the Pacific Mall. The rooms and services are brilliant as well.

Whatever hotel you choose, make sure to stay on the actual island itself. Kowloon does not have enough amenities or attractions to make it worth staying there.

Pacific Place, Supreme Court Road, Central, Hong Kong; tel: 852 2877 3838

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One of many luxury hotels in Hong Kong but this one is just that bit special. Extremely well located on the Kowloon side, it’s just a few steps from the Star Ferry terminal and the malls of Ocean Terminal. Opposite it is the Hong Kong space museum and it is not too far from the Hong Kong science museum – both great venues for children. And of course the hotel has a shopping mall of its own.

Rooms are spacious and elegant and the service is as you would expect. However the best part of it is that the hotel does relatively affordable helicopter rides. A fab way to see Hong Kong or to buzz yourself to the airport.

It also has Rolls-Royces to transfer you to the airport – very comfortable and only a fraction of the price of what you would pay for a car transfer from Narita to Tokyo.

Salisbury Road, Kowloon; Tel: 852 2920 2888; www.peninsula.com or www.lhw.com

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An excellent alternative to the noise and bustle of Central Hong Kong but easy to get there, with the locals, by ferry - which is two minutes from the hotel. Close to the airport (about 40 mins by taxi, 60 by bus). Excellent value.

D.D. 2 Lot 648 Silvermine Bay, Mui Wo, Lantau Island
Tel: (852) 2736-0922 Fax: (852) 2405-0922

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A lovely hostel right on the harbour at Tsim Tsa Shui - it's next door to the famous Peninsula hotel, and you get the same amazing views for a fraction of the price. Breakfast is great value, the rooms are hotel standard rather than hostel and there's a gym and swimming pool. Rooms are great value at 800-900HK dollars, which is about £55-65 for a double.

www.asiatravel.com/hongkong/ymcasalisbury/

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A great hotel with an outdoor swimming pool on the 7th floor and great views over the harbour. It’s on Hong Kong Island and above the amazing Pacific Place shopping mall. Really central and the staff were really helpful.

Pacific Place, 88 Queensway, Hong Kong Island;
tel: 852 2810 8366;
marriott.com/property/propertypage/HKGDT

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Most amazing views off the island to Kowloon. Cheap and clean as well if you are travelling on a budget. Loads of wildlife to be spotted on the path up the hill. Get a taxi up there the first day though - the walk up is not recommended with luggage.

Te:. 852 2817 5715; www.yha.org.hk/Eng-HostelMountDavis.html

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Whatever you do don’t take the advice of guidebooks to stay at Rent a Room, Hong Kong. Tiny rooms, rude staff and despite having sent my credit cards through in advance by email to make the reservation, we were sent out at 2am to a cashpoint to pay for the first night's accommodation in advance. The worst place we stayed in four months of travelling in Asia.

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