City Garden Hotel Hong Kong

When I planned my trip to Hong Kong in late March, I decided to stay at a hotel on Hong Kong Island.
I checked several internet sites for affordable hotels and also checked catalogues from the travel agency.
Turned out that most hotels on Hong Kong Island are quite expensive, compared to the ones in Kowloon.
I didn't wanna spend to much money, but I also didn't want a too crappy room.

Finally I made a choice and decided to go with the City Garden Hotel, which is located in North Point near Fortress Hill MTR station.

Well, I made a real good choice here!
I went to the hotel with A1 Cityflyer bus, which stops directly in front of City Garden complex. I arrived kinda early, but they didn't hesitate a second about giving me a room some hours before official checkin time. The staff was very friendly.
They gave me one of their newly remodelled rooms, which was very nice. It had two very comfortable beds, a flat panel TV, nice bathroom, mini bar, safe and nice furniture.
Ok, admitted, the view from the window kinda sucked, because there is an ugly appartment building opposite your window... but what the heck ;-)
Every morning you get a personal copy of a newspaper.
You can purchase airtime on the hotel's WiFi network for internet access, which was quite expensive, or use the PCCW network which was also available from my room. Well, there's a Starbucks just opposite Fortress Hill MTR station, so if you just want to check mails once a day with your mobile, consider to use the 20 free minutes they offer there, or - as I did - sign up for a 5 day WiFi account at Y5ZONE, Starbucks's internet WiFi provider.

My room rate included breakfast. The breakfast buffet was surprisingly good and featured a good choice of chinese and continental breakfast.

One could argue that the location of the hotel is little off-side.
For my taste it was almost perfect! Fortress Hill MTR station, tram stop and Bus stop just around the corner. Many nice shops, markets and restaurants around. And the best thing of all - no tourists!
Ok, maybe a few... but you hardly see typical tourists there, most people look like locals. So unlike Tsim Sha Tsui people leave you alone and don't ask you if you want to buy a Rolex watch or something...

To sum it up: You get good bang for the buck in City Garden Hotel. I'd definitely go there again!

PS: Oh yeah, sorry for not posting more pictures... but somehow I forgot to take a pic of the hotel :-P