Name(English): The Peninsula Hotel
Name(Chinese): 半島酒店
Category: Historical Site
Phone Number： +852 2920 2888
Address(English): Salisbury Rd, Tsim Sha Tsui
Address(Chinese): 尖沙咀梳士巴利道
Address Google Map Link: https://goo.gl/maps/hYbokBXiqnLSiFnH6
Address longitude and latitude: 22.295080332940742, 114.17185465983219
Nearest MTR Station: East Tsim Sha Tsui Exit L3
Nearest MTR Station Google Map Link: https://goo.gl/maps/8SkmHe3cdzchUwE27
Nearest MTR Station longitude and latitude: 22.29564393620776, 114.17199176972882
How far from the nearest MTR Station： 4 mins walk from East Tsim Sha Tsui Exit L3
Opening Hours:
MON 00:00 – 23:59
TUE 00:00 – 23:59
WED 00:00 – 23:59
THUR 00:00 – 23:59
FRI 00:00 – 23:59
SAT 00:00 – 23:59
SUN 00:00 – 23:59
Recommended Time to Visit: 09:00 – 18:00
Accessibility Note: Easy access with functionning elevators
The Peninsula Hotel is an icon of grandeur, the oldest hotel in Hong Kong, famous for its history and incomparable views of the Victoria harbour. Founded by the Kadoorie Family, one of the wealthiest British families in Asia, the hotel opened its grand doors in 1924 and billed as ‘the finest hotel in the Suez’. It was built strategically to have unobstructed views of the Victoria Harbour and Kowloon Railway Station, where it also used to be the final stop of the Trans-Siberian railway, from which deep-pocketed travellers would exit and make way to the hotel, with visitors including Charlie Chaplin.
The hotel experienced the ‘dark age’, as locals call the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong. During the Battle of Hong Kong, the Japanese army seized the hotel as its headquarters, where it is alleged that a lot of interrogation and torture took place. On the 25th December 1941, at the end of the battle, British governor Sir Mark Aithison Young surrendered in person on the third floor. The Japanese troops took him as a prisoner and confined him in one of the hotel suites for two months, before imprisoning him in Shanghai. The hotel was then renamed Tōa Hotel, or East Asia Hotel, and some say that the place is still haunted by wartorn ghosts. Visit the Peninsula for its world-famous high tea, in one of the baroque style tea rooms, and feel its history pulsing in its ornately decorated draperies and stained glass.
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