Hong Kong Hotel

Hong Kong Hotel was the Colony's first luxury hotel in Hong Kong. It was opened on the waterfront of Victoria Harbour, Central, Hong Kong in 1866.

The hotel

The building occupied an entire block, with entrances on Pedder Street, Queen's Road and Praya Central. Hong Kong's first deluxe hotel modelled after sumptuous London hotels, The Hongkong Hotel, stood roughly on the site of the present Central building, from 1866. Competing in all respects with the owners of , who owned the Peak Hotel, the management provided a special launch to meet arriving passengers on incoming mail steamers and ferry them direct to the hotel's pier.

Previous to the hotel, the land belonged to Dent & Co., where the west wing of its "princely" headquarters was located. In 1886, the hotel had added a north wing on the site.

The hotel was later rebuilt into a 6-storey structure, completed in 1893; the hotel burned down on New Year's Day, 1926.

The site was acquired by Hong Kong Land in 1928, and Gloucester Tower was constructed in 1932. It was redeveloped into in 1979.