New staycation options in Hong Kong? Two Accor boutique hotels provide a tempting temporary home from home

Think you have tried every staycation option there is in Hong Kong? Think again – there are new hotels and their bars and restaurants to explore this summer

MGallery: AKI Hong Kong in Wan Chai is a warm, woody Japanese retreat, while MGallery: The Silveri Hong Kong on Lantau Island is the perfect romantic getaway

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Two new MGallery hotels, at the AKI Hong Kong (pictured) and The Silveri Hong Kong, offer staycation options this summer. Photo: AKI Hong Kong

Published: 5:15pm, 6 Aug 2022

Twenty-nine months without straightforward international travel may have you thinking that you have exhausted every possible staycation option, so it is no small pleasure (in a Stockholm syndrome kind of way) to have two new options to choose from in Hong Kong this summer.

MGallery, a boutique wing of the Accor hotel group, recently opened its first hotels in the city, in Wan Chai and Tung Chung. We took a look at what they have to offer.

MGallery: AKI Hong Kong

Opened in July in a new silvery skyscraper on the corner of Jaffe Road and Stewart Road, in Wan Chai on Hong Kong Island – within easy walking distance of the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre and the malls of Causeway Bay – this small hotel has everything you need for an affordable city break.

AKI is Japanese for “bright, clear”, reflecting the building’s glassy structure. Spread over 25 floors, its rooms have been given a Japanese twist; woody, uncluttered and pared back, with tasteful art, high ceilings and floor-to-ceiling windows showing off fantastic city views.

The third-floor lobby opens onto a co-working space and lounge serving salads, wraps, cakes, coffee and detox juices.

Tangram is where guests at the MGallery: AKI Hong Kong may gather and indulge in its spectrum of food offerings. Photo: AKI Hong Kong

A staircase leads to the floor below, where you will find Tangram, an all-day dining restaurant, where guests can enjoy noodles, dim sum and eggs prepared at live cooking stations for breakfast, bento boxes for lunch and sharing plates of reasonably priced Japanese-Spanish fusion dishes for dinner – think tuna ceviche, deep-fried shishito pepper, truffle toast and Hokkaido scallop kushiyaki (Japanese skewers).

Tangram is complemented by a horseshoe-shaped sake bar stocked with dozens of varieties of the Japanese spirit.