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Offering significantly smarter and only slightly pricier long-stay accommodation than next door’s Garden View. The location is excellent; the views to the city and harbour good. Maid service, free local calls, use of gym, satellite and cable TV, kitchenette and Central shuttle bus are all included in the price.

With pleasant rooms, a good Central location and excellent views across the Zoological and Botanical Gardens to the city and harbour, Macdonell Road offers good value for its position. Rooms have all the basics plus kitchenette. Long-stay packages are available (see Long-Stay Hotels)

Centrally located above a bustling produce market, this modern block offers cosy studios and spacious-looking apartments with smart furnishings, big beds, daily maid service and, for HK$250 extra, monthly unlimited broadband Internet access.

If location isn’t important then consider the YWCA-run Anne Black Guest House stuck out in Mongkok. The rooms (either with private or communal bathrooms) are basic but clean with air-conditioning, TV, and telephone.

It’s quiet and close to the park. Rooms are small for the money – but you pay for proximity to the Escalator. Long stay packages are available.

Air-conditioned rooms with shower, fridge, phone, bath and TV are merely adequate but the location and prices are great at this Salvation Army-run hotel.

The boxy rooms with ugly 80s wallpaper have smallish beds, but the place is clean, efficient and can be cheap, and has lovely views over Kowloon Park.

As you might expect from such a remote hostel, basic, barrack-like dorms are the order of the day. Those with tents may want to walk on and pitch camp at Tai Long Wan’s lovely beaches nearby.

Like Booth Lodge next door, there’s only a chapel and restaurant-cum-café to amuse yourself here. Still, the rates are lower, and the rooms are large by any standards.