The perfect Hong Kong buffet, a vast infinity pool – luxury hotel the Fullerton Ocean Park is a fun staycation option
- With a ‘fun desk’, an indoor kids’ zone and a children’s pool next to its vast infinity pool, city’s newest luxury hotel will appeal to families on staycation
- Couples and solo visitors will feel welcome too, the food offerings are great and service fast and friendly. Its claim to be sustainable is questionable, though
The quarantine period in Hong Kong might have dropped to three nights, but with limited flights at extortionate prices, jacked-up room rates at the city’s designated quarantine hotels – if you can find a vacancy – plus the stomach-churning fear of detention at the Penny’s Bay holding facility, staycations won’t become a thing of the past any time soon.
In a Stockholm syndrome kind of way, it’s a delight, then, to have a new hotel in the city to discover this summer, especially one as pretty as the Fullerton Ocean Park.
Fullerton has a small collection of luxury hotels, owned by the Sino Group, with heritage properties in Singapore (The Fullerton Hotel and The Fullerton Bay) and Australia (The Fullerton Sydney).
The Fullerton Ocean Park is the group’s first resort and, unlike its other properties, which are all located in historic buildings, the Southside outpost is a new build, with two towers that housing 425 rooms.
It’s admirable that the Fullerton is using glass water bottles (which can be refilled at stations on every corridor), has installed water-saving systems, is driving the urban diversity Farm by the Ocean project and is involved in the Coral Reefstoration collaboration, but those initiatives, plus a small pathway made of EcoBricks (produced from recycled plastic waste) that cuts through the gardens, do not constitute complete sustainability.
