CM+ Hotels and Serviced Apartments

Architecture & Design

CM+ Hotels and Serviced Apartments stands at 16 Connaught Road West, occupying a waterfront footprint at the boundary of Sheung Wan and the Western District. The property comprises two towers — North and South — with 135 units between them: 54 studio and one-bedroom layouts in the North Tower, sized around 706 square feet, and 81 units in the South Tower ranging from roughly 630 to 1,412 square feet. It operates as the group’s first hotel and serviced-apartment property in Hong Kong, built around long-stay use rather than short overnight turnover, which shapes the interior approach toward durable, low-maintenance materials suited to extended occupancy — engineered flooring, built-in storage, and kitchenette counters designed to survive daily home cooking rather than the lighter wear of a typical hotel room. Floor-to-ceiling glazing in the harbour-facing units frames Victoria Harbour and the working piers of the Western District, a reminder that this stretch of the shoreline still functions as cargo and ferry infrastructure rather than purely as scenery. The split between two towers rather than one larger block also mirrors the plot constraints typical of reclaimed Western District land, where sites tend to be narrow and deep rather than square, pushing developers toward twin-tower or slab configurations instead of a single footprint.

Neighborhood & Transit Connections

The property sits along Hong Kong Island’s northern shoreline, within a few minutes’ walk of Sheung Wan MTR Station (exit C) on the Island Line, and close enough to the HKU and Sai Ying Pun stations to make either a viable alternative depending on the direction of travel. The Macau Ferry Terminal at Shun Tak Centre is roughly a ten-minute walk east, running high-speed ferries across the Pearl River Delta to Macau and mainland Guangdong ports — a route Hong Kong residents use for weekend trips as routinely as a Kowloon commute. Hong Kong’s tram line also runs along Connaught Road West and Des Voeux Road West nearby, offering a slower, street-level alternative that still connects directly through to Central and beyond, entirely on an electric fleet that has never operated on diesel. For guests connecting onward within the Greater Bay Area, the Macau ferry route removes the need to route through the airport or the land border checkpoints at Shenzhen, which is part of why the terminal remains one of the busiest ferry piers under Hong Kong’s cross-boundary transport network rather than a niche tourist route.

History & Local Life

Sheung Wan’s western edge was where Chinese merchants set up trade after the British established Hong Kong in the 1840s, dealing in the staples that still define parts of the district today: dried seafood, rice, and traditional medicine. Des Voeux Road West, a short walk from the hotel, is still known locally as Dried Seafood Street, lined with shops trading salted fish and dried marine goods in a trade with roots going back around fifty years on this exact stretch, part of a wider seafood and medicine district that once counted more than a hundred shops along Bonham Strand and Ko Shing Street. Ko Shing Street itself, nicknamed Herbal Medicine Street, has operated as a wholesale hub for Chinese medicinal ingredients since the district’s earliest trading days and remains active today. Closer to the water, the Western Market building — an Edwardian red-brick structure completed in 1906, distinguished by striped “bandaged” brickwork on its corner towers and a granite entrance arch — is the oldest surviving market building in Hong Kong. Declared a monument in 1990 and converted into a crafts and retail complex the following year, it now houses tailors and fabric traders rather than the fresh produce vendors who worked there for most of the 20th century, a shift that traces the same commercial pressure reshaping much of the surrounding district.

Practical Information

Units are built for stays longer than a weekend, with fully equipped kitchenettes — induction cooktops, microwave-convection ovens, and integrated refrigeration — alongside weekly housekeeping, high-speed Wi-Fi, and 24-hour front desk service. On-site facilities include a self-service laundry room, a co-working and communal living space, and a gymnasium, plus a rooftop terrace with views over the harbour shipping lanes and the container and ferry traffic that still runs along this stretch of coastline. The combination of apartment-style self-sufficiency and hotel-style servicing is aimed squarely at travelers staying a week or more — relocating staff, extended business trips, or families wanting a working kitchen — rather than a one- or two-night visitor passing through Sheung Wan. That long-stay orientation also shows up in the surrounding retail mix: the streets nearest the property lean toward wet markets, hardware stores, and wholesale trading floors serving residents rather than the souvenir shops and short-stay convenience stores typical of Hong Kong’s more visitor-dense corridors.