Stayed in California Hotel few days ago for my birthday. The hotel is actually new and they were even renovating the place.

The location is inside Golden Crown Court along Nathan Road. Some people tend to get lost finding this place because you wouldn't notice the entrance, but we knew exactly where it is because of google earth. It's only a few meters away from the MTR. There are a lot of restaurants in the area as well. Malls are just walking distance. Perfect place in Tsim Sha Tsui.

From the airport, take bus A21 (make sure to buy 2 way ticket because its cheaper) and it will take you 1 block away from the building. Going back to the airport, you just have to cross the street and take the same bus.

Rooms are very small but it's how it is in Hong Kong. We have to place our luggage under our beds to have 'space'. Bathroom is small as well. The toilet is just beside the shower. Regardless, we slept pretty well. They regularly change your sheets and towels too.

Over all, the place is very clean, very convenient, and the staffs are very friendly.

There are total of three of us in this trip and the room that they provided us was big enough for the three of us. Hotel rooms in HK are always small so can't really complain much unless you are willing to pay $200+ in SG for a night. But basic necessities are provided : Clean bed, new towels changed everyday and space for us to put our luggage. Once negative point was the hotel is not smoking free so smoking is allowed in the air-conditioned environment which i personally cannot stand it. I suggest that the owner of the hotel cather a room specially for smoking for the benefit of non-smoking guests.

We booked this hotel because of the location, cost and because it offered a family room. On arrival, at 1.30 in the morning, the hotel couldn't find our booking, although we could clearly see our name written down in the arrivals book! The receptionist didn't know what to do so made a phone call to someone who instructed him to give us a full refund so that we could go and find alternative accommodation. By now it was 2.30 in the morning, we have 2 children and have never been to Hong Kong before so obviously this was not a suitable solution, we explain this to the member of staff who then suggested we could stay in the one room that was available - a single bedded room, by this time we were willing to compromise and went to look at the room. The room was down a corridor which was full of workmanship tools and even had a wheelbarrow in it! The room itself was tiny with the smallest single bed that I have every seen, my husband and I couldn't stand by the side of the bed and close the door - obviously unsuitable for 4 people to stay in. At this point our patience was running out, we had a child asleep in the hotel lobby and the other one worrying that we would be sleeping on the street in Hong Kong, we explained to the receptionist that he would need to find us alternative accommodation to which his reply was that he didn't think he would be able to find us anything. I encouraged him to try and he made a phone call, he was very cuffed with himself when he said that he had found something - a room in the guest house across the road which "old and not very nice" I am sure you can imagine our reaction!

It was at this point that we contacted our booking agent - Agoda - who were very helpful and eventually found us alternative accommodation.

I would not recommend that anyone stay in this, I use this term loosely, hotel.