With its convenient location above the Kowloon transit center and the adjoining upscale shopping complex Elements, the Kowloon-side W hotel and the Ritz make for good meeting spots for jet-set travelers before they rush off to check in downstairs for their next flight.

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For meat-and-potatoes diners, Morton's of Chicago (2732-2343) has opened a restaurant in the Sheraton hotel in Kowloon.

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The Metropark Hotel in Kowloon.

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We checked in at the Hotel Nikko in Kowloon.

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Hong Kong's Kowloon Metropark (formerly the Metropole), the Hong Kong hotel that had the first reported SARS case in the city, declined an interview request.

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