The Fleming Hong Kong
Art Deco Meets Nautical Nostalgia on the Harbour
Ocean Liners Reimagined
Once a ’70s concrete box, The Fleming has been reborn as a sleek, deeply intentional homage to Hong Kong’s most democratic cultural icon — the Star Ferry. The design is not a theme — it is a point of view. Every surface feels informed by maritime heritage: Streamline Moderne curves, lacquered wood, rivet-like brass hardware, and geometric lines that recall the Art Deco terminals that once defined the harbour crossing. It is rare to see a hotel take one of the city’s most ordinary symbols — a ferry that locals ride for spare change — and elevate it into a complete cultural vocabulary. At The Fleming, that translation feels not nostalgic, but exacting — and almost cinematic.
Harbour-Hued Interiors
Inside, The Fleming is tonal, tactile, and atmospheric. Woods are warm, not glossy. Brass is brushed, not flashy. Greens, navies, and creamy deckchair tones play against each other like sea and sun and oxidised metal. The lobby and common spaces balance industrial grit with maritime elegance — a Hong Kong that remembers itself. And unlike many of the city’s cookie-cutter business hotels, here the design goes all the way down to the smallest gestures: door signs that resemble ship telegraphs. Vintage-style dials and toggles. A signature scent that blends sandalwood and amber and instantly taps the limbic system.
Your Cabin
Guestrooms channel ferry cabins, but edited through a contemporary, efficient, beautifully restrained lens. Rounded corners and industrial lighting soften the geometry. Bottle green wall panelling and narrow stripes reference deck rails and maritime uniforms. The rooms are not large — this is still Hong Kong — but they are composed with purpose. USB docks, Apple TV, walk-in rain showers, Shen Nong bath amenities formulated like a modern apothecary. It’s a quiet exercise in conceptual exactitude: an homage, not a theme park.
Osteria Marzia: Coastal Italy on Victoria Harbour
The hotel’s restaurant goes fully Mediterranean — not to imitate Hong Kong street food, but to complement it. If you want congee, you go outside. If you want to be transported to coastal Italy, you stay here: crudo in natural light, handmade pastas, grilled fish, aperitifs on ice, all layered within a dining room that feels like a Capri yacht club reframed through Wan Chai. A space that pushes the fantasy forward, because design — like the ferry itself — can be a conduit to elsewhere.
DNA Hotels Verdict
The Fleming is pure story architecture — a boutique hotel with a thesis, not a gimmick. It stands in a city of business boxes and five-star sameness and does something much more interesting: it remembers. It reinterprets. It tells Hong Kong’s harbour story through form, material, scent, and mood. It is design that is culturally literate — and emotionally resonant. A rare example of a hotel that knows exactly who it is — and why.
