Queen's Hotel / Occidental Hotel / Royal George Hotel / Palace Hotel [1901-c.1945]

The Palace Hotel was situated on 43-44 Haiphong Road at the junction with Hankow Road. Appreciate if the marker could be nudged to the junction. Thanks.

The many friends of Mr. R. E. Hall, who for the last few years has promoted numerous boxing exhibitions at the City Hall, will be pleased to hear that he has acquired the proprietorship of the Palace (formerly the Royal George) Hotel at Kowloon. Extensive alterations have been made, costing a large sum of money. Part of the hotel is now open and has a private sitting room upstairs, a private lounge with a billiard table and a public bar also with a billiard table. The residential part of the hotel is now in the hands of the contractors and as soon as the necessary work is finished it will be opened for occupation.

Source: Hong Kong Telegraph 10 November 1915 and advertisement on 15 November 1915.

Additional Information:

(1) The Carl Smith Collection notes the Palace Hotel was bombed and wrecked during the Pacific War.

(1) Royal George Hotel 1911-1915

The new hotel, which bears the appropriate name "The Royal George Hotel", is situated at the corner of Haiphong and Hankow Roads in the premises formerly known as the Occidental Hotel. The building, which has been renovated and brought up to date, comprises some 35 rooms, which are well lighted, airy and comfortable. Each room has a bathroom attached, and all the requisite conveniences provided. There is a spacious dining room, tea parlours, billiard room etc, and the proprietors, Messrs. Ruttonjee, have left nothing undone to  make the place comfortable and pleasant for boarders. It is also intended to cater for afternoon tea parties. The charges are moderate.

Source: Hong Kong Daily Press 2 November 1911

(2) Occidental Hotel 1903-1911

In 1907, the Carl Smith Collection noted the Occidental Hotel was then located on 39-44 Elgin Road, Kowloon.  It would appear that a street re-numbering exercise occurred in later years when Elgin Road became Haiphong Road.

(3) Queen's Hotel 1901-1903

In 1903, the proprietor, H. Ruttonjee elected to lease the Queen's Hotel to interested parties. In an article in the Hong Kong Telegraph on 6 March 1903 here (scroll to Page 5), mention is made that the new Hotel took 18 months to erect  when it opened in November 1901.

Think the Palace Hotel can be seen left of the red rectangle on the photo below:

Also think that on the place where the hotel stood, the buildings at 51-57 Hankow Road, Kowloon [c.1948- ] were constructed.

I was possibly wrong in assuming that the Queen's Hotel was visible on the 1927 photo. The white building is probably located south of the hotel obscuring it. An aerial photo from 1930, taken at a different angle, probably shows the hotel behind the building seen on the 1927 photo.

Update: The hotel is probably still further north than initially thought, it could be the second building north of the white one. See the building in the blue circle below;