Panda Hotel (), formerly Kowloon Panda Hotel (), is a hotel in

Tsuen Wan Tsuen Wan (formerly also spelled Tsun Wan) is a New towns of Hong Kong, town built on a bay in the New Territories West (constituency), western New Territories of Hong Kong, opposite Tsing Yi, Tsing Yi Island across Rambler Channel. The market ...

New Territories The New Territories (N.T., Traditional Chinese characters, Chinese: ) is one of the three areas of Hong Kong, alongside Hong Kong Island and Kowloon. It makes up 86.2% of Hong Kong's territory, and contains around half of the population of H ...

Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...

, located between

MTR The Mass Transit Railway system, known locally by the initialism MTR, is a rapid transit system in Hong Kong and the territory's principal mode of Rail transport in Hong Kong, railway transportation. Operated by the MTR Corporation (MTRCL), ...

Tsuen Wan station Tsuen Wan () is an MTR station on the . It is the only station on the Tsuen Wan line at ground level. It is located in the northern central part of Tsuen Wan New Town, New Territories West. The preceding station is . It was the westernmost ...

and

Tai Wo Hau station Tai Wo Hau () is an MTR station between Tsuen Wan and Kwai Hing stations on the . It serves the areas of Kwai Yin Court and Tai Wo Hau Estate in the Kwai Tsing District, and some resited villages (such as Kwan Mun Hau Tsuen) in the Tsuen W ...

. It is the largest hotel in

Tsuen Wan District Tsuen Wan District is one of the 18 districts of Hong Kong. It is located in the New Territories and is served by the Tsuen Wan line of the MTR metro system. Its area is 60.7 km2. Its residents, who mostly live in Tsuen Wan Town, enjo ...

, with a total of 1,026 rooms. It is developed, owned and managed by

Hopewell Holdings Hopewell Holdings Limited () is a major property developer in Hong Kong established in 1972 and headed by Sir Gordon Wu. History Hopewell Holdings was established on 17 October 1972. It was listed on the Hong Kong stock exchanges in 1972 and ...

Panda Place

Panda Place () is a

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inside the Panda Hotel. It occupies at the second floor, ground floor and three

basement A basement is any Storey, floor of a building that is not above the grade plane. Especially in residential buildings, it often is used as a utility space for a building, where such items as the Furnace (house heating), furnace, water heating, ...

levels beneath the hotel. It is also owned by Hopewell Holdings. Panda Place was formerly the

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ese

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Yaohan or ; () was a Japanese retail group, founded in 1930 by and his wife . Initially a single shop selling vegetables, it was expanded by their son Kazuo Wada into a major supermarket chain with most retail outlets located in Shizuoka prefecture, ...

's Tsuen Wan Branch. The site became vacant after Yaohan collapsed during the

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in 1997. In 2005, Hopewell redeveloped and renamed the premises.Hopewell Holdings Limited Annual Results 2005
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* Hotel buildings completed in 1990 Hotels in Hong Kong Hopewell Holdings Tsuen Wan Tsuen Wan District Hotels established in 1990 {{Asia-hotel-stub