Hong Kong’s Ying’nFlo embraces a low-key version of hotel life

Design studio Linehouse set out to ‘break the hotel narrative of serious spaces and strict boundaries’ with Hong Kong guesthouse Ying’nFlo.

The polished apartment hotel takes over a high-rise in Hong Kong’s Wan Chai district, with muted tones and apartment-style rooms that lend the hotel a laid-back atmosphere and gives guests a sense of home comfort – emphasised by the lack of a check-in desk or staff (visitors use an app instead).

Linehouse chose a palette of terracotta, white, beige and grey to create a supremely serene set of rooms, offset by interesting shapes – think reeded furniture, saucer-esque wall lamps and rainbow-shaped floor lights. The studio describes the aesthetic as ‘curated simplicity’.

Even the hotel’s communal spaces are designed with the home in mind, laid out as a series of connected rooms that encourage a ‘seamless flow’. One of these, The Collectors Room, is designed as a kind of gallery filled with artworks and objects and located next to an outdoor courtyard. There’s also Ying’nFlo’s Music Room, which is intended as a place for guests to lounge on sofas and socialise.

The hotel offers several sizes of rooms, starting at around HK$1,200 per night, including a kitchenette.

3-5 Wan Chai Gap Rd, Wan Chai, Hong Kong

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