$30 is too much. I stayed there for $7-$10. Hint: negotiate in languages other than English, yes, tens of languages are spoken in that building, with "hoteliers" from every continent.

Fascinating, I wish my German was better. The Broad Group is potentially building their 220 floor building [1] which would seem like something you could do in Hong Kong and profit quite handsomely from. I suspect though that the Broad group is thinking about this sort of environment as a potential result.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad_Group

There's a few tourist tours of the mansions as well. It's been described as a smaller, nicer, friendlier version of Kowloon Walled City with licensed dentists.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chungking_Mansions

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_walled_city

Have you stayed there?

Stayed right next door in another "Mansion" place -- with my whole 5-person family. Had a great time. We got one of the few family-sized rooms. Big enough for two beds + a bathroom. And if one person got out of the way, the other could walk through the room. Plus, when we asked the housekeeper, she gave us a third mattress and extra towel!

Actually, the kids loved it -- the previous two nights we stayed in a Teepee on a beach. First night great. By the second night we'd had enough of the mosquitoes and rugby-playing boy scouts. By comparison, the Mansion was "Mom, Dad, there are no mosquitoes! And it's so quiet when we close the windows! And air conditioning!" They didn't want to leave the room for two days.

Had to tell the kids not to wander the building without us though.

I have, as a young oblivious backpacker. I chuckled. As far as I remember, the room was basically a broom closet with just enough room for a single bed and the door to swing open. Downstairs was ... interesting. But I enjoyed my mansion :)

I've stayed there, too. I felt like I was living in the movie Blade Runner.

No, but I've heard stories.

Don't even have to leave the building to buy hashish.