"Hong Kong Cigar Shop Guide": places to buy cigars in Hong Kong
"Hong Kong Cigar Shop Guide": places to buy cigars in Hong Kong
I'll start from Wanchai and Causeway Bay area. Hope this helps!
1. Name: Kinlonz Cigar whisky Shop
Add：2/F, 19 Lan Fong Road, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong(Next to Lee Garden I shopping Mall)
Tel：+852 28915600
Website: http://www.kinlonz.com
Opening Hours：12:00 noon-10pm(Mon-Sat)
12:00 noon -20:00(Sun, holidays)
Comments: This cigar store was opened in early 2009, with great selection of Cuban cigars. According to the manager, the founder of this club is a long-time cigar smoker and decided to transform his office into a private cigar club for one big reason: Hong Kong's smoking ban in July 2009. Well, that’s a good and luxuary solution for a smoker.
Smoking Room: Yes
Lockers: Yes
VIP Room: NO
Wireless Lan: Yes
Value for money(10):9
Smoking room(10):6
Location(10):10
Services(10):8
Total Scores: 35/40
2. Name: Cigar TimeADD: 1/F., The Excelsior, Hong Kong, 281 Gloucester Road, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong.
Tel: +852 2882 6928
Opening Hours: (Mon - Sat) 11:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m.
(Sun & Public holiday) 12:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Comments: Just 5 minutes away from Club Cigarism, Cigar Time is located in Excelsior Hotel 1/F. This tiny store sells their cigars mainly to hotel's customers, as well as customers from Dickson's Bar. Local smokers seldom buy here since the cigars and accessories are over-pricing. Cigar Time try to justify their pricing strategy by explaining that their source of cigars is Pacific Cigars Company(PCC). Well, since I can get a 30% off from their supplier, what is the point of buying from Cigar Time then? But I do think that Cigar Time is smart to focus their taget customers on tourists.
In spite of the hyper prices, one good development about Cigar Time is that they opened their members-only smoking room inside the hotel in 2009, the room has about 8 seats with high-ceiling and very nicely ventilated.
Smoking Room: Yes, members only
Lockers: Yes
VIP Room: No
Wireless Lan: No
TV, DVD: TV only
Printing&Fax: No
Value for money(10):4
Smoking room(10):6
Location(10):9
Services(10):7
Total Scores: 26/40
3. Name: AcantaComments: Owned by Bluebell Group, the exclusive distributor for Davidoff for Hong Kong market. Acanta store is located at the lobby of Parklane hotel, 5 minutes away from the metro station. I always have the impression that all cigar stores in the hotels are over-pricing, and this is proved by Acanta again. However, comparing with Cigar Time, Acanta has better quality of cigars and standard of storage.
This store is good for buy and go only since they have no smoking room.
Add：Shop D4, Parklane Hotel. Causeway Bay
Tel：+852 2576 7665
Smoking Room: No(but you can still smoke at the opposite George and Co Bar before July 2009)
Lockers: No
VIP Room: No
Wireless Lan: No
TV, DVD: No
Printing&Fax: No
Value for money(10):5
Smoking room(10): N/A
Location(10):8
Services(10):8
Total Scores: 21/30
Reference: more Bluebell cigar stores: (http://www.bluebellgroup.com/hk/shoplist/):
Davidoff(The Landmark) Shop G12, The Landmark, Queen's Road, Central
2525 5428
Davidoff(The Peninsula) Shop E3A, Peninsula Hotel, Salisbury Road, Kowloon 2368 5774
New World Centre Shop L144, New World Centre, Salisbury Road, Kowloon
2721 5520
Acanta
Gateway Arcade Shop 3323, Gateway Arcade, Harbour City, Tsimshatsui, Kowloon 2175 5169
4. Name Cigarros Inn(Closed)Comments: All my local cigar friends simply call this store "4/F", and never call it by name for 2 reasons. Firstly since people have to "climb"' up 4 floors to get to the shop(this building has no lift), and secondly because we don't think a store selling fakes deserves a name.
At my first-time visit in 2006, I was so happy about the choices of the EL cigars they had in the store. However, I found that many of them had no 3-caps, and even found some Montecristo EL 2000 with a new label on. Out of curiosity, I bought some and tried, well...fakes!!
After so many years, they are still selling fakes, but mainly to tourists from mainland China(especially who speak Mandarin). Cigarros Inn is the only cigar store I would suggest NOT going in Hong Kong, unless you have no choices.
Add: 4th Floor, 22 Russell Street, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
Tel: +852 28388687
website: http://www.cigaros-inn.com/e/default_home.asp
Smoking Room: Yes
Lockers: Yes
Wireless Lan: No
TV, DVD: Yes
Printing&Fax: No
Value for money(10):0
Smoking room(10):6
Location(10):4
Services(10):8
Total Scores: 18/40
Copyrighted: Fred Leung
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