Kornhill Apartments

Stayed here for 2 months in two of the older studio apartments with kitchen: Good: - Fair price for a 400sf Studio unit with kitchen - Great location. Above Tai Koo MTR and 3-story Jusco department store and supermarket. Lots of buses to choose to go anywhere. Big oceanfront park nearby (MTR D1 exit). Cheaper wet and outdoor markets nearby. Lots and lots of restaurants and shops. Super convenient!! - Management was polite and speedy service when needed - Overall, despite all the negativities, family loved this service apartment. Would recommend to anyone! . . Bad: - COCKROACH!!! We swatted a couple the first weeks we arrived. We didn't complain to management yet they performed pest extermination for the whole floor, possibly whole building. Obviously this is a wide-spread problem as someone else notified management. - CLOGGED DRAINS in both the bathroom and kitchen sinks. Shouldn't be too hard to fix yet management didn't do anything with both our units, probably to entice you to much more expensive renovated units. We can live with slow draining sinks.... - FIRE EXITS ARE LOCKED!! In case of a fire, you will sure be like smoked salmons if not BBQ porks! There are fire sprinklers in each room but still.... Not sure why there's a need to lock the stairs. The laundry room is on the 21st floor. If you live on the 17th floor like we did, you have to take the elevator down to the Ground floor, go across to the opposite side and take another elevator to the 21st. Vice versa, going back down to the 17th floor from the 21st is first take the lift down to the Ground floor, go across to the other side and take the lift to the 17th floor. You can't walk down from the 18th floor to the 17th because the STAIRS (FIRE EXITS) ARE LOCKED. Very sure that is against fire department regulations.... There is a freight elevator that goes to every floor but it's extremely slow moving!! - LCD-TV is extremely dark. The reason being both of our room's TV were set to ECO mode. Disable eco mode and set the quality preset to Standard and the TV is back to normal, not the brightest but bright enough for watching. Management is sensitive about saving power but you have the option to leave the air-con running 24 hours a day. :D Any electronics that are plugged onto the wall-plug are also not affected by the main power button by the door. The main power switch only turns off two tiny lights and the induction stove. LOL!! - We were lucky our two months stay our neighbours were very quiet. You do very clearly hear people talking in the hallway but that's very normal in every apartment or hotel. Our last week of stay we realized the walls are actually quite thin because our new neighbour have kids and we can hear them talk and play. Bummer :D - Each unit comes with a WiFi router but they are pretty bad. Bring your own router! Broadband connection is only 100Mbps, so don't expect miracles but least it's quite stable :P We had no problems playing MMORPG.