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Thirty Houses, Hong Kong — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Thirty Houses is a near-vanished name for a few blocks of Hong Kong Island between Central and Tai Ping Shan, south of Hollywood Road.
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Where to stay in Thirty Houses
The practical side of choosing where to sleep.
Two streets set the choice here: Staunton Street, the old axis, or Bridges Street one block over. The tract is small. Rooms anywhere between Hollywood Road and Caine Road sit within a few minutes of Central on one side and the older lanes toward Tai Ping Shan on the other, which is the whole case for sleeping on this slice of Hong Kong Island.
Peel Street marks the eastern boundary. Cross it and the name stops.
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Staunton Street
Staunton Street is one of the two axes the old tract was measured along, so a bed on it sits in the middle of Thirty Houses rather than out at a boundary road. Few places to stay nearby — book ahead.Find hotels in Staunton StreetQuieter nights one block off the Staunton Street runBridges Street
Bridges Street is the tract's second axis and reaches the Hollywood Road edge in a short block, which keeps the antique-shop stretch close without putting a room on it. Few places to stay nearby — book ahead.Find hotels in Bridges StreetStays that want Central a few blocks from Peel StreetPeel Street edge
Peel Street closes Thirty Houses off on its eastern side, so a room here keeps the old tract behind it and the offices of Central within an easy walk ahead.Find hotels in Peel Street edgeHotel links are affiliate links: booking through them may earn us a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never affects how places are ranked. How this works
About Thirty Houses
What are the main landmarks in Thirty Houses?
Nothing here carries the name on a sign. What survives instead is a frame of streets: Hollywood Road along the northern edge, Caine Road to the south, Peel Street closing the east. Bridges Street and Staunton Street cross the middle as the two axes the old name was measured along, and walking either one end to end covers most of what Thirty Houses ever meant.
Tai Ping Shan lies past the western side.
What is the history of Thirty Houses?
Thirty Houses is a translation of an older Chinese name, not a street address. The tract it covered sits between Central and Tai Ping Shan, and the name has faded so far from ordinary use that it survives in written accounts rather than on any sign, boundary marker or letterbox in the area. Its extent was always approximate.
Roughly south of Hollywood Road, north of Caine Road, and west of Peel Street, with Staunton Street and Bridges Street holding the middle.
Where is Thirty Houses?
Thirty Houses covers a few blocks of Hong Kong Island inside the Central and Western District, between Central and Tai Ping Shan.
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What is the best area to stay in Thirty Houses?
Staunton Street: Walkers who want the Staunton Street axis on the doorstep. Bridges Street: Quieter nights one block off the Staunton Street run. Peel Street edge: Stays that want Central a few blocks from Peel Street.
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Updated September 2026