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Published: October 17th 2007
Homeless in Hong Kong!!!!
Now we have to search for a bed for the night!!!Finally arrived on Hong kong Island at 2.30pm.....
We'd booked to stay the night in the Wang Fat Hostel.
A fellow traveller noticed us looking harassed and lost.
He told us that if we were looking for Wang Fat hostel,
that it is now known as the Hong Kong Hostel and pointed us in the right direction.
He also informed us that they were fully booked, as he had just tried to book in.
When we finally got there it was mayhem, bags and people everywhere.
Confidently, we handed over our confirmation, only to be told,
"NO ROOM"!!!! No explanation - Nothing.
That was it - Final straw and all that....
The shit hit the fan!
"We'd paid a deposit"!!!
"You had my telephone number - Why didn't you ring"?
"What are we supposed to do now?" They didn't care and literally threw back the deposit.
We decided to go in search of another hostel.
But where do we start......
Then I remembered a hostel I'd looked at and discounted,
because of a review saying "there
Home sweet home
En suite with air con too, what more could we ask for....... were whores and pimps using the lift at night"!
This was the Garden Hostel and located in Kowloon.
Let's go there......
Arrived there, only to bump into the guy we saw earlier.
He'd been to loads of different hostels and had finally got a room here.
He told us that there was a major conference going on and that all the hostels were booked solid with business men.
Said it's because the hotels were so expensive.
With fingers crossed we asked for a room.....
Yes - One double, en-suite left.
How lucky was that!!!!
We were shown our room....
It looked a bit like a gents toilet with all the tiling up the walls.
But it was clean, had a shower that worked and it was only for one night.
Didn't bother to unpack, freshened up a bit and hit the sights.....
After a late night and good sleep, we gathered our stuff together and left it in reception.
Then headed off for more sight seeing and to book our ferry to Macau for later that day.
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Jane
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How very Biblical!
No room at the inn, eh?? The hostel looks lovely! So what have people got against pimps and whores, then? [blank look, must get out more. Or not.] We're about to have a frost tonight, so you're in the right place at the mo. It all looks terribly clean... is that right? And how are you doing for travel spinach?? Don't use your left hand for chopsticks: I did when I was there 100 years ago, and was corrected during a meal several times, by the old lady serving the food - it meant I was a whore! [for those reading this, NO I WAS N O T.... never had to pay for it in me life...] Now, ahem, [waits for face to stop glowing] don't drink the water, don't eat the food, and keep yer hands on yer wallets! Oh, and it bucketed down yesterday, so you deffo ARE in the right place! Cheers and greetings from all at Oxfam, Jane