Blogs from Hong Kong, Asia - page 9

les vacances commencent avec cette journée à la plage :)... read more

Nouvelle journée d'expédition avec moult bus et trains, dont le train rapide qui nous a menés directement à l'aéroport de Chengdu, et l'avion Avant l'atterrissage à HonKong Marlène avait déjà une centaine de photos des îles et des bateaux ... Tout s'est passé idéalement, sans retard ni problème On est arrives un peu tard à Hong kong, pas vraiment l'énergie pour une vraie sortie,juste un repas dans un restaurant étoilé par le Michelin ! Ous avons eu une pensée émue pour les touristes croises à Chengdu qui préparaient leur voyage à Juzhaigou, et le soulagement d'avoir maintenu notre plan vers le sud et de ne pas avoir succombé aux charmes de ces montagnes du nord Sichuan, qui nous auraient sans doute retenus plus que prévu... read more

Today we decided to venture out on the MTR and just go to the shopping malls where we could be in air con. It is very easy to operate the self serve ticket machines and it cost us the equivalent of 50c AUD each for a single trip, we only had to go three stations to Mong Kok, the shopping district. On the way back we decided to walk, and we finally saw a jewelers where I was finally able to get a charm for my bracelet. We also stopped for a while in the little park near the temple dedicated to the fishermen. We ended up catching the train again at Jordan just the stop before ours trying to find again the mall where we had a great lunch the other day, but there are ... read more

Up and about early, we had breakfast at "Number One Coffee". Clem ordered a "Chai Latte" for me but the girl heard "Soy latte" - needless to say I couldn't drink it as I don't like the taste of coffee, Breakfast was very good though and she replaced it with a cup of tea, and wouldn't accept any payment for it. We went on the "Big Bus Tour", we paid for the deluxe package which was two days plus a night tour ( the night tour is not hop on, hop off like the day. There were three lines, Blue around Kowloon, Green and Red around Hong Kong Island. By buying the deluxe package we got express check in on the "Peak Tram", which was great as the queques for this were so long, free "Star ... read more

I took a long, roundabout routing to get from Honolulu to Singapore because I found a decent priced (and, most importantly, upgradeable) ticket on American and Cathay Pacific. The route was Honolulu-Los Angeles-Hong Kong-Singapore, and I paid US$795 one-way plus 25,000 miles+$350 for an upgrade on HNL-LAX-HKG. As an added bonus, this routing included an 8.5-hour layover in Hong Kong. I arrived refreshed in HKG around 7.10am after almost 14 hours in the air on American's amazing Business Class seat in their B777-300ER. This seat is seriously comfortable and I actually had a good sleep on board. I even wore AA's comfy pajamas to sleep (a first; I usually decline pajamas). At Hong Kong Airport, I got through immigration and customs easily and I was on the Airport Express to HK Central in no time. After ... read more