Geo: 22.33, 114.1812th April, 2017 Went for a walk to the shopping mall, 10am nothing open so found a bank to withdraw some money and walked back to the Hotel. Met with Robyn and Steve and they found yesterday just as good as us, buying a heap of stuff as well. Will meet with them at 6.30pm tonight and catch a Taxi to the Happy Valley Races, they had a bag of washing to do and had found a laundry down the street who charge by the weight, 1lb for 10 HK $ and can pick up at 4pm today. $1.71 Au, we will do this ourselves before we leave.Took the Courtesy Bus to the Ladies Market, huge and no where near as crowded when we went on the weekend, spent heaps but picked up some ... read more

Geo: 22.3214, 114.173Coffee at McDonalds, then caught the courtesy bus to China Terminal then the 973 bus to Stanley, had lunch and relaxed at the cafes walked through the market.  Linen was amazing but will wait until we see Shenzhen and what we can get from there.  People from here are also going but with a different company so will be interesting to see if we catch up on our tour.  We all had drinkies in the lounge and caught up with everyone, really good 2 hour catch up the elderly couple 75 years old are off at mid night from Perth going to Barcelona for 3 nights and then a cruise to Norway for 12 nights.  Hard life but hell we could get used to it they were just not leaving until 12am so booked ... read more

Geo: 22.3214, 114.1735th April, 2017We went for coffee to McDonalds across the street and Mick recognised the Head teacher from the Yarram High School, Lyn and Lynette arrived in Hong Kong on Saturday, small world. We run into the four from Pakenham quite often, twin sisters who married brothers, usually meet them all in the lounge at 4pm free wine and snacks, no beer so we bring our own. They leave tomorrow for Bali their brothers 50th birthday.Mick booked us on the Victoria Harbour Dinner cruise for tonight, picked up at the Hotel and dropped back, cannot wait to see the Symphony of Lights on the Harbour while cruising, hard life!Great buffet and the cruise on the Harbour was nice, the lights did not come up to expectation but wonder if it was because of the ... read more

Geo: 1.28941, 103.856th October, 2016Luckily we have had a free mobile phone to use while we are here, I locked myself out of the Salary Sacrifice last night, but this morning rang ANZ and all fixed with a new password. Wanted to take it easy today knowing we fly tomorrow at 10.45am so we did not leave the Hotel until 11am, catching a taxi to the Gardens by the Bay to see the Flower Dome. As we approached the ticket counter a teacher approached us with a heap of tickets she bought for her students that did not work out, so was selling as many as she could. We picked up a ticket each for $10 and saved $20 between us. The Flower Dome was beautiful but not as good as the Forest Dome and we ... read more

Geo: 1.28941, 103.854th October, 2016Up at 7.30am for a swim this morning and off to Suntek Station to catch a bus and have a look at the Observation Deck of Skypark, we were hoping to go to the Zoo but that bus was not leaving for another half hour.This place was truly amazing, we stepped off the Red Bus at the Marina Bay Sands and could not walk to the area to get to the Observation Deck of Skypark because the cleaners where cleaning the footpath. Instead we took a lift up and a security guard advised us to walk around the Gardens by the Bay and when we return the cleaners would be finished.We took a walk into a place that was so different and incredible, found a cart to take us to where we ... read more