Apologies for the overdue review! Just want to say that even though my girl friend and myself has been to HK only for 4 days 3 nights, it was an awesome experience. We didn't managed to cover a lot of places as we spent a day in Macau itself.
We bought our air tickets from tiger airways and it's my first time on a budget airline in Singapore. My last flight on an internal budget airline in Korea was a really bad. We were squashed side by side like how you stand in the MRT during a peak hours. You have no space on the side as well as the leg portion. Good thing was the flight was less than an hour and we slept through the whole journey. Initially, I was against tiger but after heard from my girl friend that it is as bad as what I though, I have decided to give it another try. Yes, it wasn't so bad just that we had no blankets during the journey and it was freezing cold. No food as well. Imagine $5 for instant noodles?! The whole journey took us about 4 hours and finally we were at Hong Kong airport!
You think taking budget airline is horror? Wait till you reach Hong Kong airport... We had to walk 10mins to the sky train and from the sky train, walk another 10 mins to the check out counter. No, it's not the end yet. We queued literally 1 hour to just get out of the arrival counter to retrieve our luggage. It was pure horror for me as I have never in my life experienced such a massive crowd before.
Two things in mind when you are in Hong Kong.
- You will spend half your time in a queue.
- You will guaranteed be squash in the crowd many times during the journey.
Finally when we were out, we went to find our tour agent to get a free ride to the hotel. We purchased our deal from deals.com.sg. Please look out where your hotel is before purchase as we didn't our original hotel was located in Tsing Yi. It was an almost inaccessible from where we were, so I had to head down to the travel agency and asked for a change of hotel. Of course it doesn't come free, so we have to top up additional $61 per person to move to Cosmo Mongkok Hotel (Mongkok). We were fine with the top up and would have gone with the upgrade anyways.
All hotels in Hong Kong are said to be really small and it is really small. No more than 2 people per room. We gotten ourselves a pretty decent room. The toilet was the open concept kinda of style which lacks a little privacy as the glass doors are semi translucent and no locks. There is free wifi on the ground level of our small hotel. The staffs there are friendly and able to speak in Chinese. I believe they could manage English as well as I've seen quite a handful of Caucasians around. Cosmos MongKok Hotel is about 10mins walk away from Olympic Station and about 15mins walk away from MongKok Station. We found out later that taxi are relatively cheap in Hong Kong and it's pretty safe to take them, we abused it quite a lot over the next 4 days in our trip.
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| That's the semi translucent toilet behind me. |
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| Overall Room Size |
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| Street life around our hotel area |
August is the school holiday season as well as the sales season in Hong Kong, do expect a larger crowd in general. We went to the night market at Temple street, it's almost like a blend of bugis street and pasar malam in Singapore. Personally, I don't think there is a lot of things to purchase there but interesting to walk around. My Hong Kong friend mentioned that is a tourist spot, most locals don't go there to shop at all. They can be quite rowdy with Caucasians, to get them to their stalls.
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| Goose noodles! Not found in Singapore. Almost like Duck though. |
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| Super yummy Oyster with egg |
Shopping for clothes are generally much more expensive in Singapore somehow, even though they have sales. We shopped mainly at Tsim Sa Tsui as it's like Orchard road in Singapore. Try out their yummy street food! Smelly tofu and their famous mango desserts.
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| Stuffing our faces with mango desserts at 许留山 Hui Lao Shan |
Alright! That was all for Day One. Read down for Day Two! :)
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