Travelling to Hong Kong

El1te said:
Very interesting point mate, I'm checking https://www.airbnb.co.uk and there is one apartment which caters for 4 people, for the period we're looking to stay this is working out at like £20 per person a night. Surely I'd have thought an apartment would cost more than hotel!?
Click to expand...

Well, it depends how big those apartments are. My cousin lives in an "apartment", a family of 4 and our room in Royal Park Hotel is bigger than their entire apartment.

For 3 people sharing a family room for long stay (7+ days), I think it would work out about £30-35 a night each?
 
There certainly wasn't much room in the one I stayed in, that's for sure :P was a single room with everything in and a very interesting shower built into the corner.
 
Raymond Lin said:
Well, it depends how big those apartments are. My cousin lives in an "apartment", a family of 4 and our room in Royal Park Hotel is bigger than their entire apartment.

For 3 people sharing a family room for long stay (7+ days), I think it would work out about £30-35 a night each?
Click to expand...

I will email those hotels too and enquire mate, thanks!

The apartment in question is on Fa Yuen Street, Prince Edward, Hong Kong. The owner just got back to me via email and has said it's about $100 USD per night, and it can accomodate 4 people. It looks a bit cramped mind you, but she has bigger apartments for £130 for the night, just waiting to see those.
 
Ask for some photos but I would bet that is a shoebox and the extra £10 per night (£100 over the entire trip) is worth it to stay at somewhere like Royal Park.

It would be more comfortable, clean room everyday, a bath, free bottled water, wifi and a gym and pool to use should you want to.
 
Raymond Lin said:
Ask for some photos but I would bet that is a shoebox and the extra £10 per night (£100 over the entire trip) is worth it to stay at somewhere like Royal Park.

It would be more comfortable, clean room everyday, a bath, free bottled water, wifi and a gym and pool to use should you want to.
Click to expand...

Very true, makes sense to probably stick with a hotel. Like you said, they should accomodate our needs for 3 people too.
 
El1te said:
http://www.royalpark.com.hk/promotion_room.html?pp=p9

Works out about £125 per night for this room, about £42 for one person. This looks like the best option at the moment!
Click to expand...

:)

and that top photo with that view out the window, its not CGI, I've seen that view ! lol

There is a direct bus that goes from downstairs of the hotel to and from the airport. It stops outside the hotel.
 
Raymond Lin said:
:)

and that top photo with that view out the window, its not CGI, I've seen that view ! lol

There is a direct bus that goes from downstairs of the hotel to and from the airport. It stops outside the hotel.
Click to expand...

Haha, it looked too good to be true, I think hotel is set, lets hope both my mates are still up for this!

Raymond one question, what's the best way to get access to cash? Would it be better to take some GBP from here and convert it there as I need it or/and is Visa Debit accepted there?
 
El1te said:
Haha, it looked too good to be true, I think hotel is set, lets hope both my mates are still up for this!

Raymond one question, what's the best way to get access to cash? Would it be better to take some GBP from here and convert it there as I need it or/and is Visa Debit accepted there?
Click to expand...

I take some cash, mostly for food and paying the taxi driver.

There are cashpoints everywhere, and VISA Debit works, although you may want to tell your bank you are going there. One year mine got rejected by the machine because I forgot to tell them beforehand(Barclays).

Get yourself a Halifax Clarity card and use that to buy things in malls. Then you don't need to carry around as much cash.

If you want to change currency, I found the best rates was to change it when you get over there and do it in the bank. Although it does mean you have the queue for bloody ages, their banks always have queues.
 
Cheers, I'm with Barclays too so I guess I'll call them up. Did you get charged for using the barclays card there?

The clarity card seems like a good idea too, less hassle!

Any banks near Royal Park Hotel?
 
Royal Park Hotel is attach, and I mean attach, to a shopping centre which has Muji (if you have only been to the UK one, go to the one here, they sell wacky food stuff!), a food Court, KFC, Starbucks and then that is attached to another enormous shopping centre (7 levels, it has a supermarket, GAP, 2 Starbucks, Maccy D, another food court etc etc etc) which has a few cash point, and if not, that shopping centre is attached to the MTR which I know for a fact has cash points.

If one evening you want to head back home early and have a couple of hours to kill, that mall will keep you busy and you are just downstairs from your room. It has a really nice Japanese Restaurant that I love call Watami http://www.watami.com.hk/en/ as well.

If you are feeling homesick, there is a M&S there too ! not far from Victoria's Secret :p

Cafe De Coral has a branch there too.

Which btw, most malls closes at 10pm, which brings me to another thing, most stores operate a funny opening hours, not 9-5, more like 11am to 10pm. Almost everything opens until late, nothing really closes at 5pm.
 
Last edited:
I've stayed in City view, was meant to be for 2 nights ended up over a week (thank icelantic volcano... better than sleeping in the airport!). Was really nice, location very good. Short walk to the ladies market, easy walk to the star ferry
 
When I was working over there, work put me up into regal riverside that was very good and out of the way. But hella expensive for me (good thing they paid for it xD). Its opposite the river bit from Royal Park so its close to there too, just a short walk away.

Avoid mirador/chunking mansion based "hotels", they are budget... but like proper budget with free cockroaches and no windows :p. Had to stay there for few weeks... was... interesting experience xD.
 
Langham Place hotel is nice, but seems to have gotten a lot more expensive over the years - I remember paying approximately £70-90 a night before - seems to be close to double that now.

Cosmopolitan hotel is also good, a bit cheaper but further to walk to MTR stations (Causeway Bay / Wan Chai)

Most hotels in HK you can't really go wrong with as long as the reviews on tripadvisor are decent - public transport is excellent so as long as there's a MTR station within walking distance you'll be fine :)

I normally stay in SZ these days for work during the week - HK for weekends
 
Thanks for all the help again guys!

Quick question, anyone gone to HK on their own? If so, how was it or would I get bored?
 
El1te said:
Thanks for all the help again guys!

Quick question, anyone gone to HK on their own? If so, how was it or would I get bored?
Click to expand...

When I went last month I was on my own. To be honest, 8 days was enough for me. I got bored after 5 days but I spent the remaining days looking for and going to different beaches.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom