Excellent Hong Kong Hotel

Advantages: Great transportation links
Disadvantages: none

...When trying to decide on a hotel for our trip to Hong Kong we did a lot of research and opted for the Metro Park Hotel in Causeway bay rather than its sister hotel in Kowloon. This was mainly due to its location in a quieter part of town and its superb transport links. The hotel is roughly three quarters of an hour from the airport and the bus to the airport stops at the door of the hotel, as our transport was included we did not use that option. It is well located too with the MTR station being just along the road, the trams passing the end of the road and the bus to Stanley also just a short walk away. The hotel also runs free transport to Causeway Bay shopping area and also Wan Chai for the conference centre and star ferry. The hotel has car parking on the ground floor and you enter the reception on the first floor by lift...

elspeth334 06.04.2008 · Read review
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Swimming pool

Advantages: something new
Disadvantages: can be seen only on the film festivals

..."Swimming Pool", film seen first time at Cannes Film Festival 2003, sees France and Europe on most decadent, daring and inventive way. Francois Ozon writer and film director strikes again with this time British actress, Charlotte Rampling. Sarah Morton (Rampling) is a famous British mystery author. Tired of London, seeking inspiration for her new novel, she accepts an offer from her publisher John Bosload (Charles Dance) to stay at his home in middle of nowhere in France. It is early off-season, so Sarah hopes to find the beautiful country inspiring – until late one night, when John’s wild French daughter Julie (Sagnier) unexpectedly arrives. Sarah is at first, more than English-alike reserve, finding Julie reckless and sexually charged lifestyle repulsive. Their interactions set off an increasingly unsettling series...

barefoot777 03.03.2004 · Read review
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Disney Hong Kong Style

Advantages: Quiet
Disadvantages: Not very big

...Hong Kong Disneyland is situated on Lantau Island where it was built on reclaimed land. It was opened in 2005 and covers approximately 100 acres though expansion plans are in the pipeline this is the smallest of the Disneyland resorts. It is very easy to get to from Hong Kong as the MTR runs there with the last leg of the journey from Sunny Bay station being on a Disney themed train with Mickey windows and hand pull also in the shape of Mickeys head which the children loved. It is laid out like most Disney parks you enter and arrived first at the Main Street USA Attractions here are the Hong Kong Disneyland railroad which can take you a tour round the park with one stop in Fantasyland. Main Street vehicles that tour up and down Main St The Disney Story this tells you all about disney and the creation of the park. Animation...

elspeth334 07.01.2008 · Read review
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Sleeping in Hong Kong

Advantages: affordable,convenient
Disadvantages: nnone worth mentioning

...This month I had the pleasure of going to Hong Kong on a research trip with two other recent graduates and a lecturer in sociology. It was an amazing trip and I am sure I will write more about it very soon indeed. But this review is about our base, the Charterhouse Hotel. The hotel is on Wan Chai Road on Hong Kong Island, a very convenient base for sightseeing, shopping, eating and basically everything. Wan Chai Road is between Wan Chai MTR (metro) station and Causeway Bay station, a 5 minute walk between the two. The website is www.charterhouse.com, which may give you more information. As this trip was funded by research committees, we booked standard rooms, which were single rooms with an en suite, at about £50 a night including breakfast. The website illustrates the deluxe rooms and suites, but our budget did not stretch to...

fabulous_girl 19.07.2007 · Read review
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Hong Kong PHEWEY

Advantages: some nice sights
Disadvantages: the stench, the cleanliness, the pollution........

...I'm BACK!!! OK, so you didn't miss me, didn't even know I was gone probably, but nevertheless I'm going to use this opportunity to tell you what I've been up to and give you the run down on Hong Kong? Asia's world city? Back in May, I fled the country to go and work for a couple of months in a place that is renowned as one of the world's most vibrant cultural cities. In my time there I got to see a lot of Hong Kong and experience the culture from the viewpoint of both someone living there and of being a tourist, so I should have plenty of experiences to share with you?.and thus begins my novel?. So let's start with Hong Kong's good points. The first thing that strikes you when you land in Hong Kong, is the heat and humidity. The heat at a pleasant 30 degrees is nice. The humidity however was at 96 per cent when I landed so to...

simondh 05.08.2001 (20.03.2008) · Read review
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Review of General: Hong Kong

Disney Hong Kong - Where dreams sort of come true!

Advantages: All rides, shows and fire works display included in your ticket price
Disadvantages: Alot smaller than imagined

...HONG KONG DISNEY LAND - June 2007 This theme park opened in 2005 so it is fairly new and is 126 Hectares. It has four lands which are Fantasyland, Adventure Land, Tommorowland and Main Street USA, which all have there own theme and different rides! TRANSPORT We got a taxi reasonably cheap there and back from our hotel in Kowloon and it was very easy as we didnt have to wait in any queues for buses or trains. You need to be careful of taxi drivers as they will try to charge you double the toll price. Check with your hotel how much this is before getting a taxi. We had been previously warned and our taxi driver was trying to charge us twice the toll amount and we asked him why this was and he backed down and played dumb. in the end we didn't have to pay twice the toll. Another way to get to...

DeniseKelly40 20.09.2007 (14.09.2007) · Read review
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Hong Kong

Advantages: Clean, safe city which is really alive.
Disadvantages: It's a long, long flight.

...! There are direct double-decker busses from Admiralty and Central for HK£10.90 single. [UK 85 pence] A taxi costs around HK$65 [£5.00] Ocean Park is on the south of Hong Kong island, and is situated on two sides of a mountain. Travel between the two areas is by cable car, but if you are not feeling brave there is a free bus service linking the two areas. Admission to Ocean Park is HK$185 (£13.75) and is open daily from 10am until 6pm. The main feature is the dolphin and sealion display - 30 minutes of amazing synchonised swimming and stunts, and then you can visit a huge aquarium with sharks of many varieties and sizes which you can view from underneath as well as through the sides of their enormous tanks. There are huge aquariums the size of swimming pools with tropical fish - some of which are really huge specimums. The Ocean...

johnalderton 01.06.2006 (02.06.2006) · Read review
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Ocean Park Hong Kong - loved it and hated it all in one go!

Advantages: Fantastic animals & animal shows
Disadvantages: Really difficult to navigate, death trap of a cable car

...in the sunshine and watched what these animals love to do - show off! We heard an announcement about having the opportunity to swim with the dolphins which got us really excited as we were willing to pay anything to do this. We ran off at the end of the show trying to find the designated place, do you think we could find it? Could we heck, up and down we went, round and round, about two hours later we found out it was too late - rubbish! If you want to swim with the dolphins If you're heading off to Ocean Park in Hong Kong and would like this opportunity then go to the park early when it opens and the moment you walk in ask at the reception area. They do two swimming with dolphin sessions a day and it's on a first come firstserve basis. Good luck! The log ride We went on a log ride, similiar I guess to what you would...

Lisab3410 24.04.2009 (25.04.2009) · Read review
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Review of Ocean Park, Hong Kong

The Pride of Hong Kong

Advantages: Great Views
Disadvantages: Uncomfortable seats

...When on our trip to Hong Kong one of the thing on our to do list was a trip to Victoria peak to take in the marvellous view and ride on the famous peak tram. The History The tram has been in existence since 1888 when it was officially opened by the Governor and in these days the wooden tram was powered by coal fired boilers. It was not till 1926 that it was changed to electricity and the enlarged carriage could carry 52 people. After the second World War the all metal tram was introduced and increased in size to carry 62 passengers, then 11 years later a fully enclosed carriage was introduced made of aluminium and able to carry 72 people. However in 1989 it was modernised introducing new technology and new trams that could carry 120 passengers. Today The peak tram is a double reversible funicular railway which these days is...

elspeth334 18.10.2007 · Read review
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Hong Kong Phooey

Advantages: stunning views, good location
Disadvantages: expensive dining

...The Rennaisance Harbour View Hotel is located close to the central commercial district, within easy walking distance of the Star ferry, which you catch over to Kowloon. it is 44 km from the airport and has car parking facilites. The hotel is 42-story with 860 guestrooms and suites overlooking Hong Kong's Victoria Harbor. At the restaurants you can eat classic Cantonese and western cuisine and the facilities within the hotel include a podium garden, outdoor swimming pool, Jacuzzi, a golf driving range, tennis courts, a jogging trail and a fitness center. Room facilities include air-conditioning, mini-Bar, cots, radio, tea and coffee making facilities, safe, cable television, hair dryer, voicemail and inhouse movies. The hotel also offers babysitting services, restaurants, bar, beauty parlour, car rental, shops...

mussonanna 21.02.2006 · Read review
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