Hong Kong Boutique Hotels - Comments and Reviews

It is already Friday and the first week on the campus of Lingnan University is almost over. We had our Introduction Week together with the local Freshmen.

Each exchange student was assigned to a mixed group of new local and non local students. For the next three days we would stay together with this group and enjoying the new student's or...

Andy and I had spent a few days in HK 18 years ago and at that time had felt we wanted to return again - it was an amazing city then and still is now. We stayed at the YMCA believe it or not. But it is one of the best kept secrets in HK -right next to the Peninsula on the waterfront in Kowloon and it is run like a 31/2* hotel - the only differen...

Hong Kong China visa curbs "to go next month" Reuters, Monday September 22 2008 HONG KONG, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Visa curbs on foreigners travelling into China via Hong Kong as part of a security clampdown during the Beijing Olympics will be lifted in October, a major travel industry association said on Monday. Hong Kong, a gateway to China for fo...

I am currently leaving Hanoi on a Vietnam airlines flight to Hong Kong. What will I remember about Vietnam? Well most recently, I will slightly remember people like taxi drivers attempting to cheat me. I blame them, but I really shouldn't care that much. To them, a dollar or two makes the difference between a good and bad month of work. I would ...

Arriving at our hostel in Hong Kong was a strange experience. After taking the lift to the 15th floor we knocked patiently on the door of the Chunk Kiu Inn for a few minutes before a woman came around the corner and ushered us into a doctors surgery on the same floor. We tried to explain we wanted the hostel, and even if we did want a doctor our...

Glorious food!! Luv the Prawn Wantan with spicy Chili Oil...it's weird to eat macaroni with clear soup...smooth Tau Foo Fa with sugar that look like curry powder...tasty French Toast served by an unwilling hawker bos who was shooing customer away!! Helpful mini bus driver whom I am not suppose to speak to due to rules & regulation, but drove...

Hello and thank you for checking in on my blog! This is the first of hopefully many entries about my semester at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), as well as my travels through the many countries of Asia. After what seemed a neverending 15 1/2 hour flight from Chicago-Ohare to Hong Kong, I finally stepped off the plane, went through pa...

Today we slept in because we were all tired from the day before's events. We got ready and headed towards the subway at around 10. We took the same two trains as yesturday, only we went a stop more after Sunny Bay. We had arrived at Tung Chung. We planned to see the biggest outdoor Buddha in China. We lined up at the end of the queue. The queue ...

Hong Kong is the heart of Asia for a good reason- this is a city that lives large and dies low and dirty on parade in the street. The extremes of wonderfully sophisticated bars clash with the most repugnant of smells from street vendors. Catching up with friends and re-familiarising oneself with how to shop by negotiation was a wonderful break f...

Bueno, sigo con Hong Kong. Nos tomamos un vuelo a Shen Zhen, que es una ciudad que queda cerca de HK y era mucho mas barato el vuelo. (Ventajas de viajar con un residente en china...jeje) El viaje digamos que fue un poco eterno...teniamos 3 horas a esta ciudad pero el vuelo salio retrasadisimo porque estaba el clima horrible. Cuando llegamos a S...