Hong Kong Guest Houses - Comments and Reviews

As I’m spending 1 semester abroad in Hong Kong, it kind of made sense to me to learn Chinese. So I enrolled for the Putonghua beginners’ class for exchange students. The only problem about learning Mandarin in Hong Kong is that the Hong Kong people speak Cantonese. Nevertheless 75% of all Chinese speak Mandarin, so it kind of makes m...

Well the weather really tried to mess up our plans for today. The forecast was for heavy rain. So we had planned to take the MTR to Kowloon and visit some museums. Based on our previous form we estimated that it would require 16 in total to keep us busy for the day. Well guess what? It didn't rain at all, in fact it was bright and sunny all day ...

Started our trip with a 12 hour pretty non-eventful flight (although R made a great discovery that BA play relaxing music for the stressed first time long hauler and took advantage having a record 2 hours sleep on the move!) Stu, surprisingly enough, slept for 6 hours straight. Tim met us at the airport and we got a taxi at the station, Rach say...

I awoke at 5:30AM with a call from my landlord that he would be stopping by to work on the upstairs plumbing and would need to turn off the water. I think I said, hi, okay, no problem, bye. The disruption in my sleep was good though, because it meant I could reach Chris to say hello before he started dress rehearsal back in Virginia. Then I fell...

With the horse events for the Games being held in HK, what will the security be like? Will HK be a soft touch compared to the military presence in Beijing? Will your triad be able to do business during the Games in Kowloon? The South China Morning Post ran this editorial today exploring the issue: Immigration chief Simon Peh Yun-lu has, in the e...

The talk for most travelers in Asia is usually about places to stay, where to go, which restaurants serve decent chocolate cake and whether the toilets are staffed by pigs. But for the last month or so, just about every traveler in north-east Asia and most business people, teachers, volunteers and hangers-on in China have been talking earnestly ...

Hello from HKIA! After departing our home town of Saskatoon, Sk on Sept 4th, it was a short Air Canada flight to Vancouver, BC. With a 5 hour layover at YVR (Vancouver International Airport), Elsie and I soon boarded Cathay Pacific for a 13.5 hour flight to Hong Kong. That was our longest flight ever! It really made me think that first class, no...

We have just finished our second full day in Hong Kong. Getting here was a little bit of an adventure. We traveled from Chengdu to Shenzhen, which is a major city on the China side of the border with Hong Kong. We did not fly into Hong Kong because it is much cheaper to go through Shenzhen. The plan was to (1) get to the border from the airport ...

Day Juan in Hong Kong was cool, we arrived around 9 pm and when we finally managed to find our bus stop, we took a bus straight to our hotel. It was on Lantau Island which is where the airport is, so it was an hour bus trip on the craziest roads ever, Nae thought she was going to die but it was pretty cool. From there it was time to eat and figu...

a quickie weekend back in hong kong for michael's birthday.


and, of course, a night out in wanchai.


great to catch up with friends, do brunch at the fab island shangri-la and see how quickly the sophster and bella are growing.