Gold Coast Hotel Hong Kong

... have brunch, so it was up before 9 and then on the (right) MTR back to the Gold Coast, where we met at the Gold Coast Hotel at 1130. The four star hotel was situated on the edge of the marina and after a welcome glass of champagne, which was topped up ...

... time with our family at Christmas had showed us what we would be missing, making for a bittersweet parting. Our hotel was a swanky resort out of Hong Kong to ease us gently into backpacker mode. By the second day we noticed that we were attracting several ...

... appartment block which must be about 8' x 12'.  In that space is a bedroom, bathroom and kitchen - this is true Hong Kong living!  We were in Hong Kong for the 3 day Chinese New Year public holiday so the city was much quieter that ...

... light show put on by the skyscrapers along the HK skyline (PIC). On the way we passed by the Hong Kong clock tower (PIC). Returning to the hotel relatively early (9:30ish) we soaked our tired and achy feet before doing some laundry and planning for ...

Our day started really early, 5:55am departure from Brisbane that meant that we had to leave Gold Coast at 3:30am.   First we had a domestic flight to Sydney and then transferred to the international terminal.  12:00 and we are ready to take off ...

... whose wife was away in Japan, and daughter Michelle with her husband Ah Shun.  Alex picked us up at our hotel, and we drove out to the Gold Coast area of the New Territories.  The Gold Coast name was chosen by the site's developers strictly as a ...

... 35 metres, killing 21 on board - I kid you not). The bays on this side of the island are Ritchie Rich territory, with Gold Coast-esque apartments blocks towering skywards then chosen abode of the HK elite and well-to-do. Stanley is known for the ...

... a long day, I was awake at around 4am making sure that I had packed everything I needed. Mum and I were travelling together from the Gold Coast to Sydney, and our flight left at 7:30am. Thank you Joel for driving us to the airport, at such an early ...

... ! Ocean terminal is surrounded by a huge shopping complex. So is everything. Dan and Barb and we took the Star Ferry to Hong Kong and walked to the escalator that carries people from the harbor area to the mid levels of Victoria Peak. When the escalator ...

Hello everyone,   Well we find ourselves in Hong Kong airport with 1 hour free internet so we thought it would be the perfect opportunity to email and tell you all about our experiences over the past three weeks in Vietnam.   Wow - ...

... Peak and Central) and Peak areas, as well as the North Shore corridor, a highway running along the northern coast of Hong Kong Island and essentially hemming the skyscrapers in. Views aside, the centre also has some interesting and informative exhibits ...

We arrived in Hong Kong after a long flight. We are staying in in ther Gold Coast area which is a 20 minute drive to the city. It is a lovely area and our hotel room over looks the harbour. The area is really lovely and relaxing and we are two minutes ...

... ll have to somehow wangle a trip back to Thailand in the next eighteen months. We also took a trip out to the HK Gold Coast – which was interesting to see what money can do to transform an unspectacular piece of coastline to a commercial development ...

... of those hotels that you could justify spending a lot of money to stay in. Once we exited the hotel, Christina realized that we were in Disneyland in Hong Kong and started skipping and dancing. Disneyland seems to have that effect on people. It was a ...

... vegetarian meal dressed up to look like meat! A trip highlight though, was at the end of another bus journey - to Hong Kong's Gold Coast and the fascinating Crossroads Foundation. This is a Hong Kong-based charity that started operations in the late-90's ...

... what a wonderful place to live February 2007: In Memory of Billy Thorpe Whilst living and working on Queenslands Gold Coast I worked with a guy named Matthew March 2007: The Second Great Aussie Care Package Maaaate, it finally ...

... -diving, Dubai is now a capitalist boomtown founded on oil and free trade. The best way to describe it is a combination of Hong Kong, Las Vegas, and Cairo. Arab culture and dress and Islamic religion underpin the society, but overlaid on it are a huge ...

... platform soaking up the fact that we were once again in Australia. As expected the 2 hour train trip from the airport to the Gold Coast went without a problem and the lack of patrons onboard meant that it wasn't a hassle that the bag racks were full and ...

... every Beijing taxi driver to speak some English. Which is why the audience at a recent Olympics conference hosted by Hong Kong University was caught off guard by Yu Bu, deputy chief of the Beijing organising committee's broadcasting coordination ...

... to what I'm used to. And you have to bargain of course. Shopping When I first read about Dubai it said that the city was a like a Hong Kong of the Middle East. And yes, we did find out that they have quite a lot of malls and you can find really good ...