Holiday Inn Golden Mile Hong Kong

... places were fully booked or had large prices.  By this time it was getting really late so we checked into the Holiday Inn Golden Mile - must have been a five star with the price tag we had to pay!  It had satellite TV, two double ...

Q: Where did we stay? A: Holiday Inn, Golden Mile, Kowloon (4 star rating) My rating of the hotel: I'll start with the negatives ... 1) Overall the look and feel is a bit tired (i.e. it's no longer in it's prime) and 2) There are no views to ...

Vrijdag ochtend vroeg arriveerden we na een soepele vlucht van 11 uur in Hong Kong. De bus bracht ons snel naar het Holiday Inn. Na een klein tukkie zijn we de stad gaan ontdekken. Uiteraard begonnen met de bekende skyline van Hong Kong Island. Het is ...

... filled with creepy little shops and African and Middle Eastern men harrassing us to buy copy watches, led us to flee to the Holiday Inn down the street. This was a significantly larger expense, but completely worth it. Our first order of business in Hong ...

... wanted Indian food or atleast non-veg American food. McDonalds provides that and there are Indian joints in Tsim Tsa Tsui too. Hari's Holiday Inn also is a good place to eat, albeit a bit expensive ! Hong Kong offers tremendous tourist ...

... chose to do another tour to see Landau Island which is half an hours ferry ride to. The island is beautiful, lush and green. Hong Kong people use this island as their retreat from the city. We visited an old village of stilted homes. They were also very ...

... , very quickly. At least we went today, and not tomorrow, which is 1st May, and Labour Day in China and Hong Kong, and a 3-day holiday for everyone.  Apparently, queues at the border are likely to be 2 hours or more, and people will be ...

... the highest point of the island where the very rich live, away from the heat and the noise of the city down below. This being Hong Kong obviously they have built a shopping mall at the top of the hill - but there are still some nice quiet paths that ...

The Star Ferry 1-hour harbour cruise was a good choice, as we had great views of both Kowloon and Hong Kong Island, on a lovely sunny spring morning. In the afternoon we did our city tour, which was supposed to take 4.5 hours, but ended up taking ...

... on to the Temple Street night market, but by this time we were absolutely buggered, and tired of all the masses of people, so we didn't spend a lot of time there.  I think a fair chunk of the 7 million people in Hong Kong were at the markets that ...

12 hours on the plane to Hong Kong was a bit of a ride, but the personal movies and games console helped. We waited for our bags for 30 minutes, and they still hadn't arrived.  Rochelle was starting to panic, because there was only us and ...

... at 820, ten minutes earlier than scheduled. we were quite psyched for the secrets of pearl shopping talk at hari's bar in the holiday inn golden mile. but before we went there, we need to have breakfast first. we settled for a cafe de coral near our ...

... , we were angry with our travel agent.  A difficult hour on the laptop got us booked back into the Holiday Inn Golden Mile for four additional nights in Hong Kong. So we jumped back on the Metro and went back to the Holiday Inn, where I fired off ...

... that populate either of the Mirador or Chungking  Mansions where somewhere around 10 bucks gets you a bed in a dorm (the Holiday Inn Golden Mile situated between the two runs at about $200 a night).  Both are located on bustling Nathan ...

A little bit of work to finish off and then blissful sleep. Up early – whats new…went for a walk and had breakfast at a little place on a side street off Nathan Rd. Yummy wonton and dumpling soup followed by stocking tea (very strong milk tea ...

... I get a visa in Hong Kong immediately, and come the next day.  So I trotted downstairs to begin speaking to Hong Kong travel agents.  Most were polite but unhelpful, saying the quickest visa turnaround would be Monday, and directing me to China ...

... is slicker, more modern and efficient. The hotel we are at is on Nathan Road, so right in the heart of Kowloon's "Golden Mile." The first striking feature was that the temperature is no longer 30 degrees, it’s now between sixteen and twenty, so out ...

... to pick us up and whisk us off to a fantasy land, we slept until about 8, and we had to be at hari's bar at the holiday inn at 930! strangely, we still took our time preparing, even had the gall to have breakfast, then headed off to tsim sha tsui. we ...