Hong Kong Guest Houses

... the way ____________________________________________________________________________________________ India / Nepal / Thailand / Japan / Hong Kong ---------------------------------------------------------------- Its been almost 3 months since I ...

... , can good, etc.). We could spend days just on this block. Once we get to Bangkok (10 days from now will upload photos). Hong Kong guest houses - at least the ones we've stayed in the pasr few years - have a hallway with bottled water and a ...

... and down to the ferry terminal by MTR. We never ceased to be amazed at the efficiency, not to mention cleanliness, of the Hong Kong rail system. Trains arrive every three minutes on the dot. Despite this, we often found hordes of Chinese racing towards us ...

... try unsuccessfully to find internet cafe. Same story as Singapore presumably because everybody is connected at home and most hotels and guest houses have terminals. Grab a bowl of noodles in little cafe then taxi at 6pm to Happy Valley Race Course. $10 ...

... offered this advice also). So we set out to prepare for the night. I have failed so far to explain that the weather in Hong Kong was awesome (comparitively speaking of course, i didn't need to wear thermals for my entire stay there!) It averaged around 14 ...

... and it started its steep ascent up to the very top. When we finally made it we were rewarded with stunning views across Hong Kong and all 3 islands were visible from this point. The weather was beautiful with glorious sunshine so we decided to do ...

... whole lot of flashy shops. Eventually we found a seedy arcade and tried in there. A grotty lift with a queue and signs for about 50 guest houses & other businesses and there was the name of ours. Into the lift we go. Mia is not impressed. As we go up ...

Day 3 We woke up early (still jet lagged) and went to use the world's longest escaltor on Hong Kong Island. When we arrived we discovered it wasn't actually one long escalator but lots of smaller ones. However on the trip up we spotted an English pub ...

... you find the floor, then each guest house would have a flat number... With me so far??? If that wasn't confusing enough, sometimes the guest houses would be... lets say : Block C, Floor 14, Flat 3 – but their reception to check in would be Block A, ...

... to Bangkok) - When you arrive in town, leave one person sitting with the backpacks and send just one person out looking for guest houses - Be patient. You'll get there when you get there and there is nothing you can do to speed things up - ...

... , ocidentais e muitas cadeias de fast food. E a cadeia 7 eleven abrange todos os principais pontos da cidade; Há muitas guest houses concentradas num local em Kowloon, chamado Mansão de Chungking. Aqui, não esperava. Caríssimo, numa caixa de ...

... of several hotels and guest houses (the chung king building is so big that it is housing over 50 individual hotels, backpackers and guest houses) and tried to usher you to theirs. After a little walk we arrived in the lobby of a guest house and were ...

... guess at 8AM it was still too early for them. The mansions are basically a great old, dirty apartment block. There you can find many guest houses and as I'm told it is one of the cheapest places to stay in Hong Kong. I looked at a few places but most ...

... wrong, so I had a day less than I thought in Hong Kong!  So didn't really get a chance to check out Hong Kong properly - gutting!  Anyway, must catch up about the rice terraces.  Left Yangshuo bound for the rice terraces of Longji.....yet ...

... for the 4/5* The Kowloon Hotel). A mansion it is not but one of many tower blocks of apartments that have been converted into guest houses, hostels and hotels. Our room was small and we believe it used to be a bathroom but has now a very hard double bed, ...

... air-con, essential I think!  It was in a massive tower block (ironically name Mirador Mansions) full of little hostels/guest houses, flats, businesses of all kinds, from restaurants to tailors workshops and all a little bit grubby and run down with ...

... Kong they have very limited backpacker accomodation therefore you have to stay in this 1950's tower block which has about 100 guest houses. There is literally a mafia outside who try and control operations and extort cash out of you as well as offering ...

... a million and one guest house at low low prices. So we grab our prison cell size room for 3, as Steve gets in tomorrow. Hong Kong is amazing, sky scrapers, Chinese food, people speak English, and the metro is cool, not forgetting the star ferry, which ...

... then had to go back down to the ground floor (reception is on the 3rd floor of this huge complex of hundreds of different guest houses) and up a different elevator on the otherside!  Then I was shown a prison room!  Literally, a tiny room with ...