Marco Polo Hong Kong

After 2 years of planning, researching, and studying Marco Polo's Northern trading route......it's finally happening! You folks can keep track of my trip, and i shall do my best to upload pictures and entries to keep y'all entertained;-) Before i start the ...

Welcome or welcome back to my travel blog from the Land of Mao.

... smog from the place was unreal. One side of the plane was black and the other had blue skies. Checked into the Marco Polo Hong Kong Hotel and this place was paradise. Had a bath and changed into our robes, ordered room service and chilled properly - ...

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... to figure out how to get to the Peak Tram. It didn't even matter how much Chinese I studied because everyone in Hong Kong speaking Cantonese (I studied mandarin). Luckily enough finding English speaking natives is not that hard to do. We were told ...

... "airplane connector" (forgot the word for the thing that connects the airport to the plane) we take our first steps into the Hong Kong International Airport. We didn't make it very far since Robin just remembered that she left her wrist guard on the ...

... flight is 14 hours. The meaning of GMT is as follows.. No, the temperature indication of -59 C is not on the ground in Hong Kong. Help! Don't people know anything any more??  He was going to Adelaide, Australia to repair drilling rigs. I told him he ...

... 't recall as the days all kinda blended together after a while. I do recall that on my last evening there, I made it over to the Marco Polo hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui and hit up the traveling Oktoberfest event, which was a total blast. It was nice to see how ...

... Symphony of Light (a lighting show projected from the tops of the buildings). We watched it from the roof top bar (or car park bar) of Marco Polo Hotel, this was apparently the best view in town. At 8pm the lights of all the building start to do a bit of ...

... Fu Hostel/Garden Hostel Dormitory -70HK$/bed/night; dbl room-350/400HK$ Flat F4-1, 3F Mirador Mansion www.gardenhostel.com.hk Marco Polo HK Hotel Beautiful, spacious rooms, fantastic & very friendly service, great location, some rooms have great view. ...

... from all over because the Rugby Sevens had ended the day before we got there; we got to see team France and Malaysia leaving the Marco Polo hotel which was cool. After shopping we were hungry so we walked to a yummy Thai restaurant, at least I think it ...

... was time for us to go home yes? – hell no! From here Paul decided that, in our pirate guises, we should go to the Marco Polo 5* luxury hotel to go to their Oktoberfest – sure! So off we went, twenty pirates in a luxury hotel car park, with the ...

... . I ran into Suzanne and Woody, clearly on a secret mission., Turns out they found out that Brian and Maureen were staying in the Marco Polo Hotel, right next to the ship. They talked a bellman into slipping a note under their door, just as a joke. ...

... trip had to be post-poned till a later date...2010! Now before we start this wonderful adventure that follows the footsteps of Marco Polo and many other travelers, we thought we'd wet our palettes in the City of LIghts......Hong Kong! Spending ...

... ...aaand what a storm it was... we took the star ferry across to Kowloon side, and then in the car park of the Marco Polo hotel we found a perfect recreation of Munich, well almost. There was a lot of beer and various unpleasantly treated meats, ...

... are 3 Marco Polos on the same stretch of Canton Road. All 3 are also connected to HK's largest shopping mall, Harbour City. Marco Polo Hong Kong is the closest to the Star Ferry Terminal, where you board ships to cross from Kowloon to Hong Kong Island, ...

... much still true. Since I am traveling with my family for 2 weeks, my accommodations have been upgraded. In HK, we stayed at the Marco Polo HK Hotel. Funny enough, there are 3 Marco Polo hotels in HK and they are on the same street (Canton Rd), each ...

Could it get any better than this: being shown Hong Kong and Kowloon by someone who knows it and loves it? Getting to Cambodia meant connecting through Bangkok or HK; two cities I had always wanted to visit, but knowing that JB had lived in China for a ...