Metropark Mongkok

After more hours on planes than we want to think about, Michelle and her Mom met us at the airport where they successfully guided us through baggage claim and transportation to our Hotel. By the time we got there and slightly unpacked, I saw 00:15 on ...

... flights to and from Vietnam involved a stopover, and the flight company had very nicely offered us 3 free nights in the 3-star Metropark Kowloon Hotel to break up our journey home. After 6 weeks of backpackers' hostels, we were looking forward to a nice ...

... the sign affixed to the  panel in front of the seat on the airport shuttle bus from Hong Kong airport to the Metropark Kowloon Hotel. It was the first, though we suspect not the last of the fractured English signage we will see on ...

... again! After a freshen up we checked in online for our flight home tomorrow. We then left the hotel and walked to Mongkok markets and bought some reproduction items before a quick dinner and an early night. We can not believe our travels end tomorrow, ...

... and Chinese (Mandarin or Cantonese I couldn't tell but it worked with our driver) We registered at the hotel (Metro Park Mongkok) and got a discount voucher for dinner and breakfast so we wasted no time and headed to the restaurant to get something to ...

... . What a waste, I know! My sinuses are not my friends these days. I don't think the plane journey helped. Alan explored the Mongkok computer market. Sounds pretty crazy! 8 storeys high and the higher up you go the cheaper the goods! Alan was going to buy ...

... into Hong Kong, past all the high rise and after getting a scenic route of the bustling city ended up at our hotel - The Metropark Kowloon. Checked in and got to our rooms, which were fine. Basic, but perfectly adequate and clean. Crashed out...  ...

We got the flight at 22:50hrs last night for the nine hour flight to Hong Kong, it was not a good flight, none of us slept, Sam felt sick the whole flight and had leg cramps so I spent over half the flight rubbing his tummy or his legs. We got picked ...

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The flight was great, as I slept for most of it.  I had to fill in another form in relation to Swine Flu on arrival and they scanned with an ultra violet light.  I found my travel desk to check in for the transit to the hotel.  I guess ...

Arrived in Hong Kong yesterday around 3pm local time. It was a pretty rough flight, didnt get much sleep and the food was fairly mouldy. We did get a bit of laugh though when they wanted to take our temperature coming through customs, must be screening ...

Feeling fantastic after a proper night's sleep we were up at 7 to catch the shuttle bus across Kowloon for our guided tour of Hong Kong Island.  Our tour guide, Max, was great, giving us a running commentary on the areas we passed through as well ...

we got to hong kong last night. I went to sleep. brad stayed out until around 4:00 in the morning then woke up at 7:00 to go to the peak of hong kong. We walked around hong kong island, the temple we went to go to was being renovated. We took a cable car ...

Wow!  The difference between Hong Kong & India was huge. Stepped off the plane to be greeted by super helpful tourism reps plying us with maps and providing all the information you need.  A Luxurous bus trip later we arrived at our ...

22nd to 25th Nov 2010 Hong Kong was a great city to visit for the first few days - would've been even better at the end for shopping! A lot nicer than we (Melise) thought it was going to be! Caught the SkyFlyer bus from the Airport (flew Cathay ...

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Hong Kong was always going to be an expensive stop, but Pearl and Neil (friends of mine from work, who moved out six months ago) offered us a place to stay. The flight was pleasant and we were even fed, then we managed to get straight to Pearl and Neil's ...