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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
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Benny Profane
on May 19, 2013
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This well organized, smartly designed travel book makes doing Hong Kong easy. I was staying on Lantau (outlying island, connected by speed rail that takes 11 min to Kowloon and 20 minutes to Hong Kong) for business for six days, and this book helped me target which parts of Kowloon and Hong Kong I wanted to hit when I went on in.
Not much I need to say about this, other than it was great. So many detailed maps makes getting around simple. Here are some things you should check out/pass on.
HIGHLIGHTS:
-Tian Tan Buddha (pg 193). Big ol' Buddha statue (50 feet tall) built on top of a lush jungle peak on Lantau, accessible by bus or cable car. Cable car was fantastic, offering views of HK, hilly jungle landscape, and the Buddha as you approach it. And if you thought that transforming religious or cultural icons into moneymaking ventures was only an American tradition, then you were wrong! There's a gift shop in the base of the Buddha.
-Star Ferry. Crossing from Kowloon to downtown Hong Kong, it is a great experience to take in the cityscape in either direction. Not to mention it's $2 Hong Kong dollars, which is like 37 cents or something silly cheap.
-Kowloon Jade Market. Just a great experience as well. Have fun searching for nice jewelry and negotiating with the locals - they will punch a number into a calculator, hand it to you, you punch in the number you want to pay, and then they shake their head crazily like you just offered to shoot their dog.
-Man Mo temple.
-Yuen Po Street Bird Garden. Shout out to the dudes at the basketball court across the street that let me join their game and then didn't respect my jump shot ('MURICA!)
-The Peak. So awesome. I wish more cities were built into the side of huge mountains.Read more ›
Not much I need to say about this, other than it was great. So many detailed maps makes getting around simple. Here are some things you should check out/pass on.
HIGHLIGHTS:
-Tian Tan Buddha (pg 193). Big ol' Buddha statue (50 feet tall) built on top of a lush jungle peak on Lantau, accessible by bus or cable car. Cable car was fantastic, offering views of HK, hilly jungle landscape, and the Buddha as you approach it. And if you thought that transforming religious or cultural icons into moneymaking ventures was only an American tradition, then you were wrong! There's a gift shop in the base of the Buddha.
-Star Ferry. Crossing from Kowloon to downtown Hong Kong, it is a great experience to take in the cityscape in either direction. Not to mention it's $2 Hong Kong dollars, which is like 37 cents or something silly cheap.
-Kowloon Jade Market. Just a great experience as well. Have fun searching for nice jewelry and negotiating with the locals - they will punch a number into a calculator, hand it to you, you punch in the number you want to pay, and then they shake their head crazily like you just offered to shoot their dog.
-Man Mo temple.
-Yuen Po Street Bird Garden. Shout out to the dudes at the basketball court across the street that let me join their game and then didn't respect my jump shot ('MURICA!)
-The Peak. So awesome. I wish more cities were built into the side of huge mountains.Read more ›
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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A. Smith
on May 2, 2013
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This book was organized in an easy-to-use fashion for this city, even down to describing which exits to take from the metro for certain sights and how to pay for the tram. It also had lots of tips and random information I found very useful. Overall, it was 99-100% accurate. I can't recall ever finding something which wasn't like the book described. Even the things it said would be worth the trip were worth the trip, and things it said to skip should have been skipped. This book made my trip (and I was there for 9 days). I wish some of the map inserts were more detailed, but that would actually make them less useful for just getting oriented. Don't be lazy like me, and pull out the big, detailed map in the back if you're trying to navigate. It was plenty detailed. Overall, this book is one of the best travel guides I've used yet. (As an aside, if it's not clear from the book, if you're going to HK, definitely spring for an Octopus card. It makes everything much easier.)
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Celso Zelaya
on March 26, 2013
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I have had real frustrating experiences with travel guides in the past, with no real helpful information and everything mixed up and hard to find. This guide is quite the opposite, It almost made me my whole trip, I spend a whole week on Hong Kong having lots to do in each day, visiting museums, temples, markets, etc with nothing more than my guide and a little map I bought at the airport. I just loved the fact that everything is ordered by zones, so if I was interested in visiting a Temple, I could also check what other tourist attractions were nearby. It was a great vacation trip and most because of this guide.
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I went to Hong Kong twice in the early 90's. Those were epic visits: Hong Kong was still a British colony and the place had spectacular ultra-exotic energy. It just oozed cosmopolitan vibe. It was, and still is, perhaps the most beautiful major city in the world--at least from a panoramic perspective. The shopping was overwhelming back then: I brought home a Nikon camera and Seiko and Omega wristwatches at a fraction of what they were selling for in the US. And so, I was delighted at the prospect of sharing this magical place with my daughters in the summer of 2014. I bought this book and two others and we prepared for five days and five nights in wonderful Hong Kong as a digression from our month-long trip in Thailand.
This Lonely Planet is fine. I use them on all my travels and I rarely have a complaint. There is a ton of information in here and you probably won't use most of it, but you will still have a treasure trove of info about anything you might consider doing in the city. But, folks, I must report that Hong Kong has changed. It is now, obviously, a Chinese city and the entire character of the place has changed. It is now harsh, extremely crowded, and has a peculiar austerity to it. I found it much less hospitable and less interesting than before. There is very little exotic about it today. I'm glad we went, but two or maybe three days would have been more than enough. We were anxious to leave after five full days. My wife and daughters declare they never want to go back; they didn't like it very much.
Here's just a brief review of what it is like now:
1) HK is now extremely expensive. Our Holiday Inn was US$300/night for a totally mediocre room without any view.Read more ›
This Lonely Planet is fine. I use them on all my travels and I rarely have a complaint. There is a ton of information in here and you probably won't use most of it, but you will still have a treasure trove of info about anything you might consider doing in the city. But, folks, I must report that Hong Kong has changed. It is now, obviously, a Chinese city and the entire character of the place has changed. It is now harsh, extremely crowded, and has a peculiar austerity to it. I found it much less hospitable and less interesting than before. There is very little exotic about it today. I'm glad we went, but two or maybe three days would have been more than enough. We were anxious to leave after five full days. My wife and daughters declare they never want to go back; they didn't like it very much.
Here's just a brief review of what it is like now:
1) HK is now extremely expensive. Our Holiday Inn was US$300/night for a totally mediocre room without any view.Read more ›
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