HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL Airport:
We arrived Hong Kong airport separately. Hong Kong International Airport is the main airport in Hong Kong. It is located on the island of Chek Lap Kok. Quite big airport with all kind of facilities. You can have free internet at Hong Kong Airport without any issues.
Transfer from Hong Kong Airport to Hong Kong City Center:
There are couple of ways to go to town from the airport. Taxi, airport-express, bus, speed-boat etc. We used the cheapest solution for that. It was very quick and convenient as well.
We took the S1 bus to go from airport to the cable-car station, where the closest metro line starts & we took the metro to go to town center.
Here is the step-by-step guide from our friend Orkun:
At the airport there is a tour-center or sort of tourist-info, where you can find the Octopus card for your travel(and other payments) in Hong Kong. The Octopus card is a rechargeable contactless stored value smart card for making electronic payments in online or offline systems in Hong Kong. It is active since 1997 and it makes your life easy in HK.
But there is a small issue about it. You have to have cash to obtain or to top-up it. So, at the airport please visit first the 'rip-off' exchange office and change some money for Octopus card.
Octopus card is coming with 50 HKD deposit and with some credit. So, 100HKD is more than enough to reach the town in other words.
When you purchase the Octopus Card, just head on outside of the airport following the Public Transport signs or alternatively you can ask the bus-stop where the bus 'S1' is stopping.
Remember the left side traffic and expect a double-decker bus like in the UK. You have to go until the last stop, which is the MTR Cable Car Station.
This is the first stop of the metro, so you can sit down and enjoy the air-conditioned metro ride until your final stop. That will cost you 10-12HKD, which is the cheapest option for airport transfer.
The Anne Black - YWCA:
We stayed in this hostel. It was very cheap, clean and central. We booked our room from booking.com and paid per night (double room) 440HKD without breakfast and with shared bathroom. It's a multi-storey hostel like most of the buildings in HK but with english-speaking reception, which is a big bonus. Another good suprise was about the Credit Card Payment. They accept it :)
By the way it's YWCA but open for males and females.
Address: 5 Man Fuk Road, Waterloo Road Hill, Hong Kong / +85227139211
Our twin bed room was looking like that:
First night in HK - Laser Show in Star Ferry Pier:
Every night at 8:00, Hong Kong’s skyline shines with a permanent light and laser show called “A Symphony of Lights.” According the Guinness Book of World Records, it’s the largest permanent one in the world. The show is narrated, but only in English on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. But on any night you can tune a radio to FM103.4 MHz for English narration. You can try and time it with a trip on the ferry, but the skyline is beautiful any time of night from the water.
So, we spent our first night with watching part of the laser show and walking in the downtown.
MONEY EXCHANGE IN HONG KONG:
Unlike in Mainland China, HongKong is full of private banks and exchange offices everywhere. But the problem is the exchange rate difference. Sometimes, the difference on Euro is almost 10% or even more. But we were lucky enough to find the official rate in some of the exchange offices. Remember that if you are far from the center, everything is cheaper and more real ;)
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