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Dorsett Far East Hotel, HongKong

June 10, 2011 / Filed Under: Hong Kong, hotel, package, promo, tour, travels

Our tour guide took us to the Dorsett Far East Hotel. It is a small hotel located in the heart of Tsuen Wan. What’s nice about this hotel is that it is near everything –restaurants, convenience store and of course, the MTR.

If I may say so, I think we got one of the best hotel deals ever.

We planned to go to Disneyland Resort by ourselves using the MTR. We didn’t avail of the because Disneyland packages because they are very costly.

We registered and gave a deposit of HKD 100 per person, refundable after check-out.

This is our room. Rome, Sis and Dia went into the triple room and Tita becka and Joff in another. The room was very small but it was clean. It has a small fridge, lamps and tv.

There’s a thermos, two mugs and some instant coffee and tea.

The bathroom was very small too! peanutbutter♥ couldn’t fit in the shower.LOL!

The bathroom has a bath gel, shampoo, soap, comb, shower cap and a couple of toothbrushes.

After a tiring day from our Disneyland Resort tour, It was time for a well-deserved rest. We woke up for a nice buffet breakfast the next day.
We stayed at this hotel for two nights before leaving for Shenzhen, China.

Arriving HongKong Airport

June 6, 2011 / Filed Under: Hong Kong, Out of the Country, package, tips, tour, travels

When we arrived at the HongKong Airport, our main concern is to meet the tour guide who will take us to our hotel. Good thing there are designated meeting spots so we immediately located him.

I know I looked pretty banged up for a 2-hour flight..LOL!

Since we were planning to go to a lot of places, we purchased Octopus Cards at the airport. The colorful ones are for peanutbutter and me {priced at HKD 150} and the pink is for Ykaie {priced at HKD 70}.

Octopus Cards are magnetic cards which you use in the MTR or Mass Transit Railways {Like LRT and MRT here}. It can also be used to buy food and products at the 7-11, McDonalds and other establishments. It is like a universal card. If it runs out of money, you can have it reloaded at the MTR stations and if it still has money when you’re leaving HK, you can return it at the airport and get a refund with what’s left.

I didn’t have it refunded, though. I used the leftover load to buy some “pasalubongs” {travel gift}.

This is our first out-of-the-country trip as a family {peanutbutter♥, ykaie and me}. It was a very exciting experience….this one of the {little and big} adventures that I wanted to experience with peanutbutter♥ and ykaie. Everything is just more fun and more exciting when I do it with them…

Leaving for our HongKong-Shenzhen Tour

June 5, 2011 / Filed Under: Hong Kong, Out of the Country, package, tour, travels

Last February we were able to avail of Buyanihan.com’s 4D/3N HongKong-Shenzen Travel Package for Only P11,250.50 per person. We thought it was a steal since everything was included in the package and the package came in so cheap.There were 8 of us that were traveling but the last two booked separately. We had a lot e-mail exchanges with Buyanihan.com informing them that the eight of us were traveling together but was kinda disregarded.

Makes me wished I booked one of those nice egypt holidays, instead.

So when they were finalizing the bookings, they told us that we had to pay extra. We declined of course….long story cut short, instead of giving us four twin rooms, they booked us for only two twin rooms and one triple room.

That was fine with us as long as we get to travel together and all of us would fit in our rooms.

Ykaie has coughs that day and I let her take medicine before the flight. She was dizzy and sleepy. She slept on daddy’s chest at the airport while waiting for our flight.

We boarded Hongkong Express at around 7:40am. On the plane, she gamely smiled before the flight but as soon as the plane started taking off, she started to feel uncomfortable. I guess she felt the pressure on her eardrums as the plane changed altitude and because she was already dizzy from the cough medicine, it was way more uncomfortable.

She was mostly sleeping and crying the whole time…

We arrived in Hongkong at around 10am. Ykaie still didn’t feel well….