Hotels.com and Cheaptickets helped me to organise the trip.
So you finally made to the Airport in Hong Kong? What’s now? Well at first lay your eye on the awesome architecture of the airport:
Or you could check your emails ( since they offer free wifi Airport wide) or go straight to the airport spa.
But in case you are eager to get into the city, you can either chose from Taxis, Busses or the awesome Airport Express Train which takes you from the airport to Hong Kong Central in only 24 minutes and once you get there look out for the free Shuttle Busses to most major hotels.
We got ourself the Hong Kong MTR Octopus Card:
If you buy the Card online which you can do here (this site only works on IE) you pay HK$285 which is about 36 US Dollar.
If you don’t buy the card online .. no worries there is a stand right when you come out from customs there the card will be HK$15 more expensive.
You will get 2 rides on the Airport Express within 30 days (not sure about in what time frame) and on top of that you get 3 days unlimited MTR rides and when you are back at the airport you can return the card in Terminal 1 to get a HK$50 Deposit and any money you might have added (you can add more money on it after the 3 days) back.
The Octopus card is also a paying system … add couple of Dollar to pay with just the card in most of the stores in the MTR Stations and tons of store outside of the it. Which is very handy.
An other thing what I loved about the Airport Express was that they have a Early Check in Desk in Central Station. We arrived back in Hong Kong in the early afternoon and our flight back to London was at 1:00 in the morning. So checked in and got rid of your luggage and just had to log around our hand luggage. Which wasn’t too bad.
Infotek sent me a booming $50 donation … Thank you very much. Do you wanna buy me a drink?
JP Loh wrote,
I’m not sure if it’s still the same as 3 years ago but it was cheaper to take the bus.
Link | July 29th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
RGS wrote,
Yeah, you can still take the bus and would be cheaper. The train is just the more convenient way to get to HK Central.
Link | July 29th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
Cosmo Hotel Hong Kong | Random Good Stuff - The Entertainment Blog wrote,
[...] ( right next to the Happy Valley Race Track ), free Wifi in the Lobby, free shuttle bus to the Hong Kong airport express and other MTR Stations and because of it’s look [...]
Link | July 31st, 2007 at 10:06 am
Double Decker Tramway in Hong Kong | Random Good Stuff - The Entertainment Blog wrote,
[...] fare is really cheap HK$2. You can not ride it for free within the 3 Day Free MTR rides of the Airport Express Deal, so have exact change or used credits you might have added on your Octopus Card. You pay at the [...]
Link | August 5th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
Hong Kong: Longest Outdoor Covored Escalators | Random Good Stuff - The Entertainment Blog wrote,
[...] the escalator to get to this MTR fare saver thing? It looks like you get HK$2 when you swipe your octopus card over it. I did it .. but if someone knows more please leave a [...]
Link | August 8th, 2007 at 6:33 pm
Hong Kong: Meeting with Tian Tan the Buddha | Random Good Stuff - The Entertainment Blog wrote,
[...] a month ago. We were really disappointed, because we did see that it was running when we take the Airport Express into the city 2 days earlier. Must have been just some testing oh well. Here is video I snatched of [...]
Link | August 11th, 2007 at 1:42 pm
Benn wrote,
Hey,
I will be stopping Hong Kong for hours and i was wondering is the national and international termanal one building. Saying that i mean you dont have to catch buses the other air portS????
Link | January 9th, 2009 at 3:25 am