Hong Kong: Longest Outdoor Covored Escalators

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Hotels.com and Cheaptickets helped me to organise the trip.

Escalator-Hong-Kong

Hong-Kong-Escalator

On our second day in Hong Kong we took the Central Mid Levels Escalators which is for free, it takes you from Central through Soho (which has good shopping and restaurants) up to the Mid Levels. The ride is free and takes about 20 minutes if you don’t walk. If you go really early please be aware the escalator goes downhill instead of up.

Inside-Hong-Kong-Escalator

Hong-Kong-Fare-Saver

It seems that most local people just used 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 comment.

view-from-HK-Escalator

Hong-Kong-Mosque

Towards the end of the ride was this cool looking mosque.

Posted by   @   8 August 2007 4 comments
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Aug 10, 2007
11:05 am
#1 Marty :

the octopus swipe thing is for a $2 discount on ur next ride on the MTR.
Thhere is a time limit from when you swipe till ur next ride but i cant remember how long.

Aug 10, 2007
11:09 am
#2 RGS :

Ah … thank you Marty for the info. I was just amazed by all people swiping octopus cards of it seems like the whole family ;) I did swipe my card as well … I wonder why MTR is doing it? To make the escalators more popular?

Mar 31, 2008
1:22 am

Most of the people pass by the fare saver swipe their octupos cards, its still $2 discount and can be used when you ride a Tram :)

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