My Journey of Life: Hongkong - Macau, 17-21 May 2012 (18th)

18.05.12

Woke up at 7am, raining..again, haiz. The weather was so unpredictable. We couldn't go anywhere but stayed in room also bored. Finally we went out to pacific coffee nearby having our breakfast, 1 doughnut + 1 choco muffin was MOP 32. I could say food here was not cheap, even 1 bottle of mineral water 500ml costed MOP 8.

We would be heading back to Hongkong at 11 am. Ticket to Kowloon was cheaper than the one we came yesterday, it was HKD 139 for one trip. The trip back to Hongkong was so terrible due to bad weather, I got sea sick, 1 hour suffering from boat swaying, lucky I didn't vomit out. Arrived at Kowloon ferry terminal, we continued looking for Embassy hotel/service apartment, the one that we searched through internet before. We were so shocked when we saw the building, looked very old and dark. No wonder they didn't put any picture of building in web. We were still thinking, "Oh maybe it's just exterior of building (Never judge the book by its cover right?)" We then went up by elevator to the place, hoping that we could get better impression of this hotel but we were wrong. The room condition looked different so much with the image shown in their website (Now, i am rechecking their website again, it's difficult to believe, the pictures there are so nice, did we go to the wrong place???). I myself don't recommend this hotel, although the price itself is quite cheap, i think it's about HKD 400 - 600. Never thought that staying in Hongkong would be a problem to us, no wonder people say living cost in Hongkong is expensive especially for housing. If compared to Singapore, at least with such price we can get a clean and comfortable place to stay.

We decided to move to another hotel, we checked in the Imperial Hotel at Tsim Tsa Shui district. Wow!! the rate was so expensive, it's about HKD 1,400++ per night with a room smaller than Sintra Hotel in Macau. No choice, we needed a room to stay that night, so we paid for one night first, hoping that the next day we could find cheaper one. After settled with room, we took rest a while then at night we went out again although it was still raining outside. Reached at the Avenue of Star, it was heavy rain again, the wind blew so strong even our umbrella couldn't cover our body anymore. We just took few photos there then went back to Tsim Tsa Shui to have dinner. So far we didn't see any hawker center around, so we just ate at food court inside shopping mall. A set of chicken and soup with rice was HKD 48 while roasted duck rice was HKD 29. About 9 PM we went back to hotel resting.