Sunday, 29 July 2007

Book hotels in Hong Kong through Asiahotels.com

Readers of this blog will know that I've been planning to go to Hong Kong for a while but due to the cost of living in Tokyo as well as the insane working schedule and lack of "take your holidays whener you want" system like back home after almost three and a half years I still havn't made my way over there.

About two years ago I bought myself the latest version of the Lonely Planet Hong Kong guide but the country has changed so much recently that I don't think I'll be using it at all when I do go.

Thankfully I found an amazingly cool site, DiscoverHongKong.com! I simply love the fact that you can choose "English" on the front page and your location! Being an Australian living in Japan I hate, hate, hate it when sites automatically detect I'm surfing the net from Japan and give me the Japanese language version of a site by default (I'm looking at you Microsoft and Hotmail!!!).

With DiscoverHongKong.com I chose "English" and then my location in Asia. Pure and simple but oh, so appreciated!

The site is so well designed it's inspired me to once again get on with this site's redesign. It covers all aspects of Hong Kong; The city, shopping, dining, heritage and the often forgotten natural wonders that a lot of tourists don't even think to check out on their trips.

Another cool site I've come across is AsiaHotels.com which offers flights to pretty much everywhere (not just Asia). Their site is so easy to navigate with all the countries listed in the left side menu. So many travel sites seem to hide their flights through numerous subpages which makes comparing prices and times a chore but here, navigation is clean and easy and above all else... FAST!

AsiaHotels.com has a nice page on Hong Kong (as they do for all locations) which features fast info on the city, hotels and most importantly the weather and tipping! (I always find it funny how with all the major struggles with cultural difference, tipping always seems to come up. I still try to force-tip people in Tokyo).

I want to go to Hong Kong all over again! Now all I need is some money (just paid off a years worth of Japanese National Health Insurance, the bastards!) and some more holidays when the rest of Japan isn't on break.

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Labels: Hong Kong