Day 1(16th July 2007):
Safely arrived at Macau International Airport after a 3hour 45min trip from KL at around 10:30am. Manage to get some small change at money changer in the airport with RM50, you can get 105MOP (make sure you get enough small change). Boarding a transportation bus (AP1) which charging 3.30 MOP per person and additional 3MOP per luggage. The bus will be by passing Macau-HongKong Ferry Terminal (Please take note that you must tell the bus driver where are your destination). It’s just a 20min trip or less.
(for more info, check this out:
http://www.macau-airport.com/en/v01/02_local_buses.php
At the ferry terminal, the sales ticket booths are located on the first floor. We took TurboJet with single trip cost us 142MOP per head. We bought 11:45am tickets, but missed them due to long queue at the custom checkpoint. Luckily, we were allowed to take the 12noon trip. It’s a comfortable and smooth sailing ferry ; and we reached HongKong around 1pm. After clearing the custom checkpoint, we went straight to the MTR station. Fyi, HongKong ferry terminal is situated at Sheung Wan (blue line) MTR station which located inside a shopping mall.
We bought a one day trip MTR ticket for HKD50. You can use them unlimitedly for 24hours and the MTR operate from 6am-1midnight. Well, we save the hussle-tussle lining up to buy single trip or topping up the Octupos card. Quite a convenient investment.
Since we are staying at Alisan Guest House in HongKong Island (for more info, check this out:
http://home.hkstar.com/~alisangh/) , from Sheung Wan station, we dropped off at Causeway Bay station which is still in the blue line. Taking exit D2, we came across a narrow and busy street called Lockhart St. We took a left turn and at the T-junction after 50m, we walked into the Cannon St. Walking along these street, you will find 7-eleven, Mannings (guardian in Malaysia) and President theater/cinema. After bypassing the cinema, you must be seeing this entrance as shown:
It's a typical-drama-like HongKong old building style where you need to press some 'secret' code (given once you check-in). But for the first-timer, you need to press 5th floor and someone will told you what you should do. Their building-guard or so called 'hon kan' (in cantonese mean night-watcher) will let you in. The rate is differ from season to season as well as room type. To get first hand info, the best is emailing or call direct to the guest house owner, Tommy.
So coming next will be exploring Causeway Bay and Hongkong Island :)
Since we are staying at Alisan Guest House in HongKong Island (for more info, check this out: http://home.hkstar.com/~alisangh/) , from Sheung Wan station, we dropped off at Causeway Bay station which is still in the blue line. Taking exit D2, we came across a narrow and busy street called Lockhart St. We took a left turn and at the T-junction after 50m, we walked into the Cannon St. Walking along these street, you will find 7-eleven, Mannings (guardian in Malaysia) and President theater/cinema. After bypassing the cinema, you must be seeing this entrance as shown:
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