Hong Kong Business Trip
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I am here at Kowloon (pronounced “cow” + “loon”, like toon), Hong Kong for a 3 day business trip. This blog post will give some details and tips how to get here. More soon.
You will miss this if you don’t go to Hong Kong!
Here’s what you need if you want to Travel to Hong Kong from Manila:
- Airline Ticket (Cebu Pacific Round Trip Ticket from Manila to HK and back is about PhP 9800.00 and I want to buy pasalubong, dont take the Go-Lite fare)
- Hotel reservation (The Kowloon Hotel costs about US$ 270 for 2 nights)
- Money to pay taxi fare (I paid about PhP 120.00 from Makati to NAIA Terminal 3)
- Money for Travel Fee (PhP 1,620.00)
- Money converted to Hong Kong Dollars (HK$ 1.00 is PhP 7.20 at our local forex)
- Philippine Passport (must be valid at least 6 months before expiry date)
- Completely fill up the Philippine Immigration Form (provided by Cebu Pacific when you check in)
- International Roaming set on your mobile phone. Here is from Globe Telecoms.
When you arrive at the Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) , you would probably need to know these:
- You need to fill up the Hong Kong Immigration Form (it has an Arrival form and Departure Form)
- From the plane you will take a train to the terminal (this is free)
- Give the Arrival form to the immigration officer and you keep the departure form.
- You will see there is an HSBC ATM inside the terminal, convenient if you have an ATM that has the symbols posted on the machine (Plus, Mastercard, Cirrus, Visa etc).
- In the terminal you will see familiar stores like Starbucks, 7-11, Watsons etc.
- If you have no roaming phone, buy a local SIM card, worth HK$60 from China Mobile Limited.
- Money to pay Airport Express MTR from the terminal to the city (I paid HK$90 from HKIA to Kowloon).
- Trains here travel so fast it’ll hurt your ears just like what you feel while on a plane.
- Money to pay from Kowloon terminal to your destination (I took a taxi and paid HK$34 from terminal to The Kowloon Hotel)
- Alternatively, you can take the CityFlyer bus if you want to take the longer route to the city.
Here’s how to go to the Hong Kong Disneyland Resort:
- Take the nearest MTR and connect your train route until you reach Sunny Bay station. From there you will see a train that look like this, which takes you to Disneyland. Here are some pictures when you arrive.
- From Hong Kong station under the Two International Finance Centre Building costs $23.5 and takes about 20mins to the Sunny Bay station.
- Distance from Sunny Bay station to Disneyland is 3.5 kilometers and takes 3.5 minutes to travel (that’s 1 kilometer per minute!).
Here are some tips when you are now ready to leave Hong Kong and return to your own country. :
- If you prefer to take pictures while going to the airport, find (or go ask people) the A21 Cityflyer bus stop. This bus takes your directly to the airport in a hour. (from Kowloon to Airport is HK$33.00)
- If you are in a hurry, take the MTR nearest you and follow connecting routes until you reach the airport. Check out this MTR route map i took for reference. Travel takes an average of 30mins from Kowloon)
- There is no terminal fee of travel fee to be collected.
- Checking in takes about 1.5 hours in my case. So be sure to arrive at least 2 hours before the flight.
- Don’t bring liquids if possible. If you need to bring one, make sure you have it tightly packed following their standard package rules.
- Laptops are checked separately, not sure if this means they’ll check for pirated software :-P
- There are hundreds of stores inside the terminal. If you forgot to buy pasalubong, you can buy from the terminal instead.
Some tourist spots in Hong Kong I missed because I only stayed there for 3 days and only had 2 days to go around :(
- Avenue of the Stars
- Ngong Ping 360 (Cable Car in Lantau Island)
- Hong Kong Tramways
- Mong Kok (recommeded by friends for buying cheap goods)
- lots more later!
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Posted on November 21, 2008
Jehzeel Lauretne Says:
I’m gonna ratimark this post, useful pag pupunta ng hong kong :)
joyzee Says:
when did you go to HK? i took a vacation there just this week.
Alfredo Says:
@joyzee, twas last nov 21 – 23 :)
joyzee Says:
same date with me. am wondering if we took the same flight.. ;)
Pepper Says:
Hi!
Is there a terminal fee for NAIA 3?
I would like to clarify this: “There is no terminal fee of travel fee to be collected”
so there’s no terminal fee for the Hong Kong Airport?
Thanks!
Alfredo Says:
yes if you leave manila you have to pay the terminal fee, manila to hongkong is P1750. walang terminal fee sa hong kong airport.
gia Says:
bakit kaya ang mahal naman ng terminal fee ..as in 1750..akala ko 300 lang.. my friends are going to hk this coming march…4 days compact trip..
jessa Says:
Hi!..I want to say that there are Hongkong residents that are originaly from other country who are now sponsoring there fellows to come to Hongkong as tourist and then find a job there.Is that okey?specially those who are from Tsim Tsa Tsui.