Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Day 2 & Day 3 Hong Kong

Day 2

We planned to meet up with my brother's ex-maid who is now working in Hong Kong. It was her day off and she really wanted to meet up with us. She came over to Mira Hotel with her friend and was so excited to see us.

She took us to Kowloon Park. It is a big park. There is an area where you can view birds. There is also a children's playground. We saw a swimming pool there but it was closed for construction. Anyway, December is too cold for swimming.

After that we walked to the Star Ferry Pier to have a look at that area and take photos there.


Later on we went to Harbour City. I love Harbour City! It has all the big brand names. So we shopped. Not much though since we had company. We swore that we were going to return to Harbour City to shop again.

We then returned to our area and proceeded to the same Mediterranean Restaurant at Chungking Mansion to have our dinner.

Day 3

We woke up early to go to Hong Kong Disneyland. 

We purchased the On-Loan Octopus Card from the counter at Tsim Sha Tsui station for 2 kids and 2 adults. Ulfa is already 4 so she needs a card too.

Adult - HKD150
Child - HKD 70

Each card holds a deposit of HKD50 which will be refunded to you along with the unused amount minus an admin fee of HKD9. The amout above is inclusive of the deposit. So initial stored value for adult is HKD100 and HKD20 for child.

We took the MTR from Tsim Sha Tsui, stopped at Lai King and switched to the Tung Chung Line. We stopped at Sunny Bay and took the special Disneyland train.

Cute Disneyland train


When we reached Disneyland, we took some obligatory photos at the entrance. Then we proceeded to purchase the tickets. We paid for 2 adults (HKD499 each) and 2 kids (HKD355 each). Nuha gets free entry as she is below 3 years of age.

It started drizzling then and some people rushed to get umbrellas and ponchos. My kids and I were wearing hooded jackets thus we were undeterred by the slight drizzle. We saw Mickey and Minnie and a whole lot of people lining up to take photographs with them.

We ate here. This is Explorer's Club at Mystic Point.
There are two halal restaurants at Disneyland. One at Mystic Point and the other is Tahitian Terrace at Adventureland. We ate at Explorer's Club at Mystic Point. Japanese, Indonesia, Korean and Southeast Asian cuisines are served at Explorer's Club.

We got on the rides at Disneyland. Ulfa enjoyed the "It's a Small World' boat ride at Fantasyland the most while Auni enjoyed the Mystic Manor. Nuha enjoyed everything of course, though she did say that she was a little afraid at Mystic Manor. 
At Citygate Outlet. Nuha having fun with the
Minnie Mouse Trolley Bag we got for her at Disneyland.
We spent about half a day there since Hong Kong Disneyland is pretty small.

After Disneyland, we went to the Citygate Outlet which was very near Disneyland. From Disneyland, we took the train back to Sunny Bay. Then switched to the Tung Chung Line and stopped at the next stop - Tung Chung.

We did some shopping. Bought stuff from Kate Spade and Guess. By then it was nighttime and we headed back to the hotel.

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