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I have not been updating for a long time, sorry for being away for so long. I was quite busy with work earlier and we just came back from Hong Kong 2 days ago. Yeah, we…Hubby, Zoe and me brave the TVB-land for a couple of days. It was a really good trip, thou we were dead tired by the end of each day. There were just too many shoppings, too many staircases, too many people (every square feet seems to have somebody standing there especially the nite markets)…and just way too many interesting stuffs…

I will go slow here for the documentary of our 1st overseas trip with Zoe…hehehe…please bear with me. Start with the shelter hotels that we stayed. This is a purely free and easy trip, no agents involved at all, we book everything from flights to hotels and transport via the Net. Armed with maps and a mini compass…we trek on our own in this urban jungle of Hong Kong…hahaha

 
Mommy woke me up at 4am and told me we are going to Hong Kong. I was not in the mood in such unGodly hours but after I see the airplane and so many people, I am all happy again!

 
BP International Hotel in Austin Road, 5 mins drive from Kowloon station and 5 mins walk from Jordan MTR station and also Nathan road. The location is good since we are travelling with a toddler and stroller. We spent 3 nights in BP

We were upgraded to the Harbour Parkview room at 20th floor (Executive floor) and I was so pleased with that. The room has a nice view of Kowloon park and the harbour. We booked the room earlier via HK tourism board at HKD850 nett per nite inclusive buffet breakfast (3rd nite at HKD800 per nite), but got upgraded to this executive floor room which cost HKD2.1k per nite…kekeke

The room comes with mini bar and some mini liquor. What else is not mini in HK? Suprisingly, the price of these items in the mini bar is reasonable and almost the same price with 7-eleven or the supermart downstairs. Anyway, a bowl of instant noodle is about HKD9. There is a cold and hot water dispenser near the pantry of the floor and there is even a shoe shine machine (all FOC)

The toilet is small but clean, comes with all the necessities - toothbursh, shampoo, conditioner, towels, shower caps, cotton buds, and etc. 

The view from our room - Kowloon park, buildings at Nathan road and part of Harbour city and the harbour. At the distant, we could see Hong Kong island and the multitude of highrise. It was hazy, so this is what we could get… 

The pool in Kowloon park, there are always people swimming there starting as early as 8am till almost 10pm at nite. The monument of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing is still there - promoting the Paralympics games. The neighbouring condo small garden. The condo looks normal and higher than our hotel but I am sure it costs millions of HKD to own one

 
Disneyland’s Hollywood hotel at nite. We stayed 1 nite in this hotel for the last 2D/1N. Mickey Mouse signature motif is everywhere, they really put quite some toughts into designing this hotel.

The room is bigger and comes with 2 queen bed. As usual, Zoe will be the first to sleep on the bed. We paid about RM545 for 1 nite.

We initially booked the Garden View room but got upgraded again to a room with Disneyland view - could not see much actually but the reception was telling us we could see the nightly Disneyland fireworks from our room.

Mini bar, a small pantry and the LCD TV 

 
Everything is Mickey theme, from toiletries up to the bedroom slipper given. It’s really cute! 

I am overall very pleased with the rooms and services given. The staff are very attentive and come to us even when we do not ask for help. They probably see us handling a toddler in a stroller lah.

Next - our journey to watch "The Symphony of Lights" at Victoria harbour…