Having hit through security surprisingly quickly confidence was high, maybe a little too high but we will get to that.
They have excellent public transport in HK, in fact everywhere but the UK seems to have cracked it and I knew there was an airport shuttle train to the centre so I made my way to a machine to purchase a ticket, I didn’t have cash and the machine doesn’t take cards… stalemate! After searching in vain for a cashpoint I finally gave up and queued for a train ticket. 115 HKD or slightly under £11 I was good to go and the train was even waiting for me, my luck had to change sometime this was all too easy.
I was going to try and be a positive as I can in this blog but I do have to moan about one thing… EE! I spent years with Vodafone and whenever I was away I paid five quid a day to access my call/text/data allowance anywhere in the world. EE don’t have such an option and the cost of data in HK with them is outrageous, I truly wish I’d never swapped, if you intend to do a lot of travelling then stick with Vodafone.
Fortunately there is WiFi pretty much everywhere in HK, even on the aiport train, so I spent the time catching up with people. Then on an almost empty train a vision of Asian female perfection came and sat next to me, result! You never lose it Shrugs you old dog. After several miles of silence I finally decided to say hello, upon which she gave me a look of absolute filth and promptly moved to another seat… I may still have it but I am not sure what “it” is anymore.
As I alluded to previously, I have been to HK before and spent several drunken nights here so I felt I knew the lay of the land. As I arrived into the station I decided I could walk the 3km to my hotel rather than take a taxi, save the pennies and all that. Now two things colluded to make this a bad idea, firstly google maps are terrible for walking with, it never seems to get it quite right and despite the best GPS technology I found my little blue dot was never where I was. Secondly, you can never walk in a straight line anywhere in Hong Kong the road system and bridges make even the shortest walk at least twice as long.
Forty or so minutes later I arrived foot sore and tired at my hotel. I can only assume Hotel Ease Access Wanchai is something of an ironic name because it is anything but Ease to find or access! After walking past it several times I finally found the tiny sign and made my way to the 16th floor to reception.
The room whilst small is actually very new and the shower is pretty good, they even threw in breakfast.
Compact and bijou
Shrugs out