1st time need some recommendations

Hello all,

My wife and I are celebrating our 5th wedding anniversary In Hong Kong in November. So far we have booked our plane tickets and nothing else. We are planning on staying 2 weeks. I would like some recommendations on where to stay. I prefer a central location because we like to walk everywhere we can. We are from NY and in our late 20鈥檚 so we are in shape. Usually when we travel we like to rent flats, or apartments. I am having a hard time finding any in Hong Kong. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

1st time need some recommendations

Ashley Apartments, 18 Ashley Road, Tsim Sha Tsui.

2 weeks is quite long - why don%26#39;t you also have a trip to China, or at least Macau?

1st time need some recommendations

service apartments here usually cater long term rentals... and they are quite expensive.

but having said that, you can try this link for short term flat rentals. some are not really central in location but transportation here is efficient

hongkong.asiaxpat.com/property/shortlets/

otherwise you can try some of these links

ttp://www1.gohome.com.hk/service_apt/list/list.php?lang=eng

hongkonghomes.com/serviced_apartments/鈥?/a>

http://www.geoexpat.com/apartments/index.php

http://cityloft.com.hk/

www.cozy.com.hk

www.hstudios.com.hk

www.landfortune.com

www.studiostudio.com.hk

www.apartments.com.hk

www.regentheights.com.hk

www.castlehk.com

http://www.empirestudio.biz/

http://www.onpowerproperties.hk/

2 Weeks may seem like a long time and I actually got the same response last year when we went to Rome Italy for 7 days. Many people kept advising we visit other cities but when we actually got there we wish we would have stayed 10 days! We love to travel slow, we take in everything! We might visit Macau or southern China. But we are still in the planning phase and all we have is airline tickets. Is there a countryside of Hong Kong? Transportation wise should I rent a car or scooter to visit the areas outside of the city? Thats for the replies so far! Keep em coming!

Best to avoid driving in Hong Kong. Drivers are extremely polite (at least compared to here where they are worse than me Los Angeles freeways.) But traffic is very heavy and very slow. Also the MTR gets you just about anywhere you want to go, including the countryside more or less . Or take a bus. There are many walking trails in Hong Kong, well technically a few huge ones but the usually divided up into more doable bits. And wherever you get off the is usually a bus along within about 15 minutes to take you back to town. Don%26#39;t worry too much about where you stay, within reason just about anywhere in Hong Kong is central. See if you can find a map with a decent scale, not one of the tourist ones, it will show you how close everything is.

I%26#39;m going next week for 17 days paying $6300 HKD at The Nest (thenest.com.hk).. only bad thing is its location is in Kowloon near Mong kok

Check it out

WOW the nest seems right up our alley. Have you ever stayed there before? Why is the location the only bad thing? Thanks for the info, that was exactly what I was looking for.

%26gt;%26gt; Why is the location the only bad thing

Sort of like Chinatown in NYC - very local.

Have you stayed there before? Are the rooms clean? Quiet? What is the advantage of staying there vs. a hotel?

Thanks a bunch for your response.

A buddy of mine is currently staying at the nest and it was recommended by him of course.. i%26#39;m not really too picky on the accommodation aspect as I don%26#39;t intend to say in much.. the location isn%26#39;t too bad neither as it is within a blocks away from Mong Kok and a 2 min walk to the Prince Edward MTR station

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