Originally Posted by
Mickidon
The most important advice I can give you is to avoid, at all costs, the first week of October. It is the National Holiday Golden Week and it is utterly unbelievable how crowded places of touristic interest become. That would take the idea of "relaxing" totally off the table.
I agree with a previous poster that adding Beijing would be a good call.
We will avoid first week of October. I have heard about the Golden Week chaos and totally agree that such a week would not be relaxing.
We will not go to Beijing as we have been there before.
Originally Posted by
Antonio8069
Why 5 days in HK? 2-3 days is sufficient. The highlights (for me) were:
- Star Ferries to Kowloon;
- discovering the best restaurants are not at street level a.k.a. look up!
- visiting Shenizen;
- Dragon's Back hiking trail.
We have chosen to stay 5 nights in Hong Kong as it will be warmer there in October. We have a very nice hotel with pool (the Four Season) during these days, so we are hoping for some pool time as well as discovering the city, eating and shopping.