Half a day in Hong Kong

After passing through passport control and customs to enter the country, we promptly went upstairs to check our bags back in. While it’s no private check-in lounge like we saw in Bangkok or Singapore, it’s still a pretty nice concept with lots of staff at the ready to help out.




Of course, since we were on a flight to the USA, we couldn’t use any of these special facilities, but rather we had to walk to a separate line where a very serious and stern security guard asked us if the bags we were checking we our own and then put a sticker on the back of our passports. It’s always something.



Boarding passes once again in hand, it was off to the Airport Express for the 24-minute trip to Central. Conveniently, same-day round trips are the same price as one-ways.



Surprisingly, now that we were back in the Northern Hemisphere at a slightly greater latitude, we learned that was indeed still February. A brisk 14 degrees celsius.




Off to the maritime museum, which is super conveniently located and a really fun and intriguing way to pass a decently long layover.



Back to Hong Kong Station and back to the airport. I took a look at the in-town check-in facilities, which would be great had we not already checked in at, you know, the airport itself a few hours earlier.