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Old Dec 11, 2018 | 12:10 pm
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Originally Posted by beep88
Amenity: used limousine transfer to the airport (posted price: 1200HKD). Typical 100 USD credit at other local FHR hotels would be equivalent to ~720 HKD. It's a Mercedes S class limousine. At the destination hotel staff provided luggage service from curb side to check-in counter. Regular taxi transfer would be ~400 HKD.
I don't know if I would "value" the car transfer at the stated price, just like I don't value my airline mileage redemptions on $25k first class fares at that level.
Especially when the alternative is a US$4-5 taxi ride and ~$8 Airport Express ticket (half-R/T via Klook) that probably gets you there faster. Frankly, it's one of the reasons I didn't choose the Island Shangri-La on a recent trip. In general, I wouldn't put that much value on an airport drop-off, especially in HKG. A pickup after a long flight is worth incrementally more, and especially if it's an unfamiliar place to me where a language barrier might exist. We did stay at the Metropole in Hanoi a few years ago and requested an airport pickup on the FHR rate (I didn't realize the benefit specified a trip TO the airport, but the concierge agreed to pick us up anyway, as we already had separate departure arrangements), in a nice big BMW, which was definitely nice, but I'm sure I wouldn't have paid retail price.

In any event, thanks for the report on the hotel!
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