Originally Posted by
Richardc77
Is the mid to end of April an ok time to go re weather in your opinions?
I was in HK twice last month. Great weather the first time, high 20s and sunny. Second time, still warm, but very foggy. By June it's getting very hot and humid.
Originally Posted by
Richardc77
So if time allows better to make it an extra night?
Anyone have suggestions for hotels, huge choice and so many different areas can be hard to see woods for the trees!
Priority is for museums, culture, food, mountains/cable cars kinda thing
For a first time visit, i'd look for a hotel around the TST Tsim Sha Tsui area, at the bottom of the Kowloon peninsula. Easy access to the Star Ferry and metro, the night markets etc. As CWS said, definitely try and do some of the more rural parts of HK....it's not just a grey city! From the Central ferry terminals you can get a boat very easily to the outlying islands. Lamma has some good restaurants, and a great easy walk from end to end.
If you want to do the cable car, you can take the metro over to Tung Cheng, cable car up to the Big Budda, then take the bus to Silvermine Bay and boat back to Central.
Definitely go up The Peak. I love sitting upstairs on the no.15 bus from the Star Ferry, you get fantastic views. Then you can walk down via Lugard Road to the Pok Fu lam resevoir, then a bus or taxi back to civilisation. Takes about an hour, and is a fab walk.