Before the trip
11:16 AM
Whenever I go to Changi Airport, I always envy those people who are carrying a luggage. It seems that all of them are going on a holiday, enjoying themselves. The excitment shown on their face waiting for their flights to their "paradise" makes you really want to go on a holiday!! And thus, I start to build on this force of power and passion and decided to plan a trip not with my families but with my friends.
I don't want to go to Malaysia because it is very common and somewhat a familiar place and I had been there many times. I don't want to go to Thailand, Vietnam or other ASEAN countries because it doesn't look safe right now and if I were to plan my 1st ever free and easy overseas trip to a place where I am not so familiar with their language, culture and place, it will gonna be a very stressful trip. Yes, we can go on a tour guided tour but I would prefer free and easy because you can go to the place that you like at your own pace and time. Thus, I decided on Hong Kong as Hong Kong is similiar to Singapore where their transport is easily accessible and the place is safer and thus all the itinerary is easier to plan.
Initially, our plan was to go on a 6days Hong Kong trip. But due to some reasons, we changed our trip to a 9days getaway and we started to think which destinations should we go as we can't possibly stay in Hong Kong for 9days. The closest city to Hong Kong is Shen Zhen and Qi Jun suggested Zhu Hai which is a 3hr drive away from Shen Zhen. Thus we decided on these destinations. Macau was included in one of the destinations because we chose to fly on Tiger Airways which fly us from Singapore to Macau. So it will be wasted if we didn't visit Macau.
So the plan was to fly from Singapore to Macau, take a ferry to Hong Kong and stay there for 3 nights before proceeding to Shen Zhen which we will be staying for 2nights. After that, we will proceed to Zhu Hai for 2 nights and toned at Macau for 1 night.
We have decided to hire a tour guide in Shen Zhen as we are not really familiar with that place and the crime rate there is rather scary. So for safety reason, it is better to hire a tour guide.
Regarding accommodation for Hong Kong, we stayed in a hostel as it is much cheaper compared to a hotel. After searching through the online review, we found out that this Dragon Hostel at Mongkok has a lot of good reviews and thus we decided on it. As for the accommodation in Shen Zhen and Zhu Hai, we stayed in a Hotel as it is really cheap. For Macau, we didn't stay in a hotel as we will be catching our flight back to Singapore the next morning, so why not don't waste time on sleeping and spend more time on exploring Macau?
As times get nearer, everything like our accommodation, our transport started to be in place and we were ready for the trip on the 11th of March. So are you ready for this trip?
Here are some of the price list if you guys wish to know:
Accomodation in Hong Kong and Zhu Hai- around $25/pax/night
Tour guide fee in Shen Zhen(including transport, meals and accomodation)- $105/pax for 2 days
Transport from Shen Zhen to Zhu Hai(25 seater car)- $340/car
Return Air Tickets(include everything)- $320
Here are the group of people who were on this trip
Cheers~
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Ricky Peh
