Disappointed HongKong

eventhough i had good times with my fam in hongkong, but it was not met my expectation; so many things disappointed me.

we arrived in hongkong from macau by jetfoil; we took VIP class and paid quite expensive ticket price incl. set meal but surprisingly, it was only couple snack with terrible taste.
we stayed at BP International Hotel in Kowloon; a hotel with spacious lobby but has narrow bed room and small bathroom inside.

the 1st night, we went to clock tower to watch symphony of light; it was nothing compares to musical fountain sentausa island, singapore. after the show was over, we walked towards avenue of stars, but since it had already dark, we could only enjoyed some stars' statue there.

The 2nd day was disneyland day! we bought ticket at hotel and took MTR to lantau island. we stopped by at ngong ping village to see giant budha by cable car for approx 360 m distants.. what a surprise, ngong ping village was not a village! it was just a replica of traditional chinese houses which was used as souvenir shops & restaurants, it was not attractive at all and even we had to climb hundreds stairs to reach giant budha, and with all sanity we had, we right away went to disneyland.

to go to disneyland, we had to take special MTR that decorated with disneyland characters and made us feel like inside the cinderella's horse carriage. all disneyland characters were amazed us, feel so magic being there.. but if the characters were peeled off, i think i would prefer to visit dunia fantasi instead; because hk disneyland was not too spacious and most of the games were more suitable to younger kids. but, anyway, we had a very good time there, we were also get excited at dinner menu, souvenir shops and fire works. we backed to the hotel very late and i started doing my laundry while widi was hunting biten bugs in the hotel room. finally, he got frustated of the bugs and reported to the hotel manager to change our room. we got the same type room, different floor and complimentary breakfast vouchers but... the bugs still there!! capek deh...

we woke up earlier in the 3rd day and asked how to apply shenzhen visa to the travel desk counter at hotel; the lady officer informed that on saturday, shenzhen will only process visa for man (???) we changed the plan afterwards, did not go to shenzhen but went to the peak tower by tramway; the tram was upward to the hill and we enjoyed the city view from the peak terrace, but i like macau view better!

the travel officer information was bothering me because actually I did not believe her for the first time and then i decided to just go to shenzhen as i remembered long time ago i could applied visa on arrival anytime. arrived in shenzhen, we got trouble on the currency, we did not have ones! the money changer was difficult to find, so i walk towards to shangrila hotel to exchange money, but unfortunately they only did it limited for their hotel guest. as i always tell my son to not give up easily, i asked help from one of the hotel guest who really generous to exchange the money for me.. and he did it... aaahhh, finally..

but, it had already dark, so we only visited window of the world with less excitement and kept blaming on the travel officer.. i would never recommend BP international hotel to anyone!!

list of our disappointments:

1. bad food at VIP class jetfoil


2. small hotel room


3. biten bugs inside the hotel room


4. not too good symphony of the light


5. expensive laundromat


6. less adventurer games in disneyland


7. fake village at ngong ping


8. hundreds stairs towards giant budha


9. expensive entrance ticket to the peak terrace (the view was so so)


10. stupid travel officer in the hotel

finally, we left hongkong for one night stay in singapore..