indianapearl - was the restaurant you mention perhaps Yellow Door? Near the escalator? Sounds just l

Beth and I are considering popping over to Hong Kong for a week in late September as a bonus trip. Will the rain have stoppped by then? Should we push it to early October? Any special hotel recommendations? Thanks in advance.
The view if from Kowloon (Tsim Sha Tsui) to Hong Kong Island. In a way, the view exemplifies best places to travel with small children and young babies Hong Kong: non-stop morion, and a googol of lights competing for your attention, with a backdrop of Victoria Peak.
4 hotels best places to travel with small children and young babies have good views of this, and of those 4 2 have excellent views. The 2 with excellent views are the Peninsula and the InterContinental. The Peninsula is a bigger and maybe a bit more formal place (it has a totally different character than the BKK Peninsula). The IC is definitely more contemporary in its design. Both offer extraordinary service. (I've stayed in the Peninsula just once, in the IC a half-dozen times.)
The 2 with lesser views are the Sheraton and the YMCA (no, really). In the Sheraton, only the Towers rooms on the top 2 floors have acceptable harbor views, and that part of the hotel is a very good Sheraton hotel. Very good, but not nearly as exceptional as the IC or Peninsula. The POB has stayed in the Y and can comment on it.
It's a difficult decision between staying in Kowloon or on Hong Kong island. As rizzuto says, Kowloon has spectacular views of the HK skyline, but Hong Kong itself is, in my opinion, a lot more atmospheric.
If you're going for the view on Kowloon side, I like the Intercontinental, anc I certainly wouldn't turn down the Peninsula if offered. Another choice in the moderate price range, but with a view is the Marco Polo Hong Kong Hotel.
On Hong Kong side, a lot has changed since I last stayed there so I can't give a personal recommendation, but I'm very fond of the Mandarin just because it's so much a part of Hong Kong's history (as is the Peninsula).
Late September is still typhoon season. I don't know that you'd achieve best places to travel with small children and young babies much of an edge on avoiding a typhoon best places to travel with small children and young babies by pushing your trip into early October, but I guess statiscally the chance decreases as you get into October. They're just not predictable.
rizz has the views right. Have stayed at the Sheraton and the views are nice at the top of the hotel and not bad from the rest of the hotel. Get a towers room with a view with your SPG status and you should be ok. Our inlaws partners stayed best places to travel with small children and young babies at the IC and invited us over for cocktails and dinner two nights and we got to see their rooms. best places to travel with small children and young babies The rooms we saw were all suites with floor to ceiling picture windows and the most gorgeous views of Hong Kong and the peak but the price......
We also stayed at the Shangri-La Kowloon the first time there. I think we took Kathie's reco and also had a nice harbor view room but the view is more of the Causeway Bay side of HK with a little of the downtown skyline to the right side of the picture windows. Loved to watch the harbor come to life every morning.
Until then, will give my shameless promo for the Hong Kong Peninsula (brief weekend pleasure stays, only), and four rather fine HK Peninsula hotel employees best places to travel with small children and young babies involved with her Rolls Royce transfer service: William, Billy, Tommy, best places to travel with small children and young babies and Leslie. (And don't forget a harbour view room/suite.)
My first trip to Hong Kong, I stayed at the Shangri La. The view is lovely, but as HT correctly points out, it's from a little different perspective than the classic view from the Pen or the IC. As lovely as the Pen is, I would tend to go for the IC, or alternately, the Sheraton Towers (which is the top few floors).
We just booked the air tickets on Continental. $990 per person. Only 20 hours. Following Cicerone's suggestion, we wullprobably stay at Bei Lei for four nights. Any reccos for another spot to compliment?
A perfect bonus trip, and glad to hear that you're back to traveling! best places to travel with small children and young babies We're going to be in HK (first time) as part of our Vietnam trip in February, best places to travel with small children and young babies so eager to read your trip report -- you'll have to assess yourself best places to travel with small children and young babies penalties if it's not prompt and full of details. What is Bei Lei?
One of the great things about staying in a place like Hong Kong is that anywhere you stay is a good area, and Bishop Lei in the Mid-levels is no exception. You can spend hours and hours in the nearby Hong Kong Park -- watching or joining the morning crowd do their Tai Chi, having a great run (with no shortage of hills), and being struck by the contrasting harmonies of the non-stop frenzy of HK side-by-side with the serenity of the park.
Off-beat suggestion for a morning: the Yuen Po Bird Street. Birds are common pets in HK (many apartments are far too small for a dog or even cat), and the Yuen Po Bird Street best places to travel with small children and young babies is where many men take their pet birds for a daily outing. It's a social thing for the men as well as an few hours outside for the tweeters. Sounds odd, I suppose, but I found it to be amazingly interesting.
I will try to get a move on so you can read the Hong Kong chapter of my trip report before you leave! So glad you are planning (another) jaunt....I will give you some eating tips. That is, unless you plan to gorge on lasagna.
best places to travel with small children and young babies Bishop Lei is a great hotel when we stayed there in '98 for a few days. Bedroom with a queen-sized bed, small office-sitting room adjacent. Our last trip in '08 we stayed in a private residence in Western on somebody else's nickel.
best places to travel with small children and young babies Do try the eating clubs (info in the Fodor's HK guide). We went to the Golden Door in Central in '08, entered through a little old office building door, up six floors in a rickety elevator, for a multi-course fixed menu of Schechuan food. When we left, the elevator got dodgy, so we walked down the stairs.
indianapearl - was the restaurant you mention perhaps Yellow best places to travel with small children and young babies Door? Near the escalator? Sounds best places to travel with small children and young babies just like the one we went to on Cicerone's list which we highly recommend Andy (as well as their sister restaurant - pics and menu description on our blog)
I also spent a day at Martha best places to travel with small children and young babies Sherpa's Cooking School best places to travel with small children and young babies in Mong Kok on the Kowloon side -- [ marthasherpa.com ]. It was exceptionally good. We cooked (and ate) three dishes, then she demonstrated (and we ate) three more dishes. After that she took us on an hour-long tour of the Mong Kok wet market. I met my husband at the Mandarin for dinner best places to travel with small children and young babies after and was unable to eat another bite. I'd contacted a couple of other cooking schools, but they wanted a class of ten minimum.
Classic Panda. I was looking at the air reservations and had a tremendous shock when I realized that we were leaving on a day that I had to spend at Dana Farber getting best places to travel with small children and young babies scans. Cannot miss and cannot change. After taking a deep breath, I called Continental and told them the problem. They easily changed our trip to 9/18/10 to 9/26/10 and we only had to pay the increased fare, i.e., $40 per ticket. No change fee. We snapped it up. Once again, I am dependent of the kindness of strangers.
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2. Do you mean the Langham Hotel or the Langham Place Hotel? Both are nice luxury hotels. The Langham has a slightly better location, as it is down in TST and nearer to the Star Ferry pier, etc. It s a block or two east and north of the Salisbury and the Penn. However, best places to travel with small children and young babies to the best of my knowledge, they have no views from their rooms. As I say below, unless you have a view, I don t get the point of staying best places to travel with small children and young babies in Kowloon. best places to travel with small children and young babies The Langham Place is a very nice luxury hotel which is unfortunately, IMO, handicapped by a bad location. It is 2 miles inland in the Mongkok district, which is light industrial and actually retains some of its former red-light district character (but no crime issues or anything, it is Hong Kong after all). This is why the hotel offers such good deals for a luxury hotel. It is only a marginally interesting location, IMO. There is a small wet/veg market that most tourists have no idea exists, because the awful Ladies Market is about 2 blocks in the other direction where the tourists go in hordes for