HK Tidbits

Coming to you live from the Silver Kris Lounge in beeeeyoutiful Hong Kong International Airport…
Some random pieces of advice.
There is no affordable (nee, reasonable) lodging near the airport. None. Zilch. There’s an extorbitantly expensive hotel attached to the airport. No transit hotel like Singapore Changi’s. So if you fly in late and then have to fly out early next AM, you’re pretty much stuck in Kowloon. I stayed at the Star Guesthouse. It’s only a HK$30 ride to the Kowloon AeX station and it’s close to TST and the MTR. Small clean rooms. And no, I don’t have a picture. Too tired last night and too early this AM. But it gets my stamp o’approval as a cheap clean place to crash.
If you have an early AM flight to catch and are jonesing for a Sausage McMuffin with egg (in my humble opinion, the best travel food EVER), there’s a McD’s in the airport arrival hall. Most of us see it when we arrive into HKG. But the best part is that the prices are the SAME as in town. No ripoff markup here.
And the UA ground staff here know the score. As I was checking in for today’s flight to Tokyo, even THEY acknowledged that UA service sucks. And the food sucks. And the “flight attendants” were a bunch of baat poh. Although I had to say that first before heads nodded.
ha ha ha! But the Red Carpet Lounge here ain’t that bad. It’s pretty nice with big ass windows so you can see the gates and the airplanes. Also, they have FREE wi-fi here. Unlike SFO’s Red Carpet Club. Thanks SFO Airport Authority!
Being on UA is going to take some getting used to as I flew SQ from HKG-SIN-HKG. We got good food, beeyoutiful service and ice cream after dinner! Not to mention seat-back entertainment with on demand movies, yadda yadda yadda. Which we dun get none of these on UA. Period.
Like I said, this is going to take some getting used to…