We boarded AirAsia flight AK50 scheduled at 10.30 pm to Macau. The flight was delayed for about 20 minutes, much shorter than I thought. It seems to me that AirAsia’s flights have became much punctual nowadays, as some of the passengers who took the AirAsia’s flights regularly told me. When I travelled to Sabah, Malaysia in 2001, the flights that we took were delayed for 3 hours – to and back!

When on the plane, the chief stewardess apologized for the delay, and then the pilot repeated the apologize again for the flight delay. It would be better if they can replace the apologize with some hot drinks or snacks. 🙂
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Travel itinerary in Hong Kong and Macau? What’s the places that you plan to travel? That’s among the first questions that pointed to me when I met up with my family to catch the AirAsia’s flight to Macao.

But I don’t have any plan to visit what places or fixed itinerary in mind, although I do have some ideas about what’s the more popular tourist destinations in Hong Kong and Macao that consider to be ‘must-visit’, such as The Peak, Avenue of Stars at Tsim Sha Tsui Promenade, “World

After searching around the web and forums such as Virtual Tourist, I finally made the reservation of the hotel, or rather hostel that we’re going to stay in Hong Kong. It’s EastSpider Hostel, which I booked from HostelWorld.

It’s a hard decision to select the hotel to stay, as I am travelling with my parents. so it’s not advisable if the conditions and safety of the hotel is too bad. And Chungking Mansions and Mirador Mansions are notoriously cheap yet cramp, dirty and safety standard in doubt.
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Bought Lonely Planet Hong Kong & Macao Travel Guide at MPH for SGD $35.70, due to hand itchy. Expensive, but cheaper if compare with Lonely Planet guide books on other more exotic destination.

I personally prefer Lonely Planet as I feel that it’s more straight to the point and simple. For in-depth reading and detail background information about a destination, I would look to The Rough Guide or Footprints Travel Guide, which usually bulkier than Lonely Planet. For Hong Kong and Macao, I found a lot of guide books written in Mandarin and Cantonese too in National Library of Singapore, which provides lots of useful information from different perspective from English guide books.
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