Hong Kong 15 (inglés) (Lonely Planet)

This well organized, smartly designed travel book makes doing Hong Kong easy. I was staying on Lantau (outlying island, connected by speed rail that takes 11 min to Kowloon and 20 minutes to Hong Kong) for business for six days, and this book helped me target which parts of Kowloon and Hong Kong I wanted to hit when I went on in. Not much I need to say about this, other than it was great. So many detailed maps makes getting around simple. Here are some things you should check out/pass on. HIGHLIGHTS: -Tian Tan Buddha (pg 193). Big ol' Buddha statue (50 feet tall) built on top of a lush jungle peak on Lantau, accessible by bus or cable car. Cable car was fantastic, offering views of HK, hilly jungle landscape, and the Buddha as you approach it. And if you thought that transforming religious or cultural icons into moneymaking ventures was only an American tradition, then you were wrong! There's a gift shop in the base of the Buddha. -Star Ferry. Crossing from Kowloon to downtown Hong Kong, it is a great experience to take in the cityscape in either direction. Not to mention it's $2 Hong Kong dollars, which is like 37 cents or something silly cheap. -Kowloon Jade Market. Just a great experience as well. Have fun searching for nice jewelry and negotiating with the locals - they will punch a number into a calculator, hand it to you, you punch in the number you want to pay, and then they shake their head crazily like you just offered to shoot their dog. -Man Mo temple. -Yuen Po Street Bird Garden. Shout out to the dudes at the basketball court across the street that let me join their game and then didn't respect my jump shot ('MURICA!) -The Peak. So awesome. I wish more cities were built into the side of huge mountains. -Hong Kong Zoological & Botanical Garden. So many fun monkeys to watch. Reptile house about the size of an airplane lavatory. -Hong Kong Art Museum. Although the art leaves something to be desired, the casually dismissive and ridiculously critical plaques accompanying the artwork is high comedy. -Hong Kong taxis. You can get across the city for about 45 Hong Kong dollars. That's like 6 bucks. Saves a ton of time. -Dining: Typhoon Shelter Hing Kee Restaurant (pg 150) in Kowloon was fantastic. It might be under a different name, but had a great food - especially the flash fried crab with the fried garlic. The book is accurate that you should ask how much everything costs. One Dim Sum in Mong Kok was the best dim sum in the city for cheap prices. Bathroom is outside in an alley way, tho LOWLIGHTS: -The goldfish market (pg 148) takes about 30 seconds to walk through and smells like you would think a goldfish market would smell. -Hong Kong Museum of History was closed for a special event when I tried to go there, which is unfortunate as I was really hoping to see if the government redwashed anything. -Dining: City Hall's Maxim Palace. You'd think with 2500 staff working they would have been able to take our order within 30 mins, right? -Hong Kong water. DON'T DRINK IT. -There's a Starbucks on nearly every corner, in case you want Seattle coffee in Hong Kong. In conclusion: loved the book, really enabled my traveling partner and myself to see the city, let me know if you have any questions!

Guide was very helpful for a 2 week trip to Hong Kong, wife read it twice. Only negative is there were a few things missing that she found out about when it was too late. Chinese Junk tour (Duk Ling) would have been a good addition to the book and highly recommended by local friends. Really worth reading when you are lost and away in another country.

This book was organized in an easy-to-use fashion for this city, even down to describing which exits to take from the metro for certain sights and how to pay for the tram. It also had lots of tips and random information I found very useful. Overall, it was 99-100% accurate. I can't recall ever finding something which wasn't like the book described. Even the things it said would be worth the trip were worth the trip, and things it said to skip should have been skipped. This book made my trip (and I was there for 9 days). I wish some of the map inserts were more detailed, but that would actually make them less useful for just getting oriented. Don't be lazy like me, and pull out the big, detailed map in the back if you're trying to navigate. It was plenty detailed. Overall, this book is one of the best travel guides I've used yet. (As an aside, if it's not clear from the book, if you're going to HK, definitely spring for an Octopus card. It makes everything much easier.)

We much prefer the eyewitness travel books. This one was dry and hard to read in comparison. We reordered a hong kong book written by them after finding this one frustrating.

I have had real frustrating experiences with travel guides in the past, with no real helpful information and everything mixed up and hard to find. This guide is quite the opposite, It almost made me my whole trip, I spend a whole week on Hong Kong having lots to do in each day, visiting museums, temples, markets, etc with nothing more than my guide and a little map I bought at the airport. I just loved the fact that everything is ordered by zones, so if I was interested in visiting a Temple, I could also check what other tourist attractions were nearby. It was a great vacation trip and most because of this guide.

We are on our way to Hong Kong in a few weeks, and this guide has proven invaluable with information we need, and often enough with information we didn't know we need, but found useful. The pictures are lovely and often lead us to look into a site that we might have overlooked. So we're glad we came across Lonely Planet's Hong Kong City Guide.

It's good to have for anyone travelling to hong kong. Contains everything from top places to visit, food, culture, local transport etc.

We just returned from our trip to HK and while we had friends who leave there to show us around, the Hungry Planet guide was invaluable for trip prep, reference while we were there, and now after, to review what we saw (and yes, what we missed and need to see next time!). A tip in the guide on a great, historical novel with HK as a backdrop was worth the price of the guide by itself!

This HK guide has a lot of information. What I'd like to find moreover would be some cheap places where to eat or to sleep and more places to have fun. For the cultural aspect, it's really complete as usual.

Ottima guida lonley planet una garanzia. Peccato solo che non ci sia piu una versione in italian ma se si conosce un po di inglese non si fa nessuna fatica a seguire questa. Da consigliare.

Very comprehensive coverage of Hong Kong and Macau and if includes additional info on the nearby mainland cities of Guangzhou and Shenzhen. There's plenty of maps with all the detail needed.

great price

Kompletter Reiseführer für mehrere Woche Hongkong. Kritikpunkt: Lonely Planet ist nach eigener Aussage bemüht, bei Lesern auch sprachlich für "fun" zu sorgen, bewirkt dadurch aber bei den geschätzten 50% nicht-native-speaker-Reisenden mit dem "locker-flockigen" (das z.b. würde auch kein Ami verstehen) Backpacker-Vokabular, das auch Wörterbücher kaum übersetzen können => alle paar Sätze für Versteh-Frust. Dass es sprachlich auch in normalem Englisch geht, zeigt z.B. Triposo. Deshalb fanden wir zusätzlich den deutschen Marco Polo Hongkong wohltuend. P.s. Für uns war Hongkong die coolste und in der Gesamtwertung beste Reiseerfahrung einer Weltreise!