I did a lot of research prior to our trip and most of the info I got came from the Hong Kong Thread of PinoyExchange (PEx). Thanks to commoner who created the thread and to all the PExers who contributed. :)
We were a party of 5 adults and 1 kid (a senior at 62yrs, then 29, 26, 25, and 18 yrs old, and a 2yr-old-kid). The promo tickets were bought in February 2011 (tagal ng paghihintay, hehe).
OCTOBER 29, 2011, Saturday (Ocean Park HK & TST)
The HK Thread of PEx would advise to never do Disneyland and Ocean Park on two consecutive days. In our case however, we had no choice but to do it since we only had about three days to spend in Hong Kong (excluding travel time).
Ryken woke up late again so we were able to leave Golden Crown at around noon. We first went to Mirador Mansion to exchange money at Wing Hoi
(1US $ = 7.75 HKD, lower than last October 27) then we looked around to shop for souvenirs. We found the Cinderford stall owned by two sisters (one was named Alice) and bought several pasalubongs there. :)
Here's the pricelist of the souvenirs:
-Hongkong printed shirts (varied designs and magandang uri ng tela): 5 white color for 100HKD then 4 black color for 100HKD
-HK magnets (yung parang 3d ba na painted): 8pcs for 100HKD
-round compact mirrors and round-shaped bag holders: 6pcs for 100HKD
-wallets for ladies (yung pahaba na kasya nang buo ang bills): 5pcs for 100HKD
-HK baseball caps: 5pcs for 100HKD
-assorted keychains: 6pcs for 50HKD
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| ang mga nag-hoard :) |
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| careful, baby, wala tayong pambayad diyan |
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| Ni hao ma :) |
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| Ryken likes this little umbrella (but we didn't buy this, hehe) |
After shopping, we went back to
Golden Crown to deposit our loot and to buy our
discounted Ocean Park tickets (HKD240.00 each). Sayang nga kasi it was only HKD220.00 when we arrived pero nag-increase ang Golden Crown on this same day (October 29). 'Di kasi ako agad bumili, oh well. We ate lunch at KFC near the hostel. We ordered the KFC Variety Bucket na may 4 original and 4 flava crava (a bit spicy bbq) chicken, 2 mushroom rice, 2 chicken a la king rice, 4 egg tarts, criss-cut fries, 1 box of hotshots(9pcs), 4pcs hot wings, 4 softdrinks then we had additional two sofdrinks, one chicken a la king rice and one mushroom rice for HKD 191.80. Mura na rin. :) They don't serve gravy, you have to pay additional pa so di na kami nag-gravy, haha! Beside KFC is Hoixe Cake Shop (recommended by fellow PExer, delisyus) which is similar to Bread Talk and we bought bread, egg tart, and cake (total of HKD57.50 yung orders namin) for baon to Ocean Park.
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| sign of Hoixe Cake Shop |
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| daming customers |
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| masarap ang bread and cakes nila :) |
We took the MTR to Admiralty and rode Bus 629 to Ocean Park. I think we arrived the park at around 4pm already and we had a problem with our baon because they weren't allowed by the park attendants! I read from other blogs that we could bring our own food. :( We went outside again and since we cannot eat them all at once (we bought a lot, hehe), we just hid them inside our bags. Buti nakalusot :D
