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, thoLOWLIGHTS:-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!

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.)

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.

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.

A complete waste of money. Just the usual tourist areas denoted. Half of the "inside" travel tips are well known or just wrong. One example: Take the free casino trams to a casino to save $, then walk the 2 blocks to the old city of Macao. Don't bother taking the long bus ride to the old city. Just one example of misinformation. There are so many great restaurants in the Hong Kong the few noted are a waste of the printed page, and miss almost all of the really great ones. Eg. by the Star Ferry Kowloon side, inside Star Market has three top restaurants at reasonable (for Hong Jong) prices and excellent food. Reservations are necessary. Not even mentioned. "Great womens' shoe shop on the 4th floor of a Kowloon side shopping mall. A joke. 20 minutes walk from the Penninsula Hotel on Nathan Road to there to find a run of the mill, tiny, same priced shoe store as every other on the street. You want shoes? Get a paid custom made for you at the same price as a retail store. The list could go on as long as the book itself. Want tips???----as a concierge at any hotel, and give the person a $3.00 tip.

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!

I took this with me to a shopping trip in Hong Kong with the girls. It came in handy. We could pass the book around and plan out our trips and show where we wanted to go to the cab driver and they knew where we wanted to go, even if they did not speak much english. I gave it to another friend that wanted to go back.

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.

Hong Kong (Lonely Planet City Guides) As stated in the title, it is the first time I'm almost totally relying on a lonely planet travel guide and I'm overwhelmed by the huge amount of information spread all over the book.I must say I do not appreciate the list-approach through which all places and sights have been laid down, especially because there is really little way to tell what could be more or less important to see. For instance one thing i miss of my routard is the rating system they use to give readers a clue about how a place stands within a specific area - they rate "all sights" from 1 to 3 points.Another frustrating thing is that all throughout the book there is no way to understand where one's going. Each chapter just begins with a list of things to see, eat, drink etc, but no notice is given about history and/or population of any neighbourhood or district whatsoever. There is a state-of-the art section at the end but it is of no use when you're approaching a specific area and what you crave for, as a tourist, is to know where you're gonna find yourself if you go there. You need to go through descriptions of bars, restaurants, markets etc to figure out what the main trends are, but no greater understanding is provided.All along the guide authors keep suggesting a lot of planning, tours.. they even lay out a full 4-days program, but again, they give us so little background about this all that as tourists we're kind of asked to take a total leap of faith - not at all my thing.I saw there is a smaller city guide of hong kong (former "encounters"), which costs half the price. Beside of Macau (i guess), I wonder what added value is there in a book that doesn't allow a longer vacationer to delve into the culture, the mood and the lifestyle of his surroundings.Instead of all the cool designs, layouts and graphics I would definitely appreciate some knowledge that helped me sort out all of the lists in here.Ps: if you felt pretty much the same, I later found the national geographic guide to provide everything LP was lacking of. Hong Kong (Lonely Planet City Guides)

Oh Lonely Planet how disappointed I am in thee!Having come to expect good things from the single travellers guide book of choice I was hoping for an informative yet informal Hong Kong Bible. Sadly, Lonely Planet's latest incarnation failed... Miserably.The latest addition appears to put appearance over content (There's no getting away from the fact that Rough Guides are decidedly ugly compared to Lonely Planet).Here are the problems:1. The included maps are maddeningly awful. Two simple, not covering a wider enough area... Bad, bad, bad! Ask for a free map from your hotel or even better pick up the free MTR map.2. The index - Argh! I just want one index... Not several! Don't expect to find what you want in the index - It's woefully bad.3.The Top Sights - Who chose these? Of all the things in Hong Kong, the HSBC made the Top Sights? Come on!All is not lost however... As one might expect from such a trusted travel source the Lonely Planet authors really do come up trumps with some of the hints and tips nestled within the book (it just might be a bit of a mission to dig these nuggets of information out).

The book is full of useful information and just what we needed. But although it said it was in Very Good Condition the fold out map was actually torn out from the back and several pages had notes written on them. Usually a book saying Good or Very Good Condition is usually intact. The service on the other hand was excellent.

Had a quick visit to Hong Kong and as the guide I had was pretty old decided to get a new copy. It gives you all the information you need from stations to eating places and places of interest. As ever Lonely Planet have done the work for you. A must for anyone going to Hong Kong as the city is changing fast.

Some entries were out of date which was a little annoying.eg. recommended restaurant in Kowloon doesn't exist anymore.Otherwise quite good.