Winter Hong Kong with Children - Good Bye!

And some comments about the hotel we stayed for 5 nights, L'Hotel Nina Et Convention Center (如心海景酒店). Location wise, it's near Tsuen Wan West (荃弯西) MTR station. However you know Tsuen Wan West is totally out of the way and we have to change MTR lines several times to reach the Central areas. Luckily, there are several shopping malls near the hotel so looking for food near it is no problem. The hotel room is spacious and the bed is big, so that's the good part. There's a good size bathroom too.

L'Hotel Nina Et Convention Center

L'Hotel Nina Et Convention Center - room

Now the not-so-good part. There's no central heating for such a new and modern hotel! I mean, it's fine for people who come from freezing continents, but me from tropics practically feel the draught every single night here. Even though we switched off the air-conditioning (geez, who needs air-conditioning at 10 degree C?), cold air still creeps in probably from under the door. Then the bathroom. See from the picture? It's see-through, it's glass! Even though there's a shower curtain covering it. Now who wants to parade themselves while they are showering/bathing? Only the children sometimes enjoy parading and scribbling words on the glass pane. And the bathtub, OMG, it's so high! I couldn't very well step over it with my bump, 爸爸 have to help me every time and it's made difficult being so high. The children had difficulty stepping into the bathtub too, they had to be extra careful, lucky they didn't slip or fall. So in conclusion, you have to be extra careful if you have young children. If you have mobility problem or if you have a bump (like me) you might want to skip this hotel or ask them ahead if they have a more user-friendly room (we didn't ask as not in the mood to deal with hotel staff). There are no toilets on the ground floor/lobby so you have to go up to your room even if you are urgently in need to find a toilet. The lobby lifts are sometimes very congested as there are swarms of Chinese visitors staying here. We see loads and loads of luggages in the lobby every single day. So if you had to wait for the lift and you urgently need the restroom, hehe.... can imagine how it is? The Chinese visitors are also kind of strange here. We got knocks at least 3x throughout our stay - to borrow phone as their room key didn't work (we asked them go to lobby la, people halfway undressing in the room where got let you in like that??!), another time to ask for help to open the room door for them (apa la, all hotel rooms are the same isn't it, this is not a fancy one). I don't know if they are honestly lost or trying to trick us. Good luck for your stay :D

For our last day, it's just travelling time back home. We left hotel for the airport very early at around 6am. Not in the mood for greasy breakfast so it's really hard on my tummy. McDonald's queue is long like ever, in the end had to settle for a ham sandwich.

Departure Hall at Hong Kong airport

At the waiting area while waiting for our plane, the children get to watch cartoon at the children play area. With kids travelling together, we get priority to board. As 爸爸 checked in online earlier, the plane was changed and somehow the seats assigned to us are one person at the aisle and one at window. We had to ask the other passenger to change seat with us and luckily they are agreeable.

As usual, kids enjoy their in-flight kids meal, and with their new seals