Manchester to Hong Kong (Easter 2010) £334 return @ Finnair

Just need to find a cheap hotel now!!! Someone near a metro station and/or the tram!!!

newton hotel kowloon on boundary road

stayed there two years ago at xmas time - just 5mins from kowloon underground

walking distance from kowloon town centre (20-30mins) and a few mins walk from yung pao bird garden

I can 2nd that stayed their about 3 months ago, very reasonably priced and good standard. I was there as a backpacker.

Nice place to visit with amazing shopping.

Chung King Mansion - HK$14 per night or about £1 !! Great place for back packers, I lived in Hong Kong for 2 years and this place was great, cheap and had fantastic curries.

Any tips for a 2 week holiday (sightseeing)?

Daylight trip on the return journey. That's a bonus.

Hot for me going to HK as well this Oct for £336.
Grand Plaza Hotel 4*
Transport: MTR, Taxi and Buses
Also there are many markets especially Sham Shui Po (lot of eletronics and gaming stuff)

buddha at lantau island

hk at night from the peak

star ferry trip for about 12p!!

plenty of malls

go to a hk cinema - great experience

young pao bird street (all the bird owners take their budgies there for fresh air - very interesting)

just check online for all the best places to go

oh - get an octopus card (think they're similar to oyster cqard but very cheap to purchase, extremely widely used and so, so convenient)

public transport v easy and cheap

taxis not bad either

i LOVE hk - wish I was there now!!!

Thanks, this is well cheap. I think they are a day late with the Good Friday price though

I think to go back and spend two weeks in Hong Kong would be fantastic, places I would go to see if I went back would be Stanley market on the south coast of the island, Sham Shui Po for the computer fair (all copies of every format you can think of and snake charmers outside), the temples on Lantau/Lamma Island, taking a trip on the star ferry from Kowloon to central (on the lower deck for 60 cents - you end up getting your feet wet !), go up to Sha Tin and see the temple; spend a day in China (I was there when it was still a British colony - 1987, so hopefully these all still exist); you could take a trip through the walled city (!) - we did this through school at the time when it was the only part still chinese within Hong Kong - I think you would still need to be careful; Ocean Terminal shopping centre; go up to the peak for the views, especially in the evening; I would be tempted to spend some time on the tram as well, you will see most of the island on one of these and it will cost next to nothing; the beach at Repulse Bay, and even Stonecutters island (which I don't think is an island any more - the Japanese used it during WW2 for prisoners of war, along with every venomous snake they could find. As you would expect, POW's didn't last long); I would also spend a day in the theme park (which I can't remember the name of. Hope this helps, let me know if you want any more places, there are a few small obscure markets that you can go and visit in the middle of nowhere, especially in the evenings.

I would go back if I could, best place in the world to live and visit

Lantua Island big bronze Buddha take the Ngong Ping 360 they have the new crystal cable cars where the floor is see through.

Take a ferry over to Macau and try your luck in the casino's or just sight see.

Get the tram up to the peak to see a very beautiful view of Hong kong.

Visit the night markets such as temple street & Ladies market its fun for haggling.. (btw never pay what they offer).

Ocean park is pretty cool, they have the dolphin and seal show.

If you wanna go for drinks the best place is lan kwai fong the area is full of Pubs and clubs. The area is full of foreigners (as the local would say) atmosphere is fantastic.

Really depends what you want to do, but Hong kong is mainly about shopping and eating lol.

lived there while studying A levels at St George's for two years - failed them all, and that was after getting 9 GCSE A grades. Even worked in Toys R Us in Ocean terminal two evenings a week and on Saturdays

If you want to Die! That place wasn't exactly nice. Anyway we did stay in a hostel there (Las Vegas Hostel), was £96 for three nights for two of us, although the building is horrible the hostel was nice, rooms were all new and clean etc.