My plans to do a blog a day while away went by the wayside
due to having too lazy a time…oops.
But here are some pictures of the room we’ve had the pleasure
of staying in the last few days. Now, when I started this blog I promised to
try to steer clear of boring stuff like ‘Here’s some nice food I ate’ etc…but
in this instance I must make an exception. The room we’ve found ourselves in –
due to lack of bookings, we got upgraded for free – has been very opulent
indeed.
The bed is about the size of a king sized bed with a single
tacked on. The ceiling is double height, the décor stark but in keeping with
the resort’s Tin Mine theme (more on that ‘tomorrow’). The balcony is huge,
with a table, a lounging day bed and most outrageously a mock tin bath.
As advertised above, the room definitely is bigger than our
flat at home…but equally, this probably isn’t saying very much for HK’s apartment
sizes.
So far so dull. Sorry.
To be a bit more reflective there is an interesting point to
make behind how impressed we are with this place. I don’t want everyone to
think we have let expat life go to our heads, and started blowing all our cash
on extravagances.
This sort of decadence is the second big bonus of living in
HK travel-wise. In the last post, I talked about the ease of hopping to lots of
exciting places out of reach to the UK, unless you mount a serious expedition.
What goes hand in hand with that is that these, to us Brits, ‘exotic’ spots are
very cheap in relative terms. I’m not going to pretend this resort was dirt
cheap, but it certainly didn’t break the bank and we spent no more for an
anniversary weekend away than we would have at home. The difference is, with
Europe you could probably afford for this price a decent city break to a
European capital in a fairly nice hotel; where here the same sum allows us to
go to award-winning, embarrassingly nice, jaw-dropping super resorts like this
one.
It’s another brilliant perk to having made this jump to HK…and
a tanatalising possibility for anyone coming to see us, as all this could be
yours too if you take a few days away when we’re working…just a thought…
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