Stanley Market

This time, I would like to introduce stanley market to all of you: )

Stanley Market is one of the place that tourists must need to go when they visit Hong Kong! But there are also many residents can go there once in a while, becuase when you have been there, you won't feel that you are in Hong Kong, base on there have many special things and the scenery is quite good. Accept for shopping you can have a deep breathe right here. And you will find an interesting array of little shops selling silk garments, sportswear, art, Chinese costume jewellery and souvenirs.  While a bit "touristy" if you are a tourist, it will certainly help you to cross off all the items on your souvenirs-to-buy-Aunt-Jane shopping list.  A hard morning of shopping is also nicely finished off by a good lunch at one of the many restaurants, which are the reason that Hong Kong locals also frequent the area.

It's probably best to go in the morning before things get too hot and crowded.  During summer, the weather is very hot and though the market street is covered that merely seems to trap in the heat somehow.

Here is the video that introduce stanley =)!!

Nic Cheng

Citygate

Hi everyone!On behalf of my groupmates , today, I am going to give you a brief idea about one of the shopping mall in Hong Kong. It is located in Tung Chung. Do you know which shopping mall i will go to talk about? It is Citygate outlets.

Citygate is the first and only outlets shopping mall in Hong Kong. It combined with three parts, shopping mall, commercials building and Hotel. The part of the shopping maore opened in 2000. And the hotel was named Novotel Hong kong Citygate. It operated in 2006. In the Citygate outlets, there are more than 80 international brands provide a year discount at least 30% to 70% on the fashion clothes, sportwears, beauty and others. There also have  restaurants and cinema that can provide an entertainment to all the customers. Also, Citygate is near the Ngong Ping 360 and the Hong Kong Disneyland. You can enjoy the day in Tung Chung!!!!=]

Location

Citygate outlets is in Tung Chung. It is ditrectly connect to MTR, Tung Chung Station and Lantau Island bus station. It is very convenient to the customers and the tourists. You can see on the map. Citygate Outlets is near to the Hong Kong International Airport. Tourists can come to Citygate in a short time if they took an airplane. They may live in the hotel which located in Citygate, Novotel Hong kong Citygate. So the tourists can enjoy their shopping in everytime and a convenient way!

Feature

There has five floors in Citygate outlets shopping mall. there has a shopping corridor linking the north and south parts of the shopping mall. Citygate is the first and only outlets shopping mall in Hong Kong. Also, there has a musical fountain outside the shopping mall. And the shopping mall will organize some activites to attract customers and tourists regularly.

Position

Citygate outlets has around 80 well-known international brands names. These include I.T outlets, Espsrit, quicksilver, adidas and others. Citygate is a place where visitors can buy the off-season products in a large discounts that customers cannot buy its in anywhere.

Citygate is a good places for people who want to enjoy dining and other leisure activities in one place!

                          Here is the video that introduce the Citygate!

posted by GIGI HO

APM

In Hong Kong, do you know which shopping mall has the longest opening hour everyday?

Yea! That’s APM!





As the name implies, APM name is integrate with the ‘am’ (Day) and ‘pm’ (night). This shopping mall is to promote the concept of night entertainment. Thus, most of the shops are open until midnight. The concept of night entertainment is derived from the work of the workforce in recent years, more and more time, the pressure is also growing, however, the majority of Hong Kong's shopping malls is only open until ten p.m., so there is almost no place for leisure decompression for thise people. In the view of this, developers set the apm positioned as a specialty store mall business hours so that customers are no longer bound by time, can enjoy shopping and leisure.

The main target of APM are young people, with a total area of more than 60 million square feet. As Kowloon East has been always lack of a large shopping mall, so when apm start open in March 2005 ,it become one of the most popular consumer entertainment place for young people. There has also attracted residents from Hong Kong Island and New Territories East as well. At the lobby, there have a stage which always have performances,this is a major feature of the mall. Many New singer, songwriter and performing groups will be singing and performing here, Besides, apm has also become a popular location for those film companies and record company to held their autograph and premiere campaign.

Architecture

APM total have 11th floors, shopping mall have spent 350 glass wall to create a transparent and non-night-day sense of momentum.
In architectural design, X-site representative of the X Generation Site and surprises (Excitement). The X-site design was inspired by lanterns, using the new building technology, manufacturing, suspended mid-air visual effects. Lighting are always transform from different floors to different floors, leading visitors into a ultra-modern sensory world; X-site is located on the 2nd floor to 6th floor, is the heart of innovation and building suspension.

t:>>park

2nd floor of the shopping mall has a outdoor recreational parks, named t:>> park. The theme park is divided into five regions, the use of the concept of stylish design, natural wood floor mixed with European style and wind. LED lights at night time to fabricate lots of geometric patterns and different levels of light, to create a special environment. In 2006 and 2007 Mid-Autumn Festival, t:>> park had set plenty of professional astronomical instruments, free of charge to the public explore the stars.

t:>> park was awarded the Hong Kong Institute of Landscape Architects 2006 Merit Award for landscape design.

Latest Promotion

You can find out more about this promotion through this link:

http://www.apm-millenniumcity.com/eng/whatshot/whatshot_detail_id=033.php

Enjoy it!!

Summer Law

Langham Place

Langham Place

 Hong Kong people and tourists like shopping in Mongkok, where is the most popular shopping mall in there?

It must be Langham Place. It is a trendy place which include a myriad of

international and local fashion brands, exclusive food & beverage outlets and a cinema. You must like shopping in there, because the decoration of the shopping mall is very attractive and beautiful.

And, it offers a one-stop shopping, dining and entertainment extravaganza for all of you.



 cinema in Langham Place



Decoration

I really like decoration of the Langham Place , it is so attractive!! No matter the outside of the buidling or inside the area are also very interesting. Let me show you some photos:

The name of this decoratio is call " Happy Man "

An exceptional art piece by acclaimed American sculptor Larry Bell.

This is the selling point of Langham Place which is call "Grand Atrium"

Glass wall design, providing a panoramic view of Mongkok from day to night

Intersecting point adjoining the shopping mall, the officer tower and the hotel.

In the Christmas period, they will decorate the place more atmosphere.
Here is the" Crystal castle " in Langham Place, it is very beautiful!

Shops

i.t shop provide many different famous brand such as beams boy, Beams T, Earth Music & Ecology,

Pou Dou Dou, Vert Dense, X-Girl and go on.

You can find something speical in there!

The Langham Place H&M store include the popular Ladies wear, Divided (a young look concept),

Trend (fashion of the fashion), as well as underwear & lingerie.

Most of their products are not very expensive, many people can affordable. Therefore, most of the visitors must go to H&M to take a look!

Convenient

The complex of Langham Place is connected to the MongKok MTR interchange station  an underground passage (Exit C3).

I hope these information can help you, let's go to Langham Place shopping, it must make you unforgetable! Let enjoy it !

Posted by Elsa Shiu

Festival Walk

Now I am going to introduce a Shopping mall that located in Kowloon Tong. Do you know which shopping mall I will going to introduce? I think most of you can guess it!!

Yes,  it is Festival Walk!

Festival Walk is a upper market shopping centre in Hong Kong. It is the biggest and only one shopping mall in Kowloon Tong. It  located in Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong , and located across from the City University of Hong Kong. 

 

There are  217 retail stores and restaurant, a cinema and ice rinksin Festival Walk. It is suitable for the family shopping in there because the shops in Festival Walk are not only suitable for the adult, it also has many child's clothes shops in the mall.NOT only Adult, children can enjoy their time!

                                                        
                                                       

The Cinema in Festival Walk

There are many restaurants in the Festival Walk such as Itamae sushi, Festival China, Pizza Express and others. People can enjoy their meals in those restaurant. However, if you think the prize in those restaurant is too high, you can go to the food court to enjoy your meals. There have a food court in the Festival Walk. We can find different country's food in the food court, so people can eat what they like.

 

How to go there???
It is easy to go!!!The MTR can help you!! Kowloon Tong Stop

Also, you can drive to the Festival Walk and go there by bus!!!
hope these information can help you!=]

post by GIGI HO

Paterson Street

Paterson Street

Which place you will visit every time when you are in Causeway Bay? For me, it must be Paterson Street!

Paterson Street is located in the northern part of Hong Kong Island, is one of the most popular street in Causeway Bay .Starting from the north of Victoria Park Road, KingstonStreet in passing, Great George Street, end at south Yee Wo Street.

In1990s, the southern section of Paterson Streetwas specificly for the bus lane, closed since 2001 to become pedestrian precinct.The middle section of Paterson Streetwas originally for two-way traffic, but in the recent years it already changed to a one-way traffic road and have additional taxi stands.

Shopping

Paterson street is now a popular shopping district for youngers who love fashion. As there had located a lots of brand name shop, such as Max & Co, Amani Exchange, Calvin Klein, Marc by marc jacobs, Agnes b, Y-3…etc.

Dinning

Besides shopping, Paterson street is also a nice place go for dinning. There have different types of restaurant you can choose. If you like western dishes, you can go to the ‘Outback Steakhouse’. If you are a fans of seafood, you can visit the ‘Island Seafood & Oyster Bar’ or ‘Mr. Steak Buffet a la minute’.If you just want to have some light dishes, you can visit the ‘H-Tea-O Tea Garden’, ‘Starbucks’ or ‘Pokka Café’.   

Hope you can find out more when you visit Paterson Streetnext time! :D

Summer Law

HARBOUR CITY

Where is the most popular shopping mall in Tsim Sha Tsui?

That is Harbour City, it offers a wide variety of fashion and trendy brands. Many tourists like to come here because of most the popular brands are focus on Harbour City. Such as Ted Baker, Vivienne Westwood, Moussy, Evisu and Y3. Also, it has about 700 shops, including 50 restaurants and two cinemas.

Why it always attract many visitors come to Harbour City?

Theme decoration

-Harbour City always has the big theme decoration in their entry, it attracts many visitors come to take the photos with their friends.



Hot promotion

It always has the promotion period for the customers; it is very effective to attract more tourists.

That is Lcx Fall Pre-sale up to 40% off

Attracting advertisement

Every year Harbour City must develop a new advertisement ( TV program) to promote their shopping mall. It already invites the star like angelababy to shoot an advertisement.

This is the Spring/Summer2010 advertisement



Elsa Shiu

Fa Yuen Street ( Sneaker Street)

Fa Yuen Street ( Sneaker Street)

Where do you buy the sporting goods in Hong Kong ? Fa Yuen Street must be your first choice.

 Fa Yuen Streetis  also known as "Sneaker Street". It gatherd more than forty shoe shops. You can find your needs there. The shops of Sneaker Street started since 1980s, because Hong Kong raise the sportwear upsurge and begun to develop. Now, it is a unique shopping area.

Fa Yuen Street are located in the centre of Mongkok, Kowloon. You can walk from MTR Station around  three minutes. It is convenient to the tourists to shop because the location of Sneaker is easy to go.         

 

All of the shops are located in the both sides of the street.  Most of them  sell sporting goods such as sneakers, sportwears, trendy sportwears and others. All of these sporting goods can be found in the street. Also, some brand such as Nike, Adidas, puma, Converse and others. They also have their own stores in the street. Second, some shops may sold different kinds of  brands's product  in the shop, you may go to check and compare with different shop to see which shop is the cheapest one. Then, you may save the money. However, although there are more than forty sporting goods shops, there are five operators to manage the shops. That mean is operated by the way of chain stores.So the price maybe the same.


                                

Here is the video about the Sneaker Street!!!!
hope you enjoy !

                                                              Written by GIGI HO

Why tourists like shopping in Hong Kong?

Hong Kong is a amazing place that provides many special products for you to choose!
Also, Hong Kong have many shopping malls such as Langham Place in Mong Kok and Time Square in  Hong Kong Island and others.

Why many tourists like shopping in Hong Kong?

Economic
In Hong Kong, Basic items for sale do not draw any duties, sales tax or import tax. Only specific import goods such as alcohol, tobacco, perfumes, cosmetics, cars and petroleum products have associated taxes.

Business
Convenience is a given, when most stores are tightly lined up next to one another in proximity. Tsim Sha Tsui alone offers more than 600 stores for the visitors.

The Quality Tourism Services (QTS) Scheme

It is also the reason why many tourists like  shopping in Hong Kong. The Quality Tourism Services Scheme makes it easy for you to find shops, restaurants, budget visitor accommodation that you can trust.

It establishments must pass stringent annual assessments showing that they meet high standards of product quality and service. They must:

• Provide clearly displayed prices
• Display clear information
• Ensure superb customer service

That why you should come to Hong Kong for travel !