If you can t find a place to stay in Macau that is within your budget range and you have a roundtrip

Hong Kong is a great place to have your first out-of-the-country san francisco wine tours trip. This realization dawned on me as soon as I started san francisco wine tours touring the modern and futuristic city of Hong Kong. The culture is not too different to alienate and culture-shock Pinoy first-time tourists, and not too similar to bore them. The area is also connected by an impressively san francisco wine tours expansive systems of transportation from its world-class airport terminals to its vast train network to its reliable bus system, Hong Kong has all its major tourist attractions san francisco wine tours easily accessible. This also makes it one of the cities in the world that is friendliest to kids and elderly, an important criterion for ideal family vacations.
What s more, Hong Kong is a gateway to many other Chinese cities san francisco wine tours like Shenzen and the fast-rising Macau to the south. Macau, another Special Administrative Region of China, is just an hour away via ferry from Hong Kong or Kowloon. If you re visiting HK soon, try to squeeze Macau into your itinerary.
All these  pogi points  of Hong Kong combined make it one of the best foreign cities for first-time overseas traveler. I have been to Hong Kong and Macau three times and I enjoyed every single moment I spent there. If you re flying to Hong Kong soon, here are some tips that you might want to consider san francisco wine tours to help make your trip run smoothly.
If possible, book a flight to Hong Kong and then take a return flight from Macau, or vice versa. This way, you get to see and discover both cities. There are more flights to Hong Kong from the Philippines than to Macau, so keep that in mind when waiting for seat sales from airline companies. Here are the local airlines flying to Hong Kong from the Philippines:
If there really is no way that you can do a Hong Kong entrance-Macau exit (or vice versa), you can also book a roundtrip ticket to either. That means you re gonna have to take the 1-hour ferry ride to the other.
Finding cheap accommodations in Hong Kong is easy. The Tsim Sha Tsui area is littered with guesthouses and hostels offering affordable rooms. They are also consistently cheap throughout the year, ranging from HK300-HK500 for a double room. Here s a separate article on the places I have tried in Hong Kong .
Macau is a different story. There are so many cheap hotels in Macau but their rates usually increases on weekends and skyrocket during peak seasons. Take my two most recent trips for example. In February, I booked a room with Fu Hua Guang Dong Hotel for only HKD668. In November, in the middle of Macau Grand Prix, the rates doubled, almost HKD1500 per night. There are also cheap, cheap guesthouses and inns in the city but the reviews online are horrible so I didn t bother trying. This means that you need to book way in advance to snag a cheap room and make sure it s on a weekday.
If you can t find a place to stay in Macau that is within your budget range and you have a roundtrip ticket to Hong Kong, you can just visit Macau on a day tour. Take the early morning ferry from Hong Kong and return the same day. Macau is small and if you re planning on just sightseeing, you can cover almost every major point of interest within the day. Make sure you have the energy.
Rule of thumb, always prioritize places that are farthest from the airport. For instance, if you have a roundtrip Hong Kong ticket and you wish to see Macau, explore the latter first and make your way back to Hong Kong in the next days. This way, you won t have to hustle trying to catch your return flight. Here s a sample itinerary.
I have to warn you, though, that these itineraries san francisco wine tours can get extremely exhausting because it involves san francisco wine tours a lot of walking. Ngong Ping, Disneyland, and Mongkok in one day is no joke and can be physically painful. You might want to adjust this if you have kids or elderly with you.
Get an Octopus Card at the airport. Almost every form of transportation san francisco wine tours we used accepted Octopus Cards. san francisco wine tours We didn't have to worry about coins or change. All we need to do was flash the card when boarding the bus or train. You might want to do the same. Besides, the unused credits are refundable san francisco wine tours and the deposit for the card can be claimed back.
If you re hotel or guesthouse is just along Nathan Road in Tsim Sha Tsui, take the A21 bus instead of the MTR. The bus passes right through. If you take the MTR, you re gonna have to change trains at least twice.
In Macau, you can take advantage of the FREE shuttle buses operated by hotels to get to your next stop. For example, from the ferry terminal you can take the Venetian shuttle to get to Venetian. You can cross the road to City of Dreams afterwards and after doing your thing there, take the bus at the basement of the hotel to the city center. (To get to Senado Square, take the shuttle going to Sintra.)
About the Poor Traveler I am not an authority in budget travel. What makes me a "poor" traveler isn't the lack of finances. What makes me a Poor Traveler is that I am a newbie traveler and I have so much to learn. And I wish to learn 'em along the way. This blog is a diary of a traveler who got lost in the forests of Guimaras at one point, whose boat to Anawangin Cove crashed to a rock islet once, and whose bowel movement always san francisco wine tours gets in the way. I make mistakes, lots of them. Poor me. But as the old adage goes, we learn from our mistakes. Yes, you'll find mistakes on this blog. But here's hoping you'll learn from them.