Hong Kong Travel package: Flight and Hotel Part II

This post is continued from this previous post. For this post, I'm going to be talking more about the interior of Eaton Hotel. As with what we would expect of all hotels, everything is clean and neat! This is the view that we were greeted with when we stepped into the hotel room! The room is of a decent comfortable size. The first thing I noticed when I went into the room was: There were no curtains!! So we asked the staff there about it. We were embarrassed to find out that the things that we thought were special walls decorating the other end of the room were actually wooden panels that could be opened and closed!

Eaton Hotel room view

Eaton Hotel room TV

The bathroom was also of a comfortable size with the basics in place. The is also where you can find the recycling bin that I talked about in this post! The bathroom is also clean and nice. Eaton hotel also practices the policy of not changing the sheets if the pamphlet is placed on them and not changing towels unless they have been thrown to the ground in the toilet!

Eaton hotel bathroom view

Eaton Hotel bathroom view 2

All these so far I had expected but what I had not expected was what we saw in the next picture… The blinds beside the dresser could open to see into the bathroom!!! I'm sure this is one of the cheaper hotel rooms because we got it at a discounted price (see the previous post), but we did not expect this type of surprise! This is definitely not suitable for a group of mixed gender friends going out on a trip together! It would be embarrassing if you were in the shower when your friend of the opposite gender chanced upon what laid behind the blind! I'm pretty sure Eaton hotel has other rooms without this feature but this is just to warn future travelers to take note of these situations that could occur when you are overseas!

Eaton Hotel bathroom view 3

Because the hotel room isn't very big, I appreciated the effort of them trying to prevent making the room seem smaller with bulky furniture lying around. In fact, other than the bed, they only have a transparent chair and a transparent stool tucked at /under the dresser! Pardon my jacket that I hung on the chair. Because they were transparent, the chairs didn't look like they took up any space at all, making the room look that much more spacious!

Chairs in the hotel room

Special amenities of the Eaton Hotel: 

The hotel had a swimming pool which neither me nor my mum used. When we got our room keys, we were also issued with a new set of WiFi password (as compared to the temporary ones given to us at the lobby when we left our baggage). I think that Eaton Hotel provides free WiFi for all its guests! My mum and I used the internet to Skype and WhatsApp our family members at home. The WiFi was quite strong and very stable! I was very satisfied with it!

Just opposite of Eaton Hotel was a chain Cha Can Ting (literally translated as Tea Restaurant) that served really yummy food. The food was really good and the price was very affordable! Here is the brochure that I took from the place! Apparently they do delivery too! It was not necessary for us since the restaurant was just across the road from the hotel. Do keep a lookout for the set meals that have for different periods of time! Those sets usually have quite a large portion at just a small price!

Brochure View 1

Brochure View 2

Brochure View 3

The nearest MTR Station from Eaton Hotel is Jorden Station. This is quite a central station and many attractions /shopping districts like Tsim Sa Tsui are only a few stops away. This Queen Elizabeth Hospital exit is the one you take when you are returning to the hotel.

Exit from Jorden Station to Eatan Hotel

Even if you don't travel to other stations, there are plenty of shops along Nathan Street that you could shop at! The shopping malls have many shops that sell very fashionable clothes. Some HK shops follow Japanese fashion, some follow Korean fashion, but mostly the shops follow their own HK fashion. If you are on a budget, forget about shopping at the departmental store unless you are looking for something that is of certain brands. During the last night of our trip, my mum and I chanced upon a night market that was walking distance from Eaton Hotel while randomly walking along the streets.

In the next part, I'll be talking more about the Airlines part of the package! Stay tuned!

Hong Kong Travel package: Flight and Hotel Part I

I don't know if we were just lucky but I felt that my mum and I got a really good deal for my Hong Kong Trip. I was really impressed with the price of the package and the flight included in the package. For this trip, my mum used the website zuji.com.sg to book the package of the hotel and flight. Altogether, we only paid less than $650 per person for the 3D2N trip's hotel and the flight! Here's a picture of the booking details.

Zuji

The impressive thing is that our hotels and flights weren't just any budget hotel and airline but Eaton Hotel and United Airlines! For that amount of price, if it were up to me, I'd have only have gotten either the flight or the hotel not both! Kuduos to my mum for the awesome sourcing! In the rest of this post, I'll be reviewing my experiences for both the hotel and the airport!

Eaton Hotel
This is the first time I am visiting Eaton Hotel. A friend recommended my mum to try out this hotel because she had a good experience there when she was in HK. Eaton hotel is a four star hotel that is located along Nathan Road. If you are familiar with HK, this hotel is just next to Nathan Hotel! My mum and I travelled to the hotel via bus A21 which took around 45 mins. I talked more about the trip to the hotel in this previous post.

First impressions:
Thanks to the display on the bus and our awesome observation skills, we managed to get off at the correct stop. However, we could not find the Hotel! As you can probably see from the picture of the street view on Nathan Road, unless you know what you are looking for, you probably wouldn't know where the hotel is. The entrance to the hotel is located somewhere near the bright signboard. Perhaps it is because I am very used to having the hotels' having big names on signboards that occupies a smaller area, or perhaps it was because we were on the other side of the road where the picture was taken so we couldn't see the signboard with the hotel's name, we did not expect that the building was the hotel we were going to be staying at! I would have expected such a signboard to be an advertisement instead of the name of the hotel!

Traffic View of Eaton Hotel from Nathan Road

This is a closer view of the signboard of the hotel. If they only had a small entrance to the hotel like Park Hotel that my family stayed at during our previous trip, I would have understood the spacial constraints that they face displaying a prominent signboard, but they had the entire corner exposed to the main road!! I felt like it was really a waste of the location the hotel was in. They could have marketed the hotel in a much classier way, using the traditional letters and spotlight method, and saving electricity along the way. (By the way, you can read more about Park Hotel written by Xiaxue here since I'm not going to write much about it.)

Eaton Hotel corner view

So if you are curious about how we found our way, in the end, we ended up asking a shop attendant for the location to the hotel. But believe it or not, we actually almost walked past the hotel to another street. This picture was taken right below the signboard of Eaton Hotel. We were about to walk away from the hotel towards where the photo was taken. Luckily my mum (who saved us again) felt that crossing the road was not right so we walked back where Eaton Hotel was.

Eaton Hotel from the side

If you are going to Eaton hotel, I am hereby going to attempt to explain how to get to the place. First, If you see the scenes in the pictures above, you have walked too far. Walk back towards the direction of the bus stop where you came from. Look for the Starbucks that turns into this street in the picture below with this sign to get into the hotel! The place where the cars turn in is the carpark /concierge. Walk past that. Lastly, when you see a glass door with Eaton Hotel's logo, you have arrived at your destination! Once again, the front door hotel's could have been better marketed. What a pity!

Front door or Eaton Hotel

After we finally managed to find the reception of the hotel, we were still early for our check in. The receptionist was nice enough to hold onto our luggages while we went out to look for lunch and walk around. (When we arrived it was still in the morning!) On top of safe keeping our luggages, the receptionist also gave us a temporary WiFi password for use in the lobby which was really nice of him! The service at the reception is really awesome!

To be continued in part 2…