Hong Kong Travel Guide

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Inside Dragonair's G16 Lounge at Hong Kong International

February 6, 2012 at 4:20 PM | by | Comment (1)

We've given you a glorious tour of the unbelievable Cathay Pacific airport lounges at the Hong Kong International Airport from The Wing to The Pier but today we're taking you inside the less-exciting G16 Lounge of Dragonair, a regional carrier of Cathay Pacific.

Located at, as its name indicates, Gate 16, the lounge overlooks the gate area up on high—sort of like a Loft Lounge. The seating areas are very traditional (no Solus pods here) although plentiful. The self-service refreshment counter features plenty of drinks and finger snacks (both Western and Asian, alcoholic and non) as well as coffee and cappuccino.

There's also a kitchen with an on-site chef to prepare Hong Kong specialties like fishball noodles. (We were hoping for some Dan dan noodles like the ones we ate at SFO but alas, we were out of luck.)

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Hong Kong Airlines Will Also Birth a Baby Budget Carrier in 2012

December 1, 2011 at 8:40 AM | by | Comments (0)

Asia seems to be the breeding ground for LCCs with announcements about Peach, Scoot, and Jetstar Japan. Last week the chief at Hong Kong Airlines announced that they'd be doing a regional subsidiary as well. Hong Kong Express will be re-branded and operate as a low-cost carrier to compete with the slew of budget airlines popping up all over the region.

The full transition will take place middle of 2012 and flights will serve mainland China, South Korea, Japan and southeast Asia. Airbus A320s will hit the skies, but what the livery will look like (or even the airline's name), we can't yet be sure.

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In-Flight Cocktail of the Month: Cathay Pacific's Pacific Sunrise

January 7, 2011 at 5:01 PM | by | Comment (1)

As many already know, we have a serious obsession with airline cocktails, and so much is our passion that we've created a whole first-Friday-of-the-month feature called In-Flight Cocktail of the Month, which highlights the special concoctions that flight attendants whip up with only a cocktail shaker, some tiny liquor bottles and a whole lot of hope that it won't make you drunk and unruly.

For January, with the New Year and all, we're thinking champagne! Specifically the Pacific Sunrise, one of a few specialty cocktails offered up on many Cathay Pacific flights, but especially long-haul.

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Inside Cathay Pacific's The Cabin Lounge at Hong Kong International Airport

Where: Hong Kong International Airport, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
December 24, 2010 at 1:47 PM | by | Comments (0)


Our lust for the wonders of airport lounges is far from a secret. Thus, during our recent trip to Hong Kong, we spent the time right before a 15-hour flight not chilling with a book and a tea, but running all around the ginormous terminal, hitting all three of the Cathay Pacific Business Class lounges.

Finally, after taking you inside both The Wing and The Pier, we're now inside The Cabin the newest and shiniest of the lounges, as it only just opened in fall 2010. We shot all of the pictures either right as the lounges were closing or opening, so just know that you'll rarely ever see them this empty.

Right Now: Inside The Cabin lounge at HKG.

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Inside Cathay Pacific's The Pier Lounge at Hong Kong International Airport

Where: Hong Kong International Airport, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
December 24, 2010 at 9:05 AM | by | Comments (0)


One of the many sitting areas in the lounge

Our lust for the wonders of airport lounges is far from a secret. Thus, during our recent trip to Hong Kong, we spent the time right before a 15-hour flight not chilling with a book and a tea, but running all around the ginormous terminal, hitting all three of the Cathay Pacific Business Class lounges.

Finishing up today, we'll show you all we discovered in Cathay's The Wing, The Pier, and finally—the newest and shiniest—The Cabin. We shot all of the pictures either right as the lounges were closing or opening, so just know that you'll rarely ever see them this empty.

Right Now: Inside The Pier lounge at HKG.

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Inside Cathay Pacific's The Wing Lounge at Hong Kong International Airport

December 23, 2010 at 9:45 AM | by | Comments (0)


The lounge entrance

Our lust for the wonders of airport lounges is far from a secret. Thus, during our recent trip to Hong Kong, we spent the time right before a 15-hour flight not chilling with a book and a tea, but running all around the ginormous terminal, hitting all three of the Cathay Pacific Business Class lounges.

Over the next couple days, while everyone endures the cramped and frantic holiday travel season, we'll show you all we discovered in Cathay's The Wing, The Pier, and finally—the newest and shiniest—The Cabin. We shot all of the pictures either right as the lounges were closing or opening, so just know that you'll rarely ever see them this empty.

Right now: Inside The Wing lounge at HKG.

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Foreign Grocery Friday: Hong Kong is a Treasure Chest of Exotic Potato Chip Flavors

December 10, 2010 at 12:45 PM | by | Comments (0)

When we travel, one of our favorite things to do is to pop into a local grocery store and check out the food products and candies we'd never find anywhere else. So we're trying out this new feature, Foreign Grocery Friday, where each week we'll feature some of our (and your) favorite overseas treats. Got a recommendation? Let us know!

There's a world of potato chip flavors out there, and although we consider ourselves pretty well traveled through the exotic flavors, we realize there's still more to be discovered on grocery shelves around the globe...like Mongkok-Style Roasted Sausage Crisps. We picked up a bag of these magical things in a small market in Hong Kong's Causeway Bay neighborhood the other day, and it began a day of splurging on junk food, because Hong Kong has a little bit of everything and we want to eat it all.

The Taste: We ended up with the above variety of chips. From top left, clockwise: Mongkok-style roasted sausage, soy sauce-flavor shrimp chips, MUJI pumpkin chips, Roast Ox chips from the UK, "firecracker lobster"-flavor chips also from the UK, Unagi Kabayaki (eel) chips, and Shichimi-flavor shrimp chips. Right after snapping this photo, we devoured the Mongkok bag and can comfirm that yes, there was a roasted meatiness to it and yes, it makes us crazy excited to dig into the eel-flavor crisps.

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Only a Few Hours Ago in Hong Kong, the Skyscrapers Were Going Crazy with Lasers

December 9, 2010 at 3:00 PM | by | Comments (0)

Hong Kong is a city of superlatives. Tallest...tastiest...techiest...this city knows what to do to attract the attention of the world. But what about the notoriously short attention spans of tourists? Hong Kong doesn't offer many free activities, unless you really love dawn tai chi in the park or long walks through malls, but they did devise the "Symphony of Lights" show in Victoria Harbour. Keeping to the superlatives, the Guinness Book of World Records named the skyscraping light performance "World's Largest Permanent Light and Sound Show," and it could also easily snatch the title of "World's Largest 20-Minute Gathering of Camera-toting Tourists."

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Sharp, Subtly Sexy, and Red All Over: Cathay Pacific's New Flight Attendant Uniforms

December 8, 2010 at 9:27 AM | by | Comments (0)

How many airlines can you name whose flight attendants wear red uniforms? Probably more than you can count on one hand, right? Red—which stands for desire, luck, happiness, health and extroversion—is more than a popular, strong color choice, so it shouldn't be a surprise then that Cathay Pacific stuck with it for their new collection of uniforms, unveiled last night, along with the redesigned biz class seats, in Hong Kong.

We were there of course, because we're not about to turn down a chance to check out in-flight fashion from the moment it debuts. The new uniforms—which are for both male and female crew, from flight attendants on up to managers (but not pilots)—are designed by Hong Kong-born and bred Eddie Lau. His specialties lie more in the couture department, but he's been doing the Cathay uniforms since 1999, so hopefully he's got the whole fire retardant, high performance thing down as well.

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First Photos of Cathay Pacific's New Business Class Seats, Perfect for Sleeping 'In Any Position'

December 7, 2010 at 12:17 PM | by | Comments (2)

And we're back, live from Hong Kong, to reveal the big news that had Cathay Pacific inviting over 3,000 of their most frequent flyers to come check out. Many announcements dropped only a couple hours ago, the most important of which is the debut of newer, wider, fancier business class seats.

We've been rolling through our photos like gangbusters, after posting the very first images online of the new seats via Twitter, and now—without further ado—here are Cathay's new biz seats with lie-flat beds, with the space to allow "passengers to sleep in any position."

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Greetings from The North Pole and How to Follow Our Travels This Week

December 6, 2010 at 5:15 PM | by | Comments (2)

Have you been making your Christmas list? Well, we wish you would have told us sooner because we could have dropped it off to The North Pole for you earlier today. So what if we didn't actually set our feet in the snow, but we did fly right over it on Cathay Pacific Flight 841, direct from New York-JFK to Hong Kong International. It's Cathay's longest flight at a hair over 14 hours flying time, and thus most passengers miss a map moment like the one above because they're busy sleeping through the long flight. Not us, though.

All this week we'll be in Hong Kong for two big reasons. One: Cathay Pacific is due to make many announcements at an event tomorrow and we'll be there, delivering the news fresh and toasty hot as always. Two: Hong Kong is a flippin' sweet city and we'll happily fly to the other side of the world at the drop of a hat for some pork floss buns and shopping at the I.T sale store.

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Hong Kong Gets All the Cool Airport Lounges, Including Cathay Pacific's 'The Cabin'

October 12, 2010 at 11:35 AM | by | Comments (0)

If you've ever flown into or out of Hong Kong International, you'll perhaps know how tempting the VIP airline lounges look, vaulted on mezzanines above the economy passengers milling at the gates below, or tucked away in comfy corners of the airy airport. There's plenty swanky lounges there as it is, but one more couldn't hurt. Yesterday, Cathay Pacific opening "The Cabin," a 4,300 square-foot lounge to compliment the three other Cathay lounges already at HKG.

Of course the lounge has barely been open for 24 hours and already it has a signature drink: a mixed-berry smoothie at the Health Bar. Sadly this drink and the rest of the lounge is limited to passengers flying Cathay in First or Business class or with Silver and higher Marco Polo Club and oneworld memberships.

Now let's talk about the special features...

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