It's been quite some time for me not posting anything here, eh? I got no ideas, pretty much. Lol.
I'll go casual this time. I'm telling you about my time when we, K and I, visited Macau and Hong Kong. Let's begin...
We woke up that day, October 19 2013, at 4 am and got ready to catch our flight on 7.30 am. We had enough time for sure. After 2 hours flight to Kuala Lumpur, yes we had to make a transfer since we booked low cost flights, and 4 hours flight to Hong Kong, we found that Hong Kong International Airport was huge. It was my first time there though I had visited Hong Kong before.
According to plan, we would go straight to Macau by TurboJet. Passing the immigration we looked a signboard that pointed to the right if we liked to go to Macau. But we ignored it since we hadn't got our luggage. So we went out. After got our luggage, to make sure, we asked an officer there how to get to TurboJet. He said that we should go to Sheung Wan first by bus, it was a half and an hour journey. It made us confuse that we just saw the sign inside. The fact was we shouldn't go out, we should go as the signboard pointed. Somebody would got our luggage. Damn!!!!!
Having no other choice, we went to Sheung Wan. The bus costed us HKD 40 per pax. If you are planning to go to Disneyland, buy ticket at Disneyland store at Terminal 2, you'll get an umbrella if you buy 2 or more tickets.
Long story short, the bus ride wasn't bad at all, HK at night was beautiful, and we got to Macau about two hours after. The TurboJet costed us HKD 184 per pax, cheaper than if we went from the airport, it would cost us HKD 246.
Last time I was in Macau, there would be some free shuttle buses, owned by casinos, outside the port, we could get on one of them and they would take us to their casino. I did that before and took a taxi to my hotel. But that night, there was only one bus, and I had no idea the location of the casino it was belong.
We thought about taking a taxi but we took a bus instead, it would be way cheaper. And it was, we paid HKD 3.2 each. Taxi would cost us HKD 40, I supposed.
The bus dropped us on a street we had no idea where. The map that the hotel gave us didn't help a lot. I don't speak Hong Kong and neither do my better half. Not many people in Macau speak English nor Chinese. When we studied map at the crossroad, an old man asked where we wanted to go. He was speaking Chinese.
After some confusement, we finally found our way. The hotel itself wasn't easy to find. It was a guest house. We booked it because there wasn't no hotel that matched our budget available for that night. It was located on a 2nd storey of a building. We had to take our heavy luggage through a narrow stairway just to get to a receptionist, an old man who didn't speak English or Chinese. We managed to get to our room, well, it was hardly a room. *sigh*
The room was small. It had one "double" bed which was only 1.2 m wide, a sink, an old table and a cupboard, which when I opened my better half told me to shut it, afraid there would be something crawl out, and an old fan. Oh yes, there was a rope tied on the both side of the wall to hang your clothes. Did I say wall? It wasn't wall, it was more like divider between rooms. I could clearly hear the conversation in the next room. But the worst was about to come. It wasn't clean! I found the dust bin was full and some fluids came out of it, ewh! There were some blood stain on the bed sheet.
"I don't know if I could sleep here," I shook my head toward K.
"Well, we'll leave early in the morning, dear," then he covered the sheet with the a blanket the guest house provides. I doubted the blanket was clean but at least we didn't notice any stain.
We cleaned ourselves and went out for dinner. It wasn't far from Senado Square. There were many people there, some were having chit chat, some were taking photos, and the others were just walking around. It was 9 pm. I loved it there. We spent about an hour there before we called it a night and headed back to hotel. It was a tiring day.
K fell asleep as soon as he hit the bed. I, on his side, found it hard to sleep. People next door were talking all night, slamming the door when they came and went out. And my body was rejecting that very room somehow. But then I fell asleep.
It really ain't a good day for us, spending almost 12 hours to get to that city, getting lost, sleeping in a dirty "hotel". But in the end of the day, it didn't matter. What matters was we were there, together, safe and sound, ready to spend the other 7 days, enjoying each other's company in a busy yet lovely countries.
I guess it is enough for one post. See you again "tomorrow". And, the hotel price was HKD 290. (Damn, I could get a way better budget hotel in Jakarta with that very price).
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