Fodor's Hong Kong, 19th Edition (Fodor's Gold Guides) [Paperback]

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Book Description

Series: Fodor's Gold Guides | Publication Date: December 7, 2004

Take a walk through 6,000 years of Chinese history, visit giant pandas and killer whales, try a thousand-year-old egg, book a room overlooking the botanical garden, or search the stalls for pearls, jade, and gems —Fodor's Hong Kong, 19th Edition offers all these experiences and more! Our local writers have traveled throughout the country to find the best hotels, restaurants, attractions and activities to prepare you for a journey of stunning variety. Before you leave for your trip be sure to pack your Fodor's guide to ensure you don't miss a thing.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Fodor's; 19 edition (December 7, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1400014425
• ISBN-13: 978-1400014422
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 1.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,916,301 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Pedestrian, not much of a Guide and no authority, December 1, 2005

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S. Kolinjavadi "skolin" (New york, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fodor's Hong Kong, 19th Edition (Fodor's Gold Guides) (Paperback)

This is a poor compilation for a guide. Much of the information is not enlightning and you can find better and more accurate information in the free guides in Hong Kong Airport and in your Hotel room.

I have better quality of information from my visit the previous year than this guide can provide.

I'm primarily using it now to see whether it can guide me to the better restaurants this time around, I will let you know if it failed on that count to when I come back.

Don't waste you money.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars simply wrong, January 10, 2007

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D. Schaffer (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fodor's Hong Kong, 19th Edition (Fodor's Gold Guides) (Paperback)

I sure hope that the 20th edition is better, because the 19th edition is simply bad. The information is useful here and there, but there are a number of inaccuracies that are extremely frustrating to a traveler. Examples:

1) The book states that American citizens (or more specifically anyone but UK) can get a day visa at the border of mainland China after taking the train there. We thankfully asked the Hong Kong Tourist Board (a much better source of info, btw) before hopping on the train for a 1 hour ride, because it turns out that this is wrong. You need to obtain this visa in Central or Kowloon BEFORE getting to the Chinese border.

2) The location of sites on the maps is just plain wrong at times. For example, we went on a lengthy walk to find the Cityplaza shopping center, which the shopping-in-Causeway-Bay map clearly shows is located in Causeway Bay. It turns out this shopping center is in Quarry Bay several miles away from where it's annotated on the Fodor map. In addition, ALL the maps in the entire book are very low res, so that often only one in every 5 streets is named.

3) We went looking for a recommended Vietnamese restaurant based on its location on the Fodor map. It turns out again that the annotation/number was in the wrong place on the map, on the wrong street. The right street was only two blocks away (impossible to tell since neither the right or the wrong street was named on the map), which wouldn't be too horrible unless you consider that the book itself says that it's not a neighborhood that is safe enough to be randomly walking around.

None of these alone is horrible, but when you add these mistakes (and others I'm sure we didn't stumble across) together, it simply adds frustration to anyone's rare vacation that should be relaxing.

Don't buy this book.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, March 8, 2005

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lonely traveller - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fodor's Hong Kong, 19th Edition (Fodor's Gold Guides) (Paperback)

No matter how bad remarks were given to the Lonely Planet's edition on Hong Kong, after reading the Fodor's guide I went to bookstore to buy the edition of Lonely Planet. Disappointing, indeed.