Hong Kong (Insight Smart Guide Hong Kong) [Paperback]

Insight (Creator)

Book Description

Series: Insight Smart Guide Hong Kong | Publication Date: February 1, 2003

Insight Compact Guides just get better and better and to further enhance their appeal, the Insight team have added many new features to help visitors get even more out of their holiday; New style back covers convincingly highlight the reasons to buy each book; New eye-catching spine design ensures high impact on bookshelves; New colour-coded bars enable readers to find their way around the book more quickly and easily; Extra 30 pages of information added offering unbeatable value and superb quality, in both photography and content; New, improved layout and typeface makes accessing key information even easier; Useful phrases included making Compact Guides even more practical travelling companions

Editorial Reviews

Review

'It is hard to fault the Insight Compact Guide...... It packs a lot of cultural punch into its featherlight 80+ pages.' The Sunday Telegraph

Book Description

The book begins with our at-a-glance guide to the Best of Hong Kong, followed by chapters, written by specialists, detailing the history and culture of the former British colony. The Places section includes the low-down on all the things to see, from the crowded streets of Central and Kowloon to the open spaces of the New Territories and Outlying Islands, as well as the new casino resorts of Macau and the sights of Shenzhen and Guangzhou. All chapters are enlivened by box-out features, tips and fact boxes. The Travel Tips section provides full listings and all the practical information you'll need.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Insight Guides; 3rd ed. edition (February 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9812348166
• ISBN-13: 978-9812348166
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,318,065 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Compact Guide, January 5, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Insight Pocket Guide Hong Kong (Paperback)

I found the guide to be quite good and conveniently compact. My one criticism is that information for a given area is in several different places in the book. For example, there is a section on Wan Chai as a tour, another for Wan Chai at night, another section under excursions, and then Wan Chai restaurants are listed in a fourth section, altho some are included in the previous sections. This made for a lot of page flipping back and forth. This should all be consolidated into one section on Wan Chai. I thought the info was very good, just a lot of page flipping ("Now, where did I see that?")

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Colorful maps, great book! Essential travel tips included!, May 18, 2010

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Maye - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hong Kong (Step by Step) (Paperback)

(The photo shown here is the 2008 version, but I got the 2009 version.) Wish there was the 2010 version! Loved the colorful photos on every page. The book is divided into different sections such as areas of interest, top sights and attractions like horse racing, casinos, HK Disneyland, nightlife, parks, Star Ferry, museums, temples, and even street dining and bargaining at nighttime. The book also talks about early history of HK, the arts, Chinese Medicine, places to dine and to have fun at night, and a section on Macau too. I like the section near the end where it gives A-Z travel tips like transportation and how to get around, things to consider before you book your hotel (accommodations), best places to shop, sports, activities and festivals, street atlas maps that includes hotels and restaurants, and even how to pronounce some basic Cantonese phrases to get around! Would recommend the book when traveling and is worth to buy.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The 1997 edition is more up to date, October 29, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Insight Pocket Guides Hong Kong (Paperback)

Aimed at the vacationer or business traveller, the strength of this guide is its guided walks/day trip itineraries...and in for a place whose coastline and skyline is forever changing, not to mention its complete change of sovreignty, the more up to date your guidebook the better!