Flights Hong KongUp until 1997, Hong Kong was a colony of the United Kingdom for the previous 155 years, and during that time it developed its own system of government and customs, completely separate from those of its huge neighbor, and now host country, China. Thanks to the Sino-British Joint Declaration, and the Basic Law of Hong Kong, these autonomous systems will continue at least fifty years into China’s official status as Hong Kong’s sovereign nation. It is due to this melding of the Chinese and British cultures that makes this Chinese city such a unique experience when visiting it.As the city is a compact one, you are never very far from major shopping areas and popular sights. You should also plan on taking the city’s advanced public transportation system, as traffic in the city can be brutal at all hours of the day, due to its massive population. Most hotels are situated in the center of the city, but there are also several resort-style hotels popping up in the areas around the city, if you tend to lean toward a relaxing vacation, rather than the excitement of staying downtown. Cheap domestic airline flights to Hong Kong are available on any number of Asian carriers, among them China Air, which offers non-stop service from Beijing. Elsewhere in Asia, flights to this busy city are still reasonable, as flying to Hong Kong from Singapore can be booked cheaply on Singapore Airlines, which has a direct flight between the two areas. And in fact, I recently took an October 30 flight from Hong Kong to Bangkok for just a few hundred dollars. From Western Europe, airfares can be reasonable as well, thanks to the United Kingdom’s long association with the city. Cheap flights from the UK to Hong Kong can be booked on local carriers such as British Airways, or on Asian airlines such as Taiwan’s Eva Air. It’s also not hard to find cheap flights to Hong Kong from Dublin, Ireland, by traveling on Air France, which offers one-stop service between the two cities, connecting in Paris. It always pays to check online to see what travel deals are available in Hong Kong, China, as tickets for flights, and also hotel rooms often go on sale, potentially saving you hundreds of dollars.
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