Did You Know?

• Smoking in Hong Kong is prohibited in most enclosed public places. including restaurants, karaokes, malls, and some bars. Smoking is also banned at some outdoor areas, such as public beaches and swimming pools, transport interchanges and outside escalators, etc.?

• If you commit an offense of littering, spitting, unauthorized display of bills or posters, or fouling of street by dog faeces you are liable to a fixed penalty of HK$ 1,500?

• The world's longest outdoor escalator system (not a single escalator span), at a total length of 800 m. can be found in Central-Mid-Levels, Hong Kong? The Ocean Park escalator has an an overall length of 224 m (745ft), and in Times Square shopping centre in Causeway Bay has a four spiral escalators, each of which turns through about 180 degrees?

• That Mongkok is the most crowded place in the world? Most roads are blocked off for pedestrians on weekends on Sundays and holidays, and also on weekdays starting late afternoon?

• Hong Kong, the tax-free country with bustling port and commercial centre, is a major tourist destination and one of the major business centres in the world?

• People in Hong Kong are very organized that they queve patiently in shops, restaurants, public toilets, public ATM machines and there's an unofficial escalator rule to stand on the right hand side of the escalator to give way to people who's in a hurry during peak hours?

• Hong Kong is the Shopping paradise in Asia? Numerous shopping malls, outlets, retail stores, street markets, as well as restaurants, convenient stores, etc. in every corner, you literally dont know where to begin shopping! the best way to start is downstairs outside your building/hotel. As the old saying goes.. Don’t leave home without cash or credit card!