Lily & Kevin were also feeling a little homesick during the holiday, so we decided to all spend the day together. All of our families are in the United States and Canada, and going home to see them was not going to happen this year. We are all the closest thing to family we have in Hong Kong, so it makes sense that we spend holidays together.
Since a one bedroom apartment is a little too small for four people, and since it was Christmas, we decided to splurge and go to a nice hotel. I don't know whose idea it was originally. I think it was Kevin's. Lily & Kevin talked about it and then brought it up to me. I told Ryan.
We went to the Auberge Discovery Bay on Siena Avenue. It is nowhere close to any MTR stops, but the hotel has shuttles to the airport, Disneyland and area attractions. This was more like a resort than a hotel. It looks a lot nicer than most Hong Kong hotels and has a full service spa, is on the beach and has several dining options besides the usual restaurant.
Lily & I had to work a lot around Christmas, so I suggested we go to a hotel close to Disneyland. That way we could all spend time together at a nice hotel and Lily & I could easily go to work when we had to. This one was very close. I have never gotten to work so quickly. Since it was at Discovery Bay, there was plenty for Ryan and Kevin to do. Discovery Bay is full of expats and vacationing foreigners, so they could hang out with other foreigners and talk about football and hot dogs, or whatever they talk about in bars. They probably talk about girls and their balls, but I prefer to think about it my way.
The hotel had plenty to eat and drink, a nice swimming pool and the rooms had new TVs with more than enough channels and free internet. I don't know why all hotels don't have free internet. This was a great place for Ryan and Kevin to be lazy for a couple of days.
The Auberge Discovery Bay is an expensive hotel, but we got a Disneyland discount. That made it a lot cheaper, but that also meant we could not book the best rooms. The more expensive rooms face the ocean and have great views of the bay. The discount rooms are in the back and face the mountain. They were still very nice rooms and the view was not bad at all. The mountains on Lantau Island are pretty green. Our rooms were large by Hong Kong standards and looked a lot nicer than most hotels around here. They did not look anything like discount rooms. That's the way any good hotel should be.
Since we were not in the city, we tried the hotel breakfast. If we were in Kowloon or Hong Kong Island we would have never eaten a hotel breakfast. There is too much food that's a lot better in every direction. Here, we were away from the city, and going out to get food took longer than just walking outdoors. The hotel is not in the middle of nowhere, but it is in an overpriced neighborhood where people who don't like living in Hong Kong live. The breakfast was pretty good. It was still a hotel breakfast, but it was not all microwaved food sitting under a heat lamp. It actually looked appetizing and some of it was made by chefs rather than short order cooks.
I don't know if we will ever go to this hotel again, but I'm up for it.
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