Trips To Hong Kong is an independent guide to the city, written and maintained by Samer Alqaisi. It is part of a network that includes Trips To The World and separate guides to Istanbul, Madrid, New York, Dublin, Prague, Budapest, Vienna, Edinburgh, Dubai, Cairo, Sydney and Toronto.
What this site is trying to be
Hong Kong is usually written up as skyline, dim sum and shopping, which misses the thing that actually distinguishes it: around 75 per cent of the territory is undeveloped and 40 per cent is protected country park, and you can be on an empty ridge forty minutes after leaving Central.
So this site gives hiking as much space as the harbour. It also points out that the Star Ferry costs less than a bottle of water and crosses the same harbour as a cruise costing many times more; that the Lugard Road walk at the Peak is free and better than the ticketed platform above it; and that the Mid-Levels Escalator runs downhill until ten in the morning.
On the political situation
This guide sets out what has changed since 2020 rather than leaving a gap between the handover and today. Ordinary tourism is entirely unaffected and Hong Kong is easy and safe to visit; the space for political expression is not what it was, and a guide that did not say so would be describing a city that no longer exists.
How it is researched
Opening times, ticket structures and access rules come from the venue’s own source and are dated on the page. Where a price is not shown, it is because it has not been checked recently enough to print.
Some things here are genuinely in flux — the Museum of History’s permanent exhibition has been closed for a revamp since 2020 with a moving reopening date, and this site says so rather than describing galleries that may not exist. Treat anything quoted here as an indication and check at source.
Corrections are made quickly and acknowledged.
How it is funded
Advertising and some affiliate links, mainly hotel and flight search. If you book through one, the site may earn a commission at no additional cost to you.
What that does not buy: no hotel, restaurant, tour operator or attraction has paid for a mention or a position here. No sponsored posts, no paid placements, no press trips.
Where something is not worth the money, the page says so — which is why the Peak entry advises skipping Sky Terrace, and why the Temple Street entry says the food is the reason to go and the stalls are not.
Photographs
The photographs on this site are not the author’s. They come from Wikimedia Commons under licences permitting reuse, and every one is credited beside the image and again at /credits/.
Corrections and contact
If something here is wrong or out of date — a fare, an opening time, a closure — please say so. Specific corrections with a date or a link are the most useful kind.
The contact form goes to a person, or write to [email protected].