Shopping tour will be a nice addition to your holiday in Hong Kong. Hong Kong has a reputation of one of the world's biggest shopping cities.
Shopping tour will be a nice addition to your holiday in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong has a reputation of one of the world's biggest shopping cities. Even if now almost whole East Asia (which many perceive as a common great and wonderful market) competes seriously with Hong Kong. Hong Kong is more like jungles than havens for buyers: tourists devoted themselves to shopping can drain themselves to exhaustion, especially when there is a hot and humid weather.
Prices in Hong Kong vary very much from shop to shop. For cash, you can usually buy at a lower price than using your credit card. If you do use credit cards, the most popular one in Hong Kong is Visa. You may haggle at all stores except big department stores and supermarkets. To let tourists on their holidays in Hong Kong know a general idea about prices the Hong Kong Tourist Association pointedly publishes several free brochures with recommended retail prices. Stores with labels of the association are considered more ethical and reliable than those that do not protect their goods with such symbolics.
On both sides of the Hollywood street on the central island of Hong Kong there are the most expensive shops selling antiques of all kinds - furniture, carpets, books, prints and much more. At that same place there are situated small art galleries. A man with name Lan Fong Quay runs a number of small galleries. They are located not far from the central gallery.
Electronics is being sold on the peninsula Mong Kok (north of Tsim Shaa Tsuia) in Hong Kong. Sei Eung Choi Street is the center of electronics stores in Hong Kong, and many shops offer good discounts. The Commercial Centre Yau Shing is the same building, fully stuffed with shops. Even here it is normal to haggle: when buying electronics accurately frame your requirements and ask for desired price. Before you pay by check, make sure everything works, all parts are present, warranty cards are written out and serial numbers on the box correspond to the numbers on the product. Such caution during a shopping tour in Hong Kong is not superfluous - Hong Kong traders according to the law are not obliged to exchange defective goods or return money for it.
Shopping hours: shops practically everywhere in Hong Kong are open daily from 10:00 to 22:00, except the central gallery, where they close at 19:00.
Banks hours: Banks in Hong Kong are usually open from Monday to Friday from 9:00 to 16:30 and Saturday - from 9:00 to 13:00. Hong Kong Bank opens earlier - at 8:30.
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