What is everyone up to for the chinese new year?
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Yes, this has been building for weeks and weeks to the point where I literally can't stand it anymore! The house must be cleaned! Just in time for Chinese New Year too. I'm sooooo traditional.
Totally agree with Cara. I'm not even brave enough to go to Ocean Park on the weekends now because of the hoardes of Mainland Chinese people there. We did go over a weekend in November--on a Sunday because it was my husband's birthday and he got in free, my son was just barely under 3-years-old so he got in free and we redeemed Park n' Shop points for a free ticket for me.
It was utter madness! I'm glad that my husband's friend who lives in Aberdeen volunteered to go along with us--he did a lot of packing of the stroller and he actually went to get us food and come back because we literally could not navigate the crowds with a little kid and pregnant belly.
When we went to see the seals and dolphins perform we arrived about 20 minutes early and that's the only way we were able to get a seat. Also, we were leaving the performance early just to get away from the crowds and not get trampled and as I got up from my seat (climbing up the really steep and scary stairs) a Mainland lady literally started pushing me backwards down the steps (7 months pregnant and all!) because she was so panicked to try to grab the seat I had just vacated.
I nearly was knocked backwards (which would have been awful because once you start falling on those stairs it's a LONG way down) and my husband had to fight her off of me so that I could just walk up the exit!
Another note--there were Mainland women who would get uncomfortable close to my son's stroller, squat down to take a peek inside when he was sleeping. Then they would just stand there and stare at my husband and I trying to figure out, I guess, if my son looked more like me or my husband (he is Chinese, I'm not). It was a bit weird--and that sort of in-your-face action happened all day long. Just a hugely different culture, I tell ya'!
It's a good thing we had no ambitions to really go on many adult rides that day--the kids rides didn't have really long lines but my husband got on one adult ride the whole day. We were more interested in seeing the pandas etc.
Yeah, Ocean Park (and probably even moreso Disney) are not very nice destinations over any major holidays. Go on a weekday that isn't close to a holiday and it's much better.
Chinese New Year it's boring. My husabnd has to work most of the days during this time and when he gets a week off later we were thinking to stay in hongkong for a few nights in the middle of Feburary ( which is still during Chinese New Year, before the lantern fest, we live in the Mainland). Thinking to go the the Peak, Standley, and Ocean park. Do you think the crowd will still be around then?
If they are, we perhaps will change our plan. It won't be safe to navigate through the crowd when I am pregnant and we have a 20 month old too.
If they are, we perhaps will change our plan. It won't be safe to navigate through the crowd when I am pregnant and we have a 20 month old too.
joyofliving
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Do not go OP it is terrible! Went there last year, even queuing those tourists I think are mainlanders are pushing. My dad got angry and tell them to back off it's not as if you push or get closer (literally skin to skin) the whole waiting can speed up? Maybe they just want to jump queue? 
Inside the aquarium they use flashes and doesn't not have the courtesy to move on after taking photo. What annoys me the most is after taking photos with flash they still stand there and making comment that why I can't see the fishes? They themselves had scared all the fishes away with those flashes! So we can't get near enough with the fishes and there is no fishes. I can tell you only the panda hall you can see properly as there are many staffs supervising and maintaining order.
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Inside the aquarium they use flashes and doesn't not have the courtesy to move on after taking photo. What annoys me the most is after taking photos with flash they still stand there and making comment that why I can't see the fishes? They themselves had scared all the fishes away with those flashes! So we can't get near enough with the fishes and there is no fishes. I can tell you only the panda hall you can see properly as there are many staffs supervising and maintaining order.Posted via Mobile Device
Happy Baby
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Try Strawberry Picking!
Hi Ladies,
Another activity you might want to consider is strawberry picking. We went to Rainbow Organic Strawberry farm, in Fanling, on Monday and it was brilliant.
Its a bit of a trek but oh so worth it! My friends and I went by car and it took more or less an hour from Cental. The kids, ages ranging from 2.5 to 4yrs old, had a blast picking and eating the berries. The farm charges by the pound and its not exactly cheap but they probably factured in the berries you eat along the way, too!
The berries were super sweet, fragrant and delicious!
The farm is opened during CNY and there was nobody there when we went this week.
Google their website, although its all in Chinese.
This activity was such a treat and I'd definately go back again!
Hi Ladies,
Another activity you might want to consider is strawberry picking. We went to Rainbow Organic Strawberry farm, in Fanling, on Monday and it was brilliant.
Its a bit of a trek but oh so worth it! My friends and I went by car and it took more or less an hour from Cental. The kids, ages ranging from 2.5 to 4yrs old, had a blast picking and eating the berries. The farm charges by the pound and its not exactly cheap but they probably factured in the berries you eat along the way, too!
The berries were super sweet, fragrant and delicious!The farm is opened during CNY and there was nobody there when we went this week.
Google their website, although its all in Chinese.
This activity was such a treat and I'd definately go back again!