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Update 5/27/14: A winner has been picked for the $200 Visa Gift Card. You can still enter the contest for two roundtrips to HKG in Cathay Pacific Premium Economy at www.loungebuddy.com/cathay/
Two awesome giveaways for your Aloha Friday:
- One MileValue reader will win a $200 Visa Gift Card
- One entrant (not necessarily a MileValue reader) will win an incredible trip for two to Hong Kong in Cathay Pacific Premium Economy from Cathay Pacific and Lounge Buddy.
How do you enter the two giveaways?
Enter the $200 Giveaway
For your shot at a $200 Visa Gift Card, leave a comment on this post that answers:
If you had the opportunity to go to Hong Kong, what would you do there?
Entry closes for the $200 giveaway on Monday May 26 at 11:59 PM HST at which time I’ll contact the winner and get his name and address to Lounge Buddy to send out the gift card.
Enter the Hong Kong Giveaway
Lounge Buddy and Cathay Pacific are teaming up to give on winner roundtrip flights for two from Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Newark, San Francisco, Toronto or Vancouver to Hong Kong.
The winner and a companion will fly in Cathay Pacific Premium Economy which has 38″ of pitch and 19.5″ of width.
That’s 6-7″ of extra leg room compared to most economy cabins.
Along the way, the winner will have lounge access, and in Hong Kong will receive a guided tour of the Cathay Pacific lounges.
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The Sweepstakes begins on May 1st, 2014 at 12:00 a.m. Eastern Time (“ET”), and ends on May 31st, 2014 at 11:59 p.m. ET
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Sweepstakes Prize:
ONE (1) GRAND PRIZE:
- Two (2) roundtrip Premium Economy Class tickets from winner’s departing port (Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Newark, San Francisco, Toronto or Vancouver) to Hong Kong.
- Luxurious airport lounge access on the trip.
- A private guided tour of the Cathay Pacific lounges in Hong Kong.
- One year of Cathay Pacific’s frequent flyer program, Marco Polo Club, with complimentary Silver tier status for a year which provides the holder with:
- Access to Cathay Pacific Business Class Lounges and Dragonair Lounges (when departing on Cathay Pacific or Dragonair flights)
- Priority Boarding, Advanced Seat Reservations, Priority Waitlisting, Extra-legroom Seats, Priority Baggage Handling and more.
Total Approximate Retail Value (“ARV”): $3500
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If I were to go to Hong Kong I would go to the Peak at night.
If I were so lucky as to win a trip to Hong Kong, I would use the trip to visit my grandparents in China whom I have never met before in my entire life and I’m 32 years old,.
I would hike to the top of the peak!
Two words: dim sum.
Go on a food adventure!
If i went to hong kong, id go to all the places anthony bourdain went to eat on his shows
Eat street food!
I would explore, eat, and take in the culture.
Picture @ victoria peak
I would get a custom made suit
Roam around Kowloon.
Go to all the night markets, both Kowloon and Hongkong.
Book a table at Amy’s vegetarian private kitchen
I would eat at din tai dung and go shopping. Then eat again and go to Victoria harbor to watch boats pass by
I would explore the city.
Stay at the Conrad and eat some delicious food!
I’d buy a fake Rolex
I would find a street market and start exploring!
I would try all of the amazing food.
I would take the Peak Tram and explore the Morning Trail!
I would eat street food, get a custome suit and go to Bali in between!!
Definitely try the peak at night !!!
I want to say sushi?
Up the escalators until it ends – a gulf of fresh air and awesome scenery and down walking enjoying the HK Bay.
Have tea at the Peninsula Hotel in Kowloon.
I would explore Hong Kong and eat a lot of food!
I would go to Lantau Island and find the giant Buddha!
eat and eat some more!
I would definitely check out the view from Victoria Peak and eat some great food.
I would take a picture of the Hong Kong skyline at night from Kowloon Bay!
In Hongkong, I would go to peak at night, visit disneyland with kids and do some shopping.
I just want to go & eat esp at the night markets.
I would go to Disneyland Hong Kong!
I’d eat awesome dim sum!
I’d check out the Peak!
I would lounge in the pool at the Intercontinental while enjoying the epic views of Hong Kong Island.
If I were to go to Hong Kong I would go to enjoy dim sum.
I’ve wanted to go to Hong Kong since I first read Tai Pan (historical fiction about the founding of Hong Kong in the 1840’s). The thing I’d be most excited to see is the city view at night from Victoria Peak.
I would visit Victoria Peak.
I would go to disneyland Hong Kong and stay at the Conrad!
I’d find out why Hong Kong has awesome food!
Dim sum sounds good to me on the walkway next to Intercontinental.
I’d go back to the Goods of Desire store. They have a lot of really cool stuff. Oh and go on an egg tart tour of Kowloon. Yum!
Play poker!
I’ve been to Hong Kong before. I’d like to try the ferry ride this time around. 🙂
Out for a paddle with a dragon boat crew.
Go to the Floating Palace restaurant for amazing food!
Eat seafood
I’ve always wanted to try the dim sum restaurant that
received a Michelin star!
Head to the Shing Mun Reservoir.
If I had the opportunity to go back to Hong Kong, I would check out more of their culinary scene 😀
eat dim sum, seafood, go to victoria peak, stanlet market, disney park, high tea at the Peninsula….so much to do so the $200 will definitely help!
Go for spontaneity… do no research on what to do, then do whatever comes to mind!
Get some delicious dim sum, hit the streets for some fun, and of course have to visit Disneyland!
Eat eat eat!
Eat, eat and EAT!
i would take photos at victoria peak
Eat, shop, repeat.
I’d stay at the Peninsula Hotel. It has always seemed to be the height of luxury to me.
Find the best wonton noodle shop
I would explore the food scene.
I would have some custom clothes made for myself.
I would try as many different foods as possible.
noodles on nathan road. sitting budda on lantau. night market on kowloon
The peak for me and some fantastic food choices.
for me it would be dim sum and exploration
Night markets, Victoria Peak, and visit family and friends.
Have a suit custom made and eat until new suit no longer fit.
Ive never been to asia so i’m not sure, but i’m sure I could find lots of things.
Hong Kong Disneyland!
Go to the peak.
Visit nearby islands.
I would visit my friend Junko that moved there for work. I would take in all the sights and sounds that Hong Kong has to offer. I’ve always wanted to take High Tea at the Peninsula Hotel and see the fireworks from the harbor.
Food, food, and food!!!
custom suits!
Bring my elderly dad to see his relatives for the last time as he is old now and to visit my family’s homeland for the first time! Enjoy some good authentic cuisine and visit the great wall! Finally post my experience here if I use my winnings 🙂
Eat lots of dim sum and ride the the upper deck, first row of those crazy public busses!
Do more exploring of the neighborhoods on both sides of Victoria Harbour — haven’t been back for about six years!
Ferry, Big Buddha, Ocean Park, Wetlands, Victoria Peak. Love the city, forgot Wednesday Night for Happy Valley Horse Racing. I’m packed with my Octopus Card loaded!
I’d go on a Honk Kong food safari, hit the peak then get some custom made
clothes.
I would head to the peak and the harbor, and create my own vegetarian food tour.
I’d go to all the street markets!
I would try to meet with some wealthy folks and solicit donations to upgrade medical and nursing schools in developing countries.
I’d eat great street food in Hong Kong!
I would go to the Chinese Museum of Art which has the best Chinese art anywhere in the world and spend two full days immersing myself into Chinese culture and history through their fabulous art.
I would go to the Chinese Museum of Art and spend two full days immersing myself into Chinese culture and history through their fabulous art.
That is an amazing grand prize! If my wife and I were to go to Hong Kong we would enjoy learning more about the culture and make new friends at tea houses throughout the city and take a romantic stroll around Victoria Peak at sunset. Also, I think we would have to stay in the awesome Intercontinental with some of our IHG Big Win Points. Keeping our fingers crossed!!!!
visit the Peak!
Stanley market sounds interesting
Shop, shop and shop some more
Hhhmm… Well, I’d wander through the cosmopolitan mecca surviving on only dim sum. Then I’d make my way outward to enjoy the tropical side (surviving only on dim sum leftovers). Lastly, Hong Kong would serve as a gateway to Macau. Here, I would attempt the highest bungy jump in the world off of Macau Tower (and this is the point where I would give back all that yummy dim sum).. Gives me the chills just thinking about it. I saw a picture of it and told myself I would one day conquer it….
If I were in Hong Kong, I would try to fit in as many of the following activities……eat Dim Sum at the best food courts…….go to the horse race track at Sha-Tin or Happy Valley whichever was open…….do a boat cruise on the bay…….search for old soccer and rugby kits in out of the way little shops or charity stores.
Shopping and the Peak.
I will eat and shop and bring my daughter to Disney! Mickey speaks chinese there?
I would love to try Tim Ho Wan dim sum and go up to the peak at night
Shopping and visit/ try and eat the street food …
Great food with great company!! See long time friends and eat all the great foods Hong Kong has to offer! <3
Oh dear, I would do so much, first visit my family who I haven’t seen in years! Bring my boyfriend to my college over there and show him around.. And try out the ice bar this time. And of course I’d eat alotttt.
I’d go to Sam’s Tailor and get another suit made!
street food for days
I would drink some snakes blood and then go out partying in Lan Kwai Fong!!
Eat, eat, and eat!
Enjoy the food and fly to other nearby cities.
Eat & wander!
Definitely I would go to Victoria Peak to take pictures.
If I went to Hong Kong I would chill out in the Harbour Plaza Hotel’s rooftop pool overlooking the bay 🙂
Why stay at the Peninsula Hotel and slip back in time to the heyday of luxury travel from the 1920s.
If I had the opportunity to go to Hong Kong, I would hope to go to the Kowloon Walled City Park and take advantage of the great authentic food 🙂
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I would go to see the big Buddha – and have a mango ice cream cone at the top of the Peak.
DIM SUM!!!!!
do my whole photography series would be planning to do there with FISHEYE… i have ‘city series’ with fisheye going (new york, kuala lumpur, singapore, miami, prague, barcelona, tel aviv, phnomh penh, saigon, hanoi, bali, jerusalem as of now) and to do a whole city with fisheye only would be challenging and unique…
I would go check out the Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery
If you had the opportunity to go to Hong Kong, what would you do there?
I’d do a walking foodie/tasting tour. I’d take the mass transit all over the islands. I’d find walking tours to temples.
Definitely to eat! Too many places to try. My favorite is picking out your own seafood and having it prepared whichever way you like it.
Visiting friends and eat dim sum!
Boat in a Junk
I would go and enjoy the food there along with some shopping 🙂
Explore, EAT, see the sights and explore somemore!
Bar hopping at Lan Kwai Fong
Go to Temple street night market. Explore, Eat, Enjoy!
I would pick up a few custom made suits!
Shopping, shopping and more shopping!
I would go to the fishing village of Tai O to see the punk dolphins in the South China Sea.
Anything and Everything that I could! Try new things, walk new paths, explore, meet amazing people, expand my world view and challenge myself. It’s why we travel, isn’t it 🙂
I would have a food adventure and visit all the night markets
I’d go visit the places that my parents grew up in!
I would meet family I’ve never seen before!
I would take a day trip to Macau.
I would head over to Macau and game.
Never been to Hong Kong but it’s on my bucket list – we’d go up Victoria Peak, ride the harbor ferries, visit the night markets, eat, shop, eat more, shop more, eat again, ferry to Macau, revel in the entire experience.
Explore the city and enjoy
Tea at the Intercon or the Peninsula
I would visit my inlaws in Kowloon Tong
Hike to the peak, wander around Kowlon and take the ferry to Macau.
In Hong Kong, I would take my darling to Ocean Park, as well as enjoy the food and night markets.
I would head up to Victoria Peak!
I would go to the top of Victoria Peak and then walk around it.
I would enjoy afternoon tea at the Peninsula!
I would love to visit HK for the food!
first, I wud eat a lot of chinese food, then i wud eat more chinese food, and lastly, I would continue to eat chinese food until time to come home…
I’d definitely do dinner on Victoria Peak at the best table at Café Deco.
While in HKG, I would go hike the Dragon’s Back.
If I went to hong kong I’d go to mcdonalds!
I’d eat some awesome authentic Asian Vegetarian food.
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/china/hong-kong/restaurants/vegetarian-vegan/yoga-interactive-vegetarian
I would visit Victoria Peak.
Sushi sushi sushi
I would head out to the harbor and marvel at the beautiful view.
I will tour the harbor at night and eat DIM SUM!
I would eat something I have never eaten before
Will go to victoria peak. And also go on shopping binge with my wife.
I’d visit the Peak and eat some street market food for sure, other than that I’d keep it totally spontaneous!
I would spend the morning in Stanley and enjoy the beach, go hiking in the afternoon, and then enjoy a delicious dinner at Yardbird!
Go to HK to have Michelin star dim sum!
Eat, Eat and Eat! And if probably stay at the Conrad 😉
I would eat yummy dim sum at a traditional old style restaurant, go see the Big Buddha, and visit the life-sized Noah’s Ark!
I would go visit victorias peak!
I would go to Disneyland in Hong Kong!
Custom made suit.
I would visit a friend who moved there many years ago…and have some dim sum:-)
Go on the ultimate food adventure!
I would honestly go to the Australian Dairy Co. located in Kowloon. They serve the BEST scrambled eggs and toast. Me. Hungry. Now
I would watch the light show while having a cocktail and enjoy the views from the Star Ferry.
Thanks to the miles I collected with the help of this site I did get to go to Hong Kong ( AA Explorer Ticket) and I would go back and visit some of the friends I made! …. And the Big Buddah because the Big Buddah is awesome.
In Honk Kong, I would try new foods and visit some of the school children classrooms.
I would get some suits and shirts tailored – quality and price is great
I would head to the custom tailors and buy 8-10 suits
Definitely seek out some dumplings in Hong Kong.
Go see Big Buddha, get a custom suit made, explore Macau, lunch at the Peninsula Hotel, go on the peak tram… Have always wanted to get to Hong Kong!
Hong Kong Disney!
Eat, walk, eat, walk, eat, walk….
Ferry ride for SHO!
My husband and I would be in foody heaven, shopping, visit the peak, ferry to the various islands!
I would take my husband to have a custom suit made.
Eat, eat & eat some more. Drool….
I’d hike the Peak and eat my weight in street food!
I would go to Stanley market and buy some custom clothing
I would watch the spectacular laser light show
visit my friends in HK!
I would like to visit Asia Society Hong Kong Centre. My friends told me about this magnificent site integrates 19th-century British military buildings, including a couple of explosives magazines, and transforms them into an exhibition gallery, a multipurpose theatre, an excellent restaurant and a bookstore, all open to the public.
I would eat. And then eat some more.
Visit Victoria Peak.
Go do some good haggling at the markets.
See the laser light show; that’s the best.
Ride on a boat with a red sail!
I love being high up, so I’d visit Victoria peak again… and take a ride to Macau and go up the big tower they have there.
Eat a lot
I have no idea but I can’t wait to start doing research!
In the land where Cantonese they speak,
My first priority – visit the celebrated Peak;
At twilight, when the moon blooms,
I come down to earth, shutting my camera’s zooms;
What’s that sound, I wonder?
Why, ‘tis my tummy rumbling out of hunger;
Where do I eat?, where do I eat?, I ponder,
Yes!, I find yummy street food just ‘round the corner;
When enough food and drink has been had,
I’m starting to feel a little good and a little bad;
Soon my trip to Hong Kong would end,
I’ll take off to the skies again, dodging clouds and bends;
But have no regrets, no sorrow,
The departure date doesn’t come till 2morrow;
Till then, I enjoy the extravaganza, the citylights, the view,
And to Scott/LB for the $200 visa gift card, a big thank you!
Spotting at HKG obvs 😉
Spotting at HKG 🙂
I honestly have no idea what I’d do – I’m such a planner that I would probably do tons of research to maximize my time there!
Be a local and go on a food adventure at night which is the best time to take in the vibe of HK.
Thanks to blogs such as Milevalue.com I have traveled Europe. This would open up the whole Asian culture and experience for us.
I would visit Victoria Peak and definitely eat as much as possible!
Definitely try and see the sights and do some shopping
Probably check out Macau and maybe hop to China for a few days
Take Star Ferry across Victoria Harbour, go to The Peak to enjoy the views, have some dim sum and lemon tea, walk along the promenade and then watch Symphony Light show. Can`t wait!
Oh, and I forgot to mention Tai-O-fishermen village with a unique atmosphere. If I am lucky moneywise and timewise, I would probably stay a night or two at the only hotel in Tai-O-Heritage hotel, which used to be a police station. It is very peaceful and beautiful there.
Also, I would go hiking. One of my favorite trails is Dragon back. I highly recommend go hiking in Hong Kong-you`ll be unexpectedly amazed by the nature of Hong Kong.
Eat eat eat!
Eat my heart out then go to Macau!
Have tea at the grand dama The Peninsula hotel.
If I had the opportunity to go to Hong Kong I would visit Hong Kong Disneyland
Experiencing all the food!
Eat everything in sight.