Recently frequent accompaniment to Hong Kong friends traveling shopping, in addition to the previous collection of online intelligence to obtain a different degree of test, but also more than some personal experience. Special record, I hope that in the future to Hong Kong shopping friends have to help. Reprinted please specify the source. :)
There is nothing wrong with Hong Kong being crowded, but for anyone with a desire to shop, it will be more of a tantalizing attraction that represents endless bustle. Pacific Place in Admiralty, Harbour City in Tsim Sha Tsui, are favorite places for tourists from all over the world, both can let you shop all day. For those with more money and style, you can go to The Landmark in Central. It is said that you can find discounted designer brands. However, too big-name clothing brands sometimes inevitably make me feel otherworldly, stage sense heavier, so I rarely go to shop there.
There are two intersections of the MTR and KCR, one in Tsim Sha Tsui, which is a good place for short-stayers to focus on shopping, and I'll summarize the routes around Tsim Sha Tsui after I talk about categorizing the goods, and the other intersection is the Kowloon Tong station, which leads directly to Festival Walk. This mall itself is a mid-range and high-end positioning, the major brands are basically there. Below will be a breakdown of 1) cosmetics, 2) clothes and shoes, 3) jewelry and watches, and 4) electrical products. But the cosmetics of a class will be my focus, followed by electrical appliances, again jewelry and watches, clothes and shoes will be the least account, you have a thought in advance, huh?
To Hong Kong, the airport's Airport Express, or the ticket counter at the Lo Wu Railway Station, you can buy an Octopus card. A card can travel all over Hong Kong, not only the train, the MTR, buses, the Peak Tram, ferries can be used, but also in the many 7-11 convenience stores to buy things, you can pay in the many Watson's stores, you can buy meals in the Maxim's fast-food to eat, you can buy things in the PARKnSHOP, Wellcome, such supermarkets, and you can eat in the cafeteria of our school, haha! Once upon a time, the restrictions on the return of Octopus cards were more stringent, it was 3 months to return the card will not return the $50 deposit, now it has been relaxed a lot, you buy an Octopus card today is a minimum of HK$150, of which $100 stored value $50 deposit, but even if you go back to the mainland tonight to return the card, there is only a $7 handling fee, the other remaining stored value and the $50 deposit are refunded. It's so much more humane and convenient for the tens of millions of tourists who pass through Lo Wu Pass every day during the holidays.
If you need a local contact, it is best to have $1 or $2 in Hong Kong dollar coins ready. Coin phones are everywhere, but most do not refund coins (I don't know why), I myself once spent $25 to make three local calls, and jumped at the loss. In Hong Kong will stay a few days people, recommended to buy PEOPLES stored value card, a few dozen dollars a with SIM card, inserted into their own cell phone can be used, enough to use during the tour. And playing the domestic long-distance is also very cheap, than advocating those two places to fly line, a card two numbers are much more affordable.
Hong Kong shopping guide - cosmetics map chapter
Come to Hong Kong should buy what to bring back? If you ask me to answer this question from a woman's point of view, my first answer will be: cosmetics. Hong Kong has gathered most of the world's famous brands, from the top of the hall of fame, to the middle and low-grade supermarket level, Hong Kong are sold, and 99% of them have a considerable price difference. As for which brands to buy, individual differences are too great, others say good brand you use your own may not be appropriate, so still think about what you want and then out, do not think to Hong Kong and then pick, I guarantee that you listen to which counter lady speak will be moved.
Online is generally considered and the domestic price difference of a few brands: Rancourt (this is indeed out of three to 40%, and counter and then 10% off), Clinique (did not actually buy, so there is no comparison, but it is said to be cheaper than the domestic quite a lot), Clarins (no activities under the premise of Hong Kong counters is probably 70% of the price of the domestic counter, counter to buy and then 9% off), Elizabeth Arden (Shakespeare often different products), the price is not the price of the domestic market, but also the price of the domestic market. buy one get one free, such as eye capsules), Bodyshop (this brand domestic official channels are not sold, are agents in the work, so there is an opportunity to Hong Kong to buy some of its small things is quite good, like eye cream mask neck cream these, and not expensive).
Here are a few places to buy cosmetics:
Yet another city
Our school is adjacent to the big shopping mall, I like to go to the inside after dinner to sneak around and shop a bit. As I said above, Festival Walk is located at the MTR train interchange, so for those who come from Shenzhen and take the train from Lo Wu into Hong Kong, it's convenient to take a stroll while changing trains in Kowloon Tong without detouring. Glycel, Guerlain, H2O, HugoBoss, IPSA, Jurlique, Kiehl's La Prairie, Lancome, L'Occitane, Lush, MaryQuant, mTm. Shiseido , Shu Uemura.
Holiday promotions are great for those who want to buy counter goods. Before I wrote a counter to buy cosmetics article, summed up on two points, here in the repeat it: 1) does not matter which mall which store has promotions, any counter in Hong Kong can give you the same discount, as long as you take your time and patiently discretion to buy here, for the BA for the full amount of 1k to send a gift bag can be completely 600 on the gift to you; 2) you can as far as possible bargain more freebies! Samples, I myself easily asked for more 5ml of Rancourt Whitening Essence 8, nearly one and a half genuine (domestic counter price of 690 a).
What's more pleasant is that you can buy almost all of these things at the mall with your domestic UnionPay card, and the exchange rate is very favorable, a midpoint between the bank's buy and sell prices, so it's more cost-effective than if you convert your RMB to HKD and then buy the stuff. And it's very safe to use a UnionPay savings card when you're not sure if your credit card bank charges a fee.
Salsa
It is still a very frequent place for me. For those of you who prefer to spend less, of course you won't buy at the counter. The counter goods are at least 10% more expensive than the airport duty free stores. Occasionally, there are rumors that Sasa has bought fake products, which I honestly don't believe. As a leader in cosmetic sales and health and beauty services in Asia, Sasa's registered trademark is highly recognized at home and abroad, and is also a major selling point for Hong Kong's tourism industry. To put it less generously, people's long-term business is far from being built on the small profits we make from buying one or two items, so credibility is important. Of course, in the past, there are a lot of claims to buy the shelf life of the cosmetic products have problems, this I would recommend that we first prepare a production batch number of the book, the number of goods to see, there are production batch number in the hands of you still afraid of what? Of course, if the production date of the logo is damaged or fuzzy, it is suspicious, should be more careful, or a different store and then look.
Salsa's website information and the actual store more than the difference between the online store may not be sold in the store, the store there may be online said to be out of stock or not listed at all, so you just need to buy what you need to buy on a piece of paper, the rest of it is up to fate, no one can guarantee that which must have. The price difference will not be too big. But be careful to look at the price, do not people say how much money on how much money, merchandise packaging are labeled with price tags, is the final real price or on this basis discount, should ask clearly. I've heard a lot of people complaining that BA said more or overcharged when they bought something at Sasa Joy.
Joyo and Sasa are very similar in nature, so I won't write about them alone. The result of my comparison is that Bonjour is a bit cheaper than Sasa. The shelf life of the product is still the same, but you can compare it with the batch number, which is more accurate than anyone else.
Salsa can use domestic credit cards, but the exchange rate is determined by your card issuer. For CUP cards, I'll check back and add more.
Dragon City
has always been the most highly regarded by Hong Kong people, and in recent years a lot of mainland tourists have come here as well. I think the main problem with Dragon City is that the goods are extremely incomplete, meaning authentic. Only three or so counters on the right hand side of the door are closed to specialize in high-end cosmetic brands, Shiseido, Rancourt, Bi Ou Quan, Clarins, La Prairie. other than what else I really don't remember. I don't really remember what else was there. The variety of goods for each brand is also very small, anyway, I personally saw the box of BioQuan total **** only three or four kinds.
But Dragon City's samples are plentiful and cheap. My friend wildly bought a handful of Dior samples, just lotion there are 6 kinds, 2 kinds of anti-aging wrinkle series, the other 4 kinds of deep moisturizing there are whitening, I see dizzy. Lancome, EL, Clinique, Biotherm, Shiseido's samples are a lot of, including the day before yesterday I just read the version of the Lancome family said that the best but the domestic did not sell that what dong dong. The one that sells what dong dong. shu uemura has a few samples.
Price comparison. I deliberately and after the Zhuoyue compare prices, the result is that these high-end products are generally cheaper than Zhuoyue sell small samples, such as Lancome's moisture edge day cream small samples, Longcheng sell 28, Zhuoyue sell 40, Sasa should be similar to Zhuoyue or a little more expensive. But the low-end products are not necessarily, my friend bought several L'Oreal Perfect Triple Whitening Facial Wash, said the Shenzhen mall selling 80 yuan, Longcheng sold 28, but to the Joyous look, silly, only sold 23. I bought 400 ml of Lux Deep Moisture Shampoo and Deep Repair Conditioner in Longcheng, each 23, 29 yuan cheaper than Watson's has been much cheaper than the price of the right? But Bonjour's special promotion section has a gift box with the same shampoo and conditioner in a set of 200ml each, for only $19.9 a ****. The result was that I bought another one for my husband to keep at school for his post-workout shower.
Dragon City sells a kind of River Valley vitamins to send the elderly is good, more than 100 points a box, iron box, flat, fruit-flavored vitamins, we go home every time to bring a batch of parents elders, a family of two boxes to send.
Previously, there is an article about the top three selling products in Longcheng, I spent some effort to find, huh, the result is only in a not too conspicuous shelf at the bottom of the first floor to find the first ranked that Spain made J. Alicia Herrera hand cream, 18 yuan a box, 75 ml 2.6oz. Despite the side of the shelf that color decay of the piece of paper (write Longcheng) Though the color of the decaying piece of paper by the side of the shelf (which reads Lonestar, No. 1 so-and-so, No. 2 so-and-so,) made me quite skeptical, I bought a tube and tried it out at night, and my husband said that he super liked the smell, but I thought it was average, a bit of a drugstore-branded kind of smell. Whispering, this hand cream is not sealed packaging, you can open the outer carton, lift the lid and smell the hand cream, do not like it, do not buy. Of course, don't try it, it's unethical, hehehe.
Dragon City, the biggest drawback is that it only accepts Hong Kong dollars in cash, not credit cards, and not other currencies. If you are planning to buy here, you should bring enough cash and exchange it first.
Buying cosmetics in Hong Kong also has its drawbacks, I recently read the page on the hot review of the Givenchy Green Tea series would like to lose a set to try, but this is in the Dragon City, Salsa, Bonjour are not sold. You can only go to shopping malls that have Lane Crawford, such as Pacific Place and Harbour City.
The last time I asked someone about La mer, there was also a counter at Harbour City.
Another EA's grapeseed mask that I was planning to buy, the Sasa clerk said it's long gone, ftw!
SOGO in Causeway Bay has a good range of cosmetics too. But generally we can't afford to travel that far to go to the mall.
There are a lot of people who are interested in Bodyshop, and there are a variety of promotional sets, such as three bottles of Tea Tree oil and a mask, a face wash and a mask, and sometimes Bodywash + Lotion, which came in a very nice box last year just before Christmas. Inside is three or two pieces of bath or essential oil, 50 yuan a, a gift is very gift. There are also many stores, Festival Walk has it, and you can find it in shopping malls and on the street in Shatin, Mongkok and Tsim Sha Tsui.
Finally summarize the line, for those who can't decide whether to go to Lung Shing it or to go to Sasa. Strongly recommended to go to Tsim Sha Tsui. Take the MTR to Tsim Sha Tsui station B1 exit (signage has written "Kallangweilao Road" that exit), on the road is a wide street in front of the cross (opposite a mosque, the mosque on the right side of the famous Park Lane Shopping Boulevard), do not cross the street, turn right, walk a few steps is a huge Shakespeare in the right hand side, you can go in first! You can go in and check the price. Continue to walk, walk to a big road, that is, the old road of Galienweg, turn right on this road, go to the first intersection need to cross the road (Canafern Road), you can see the direction of your forward right corner of the road is a Joy, the left hand corner is a Bodyshop, Bodyshop that side and then forward a dozen meters is another Salsa. Check out the prices at Bonjour. After coming out, continue to just the direction of the old road in Kallangwei forward a dozen meters, the right hand side is the Dragon City Pharmacy. This order, you can understand the price of each store, but also to ensure that the price of the lowest one can not buy goods can be in the second best home replenishment.