I just got to read your report. Glad you like Macau. I love it too. And I stayed at the Royal on 1/3. They gave us a room on the "executive" floors, and it's very nice. Not sure what floor you were on.

Breakfast is way overpriced, and we ate at the little diner one block NE of the hotel.

As for the Hong Kong part, the group ticket for the Airport Express is still there. You have to use a manned counter to get them, not from a machine.

I am also sorry that you tried to eat at Maxim's between 3-5pm. That's a time when most Chinese restaurants close down between the breakfast/lunch dim sum period, and the dinner period. You just can't get proper Chinese food at that time of the day.

At the Royal in Macau we were on the 16th floor - executive/ premier - which is non smoking - the room was nice but I guess after Thailand it seemed small - but then I know this is normal for Hong Kong/ macau. Three beds inthe one room was too much though as you could not move.
I loved macau and i do highly recommend a visit especially when taking advantage of the cheap flights from Bangkok - info I found on this forum by the way.

we have over 4000 photos - between 3 cameras and I want to find a way to put a selection of them together and make them available - I am not sure how to do it but I will ask my computer guy this week and we shall see.

would this be of interest to people?

Yes, we are all interested in photos!!

ok will see what I can do but no promises - I am not the most technically minded of people!

Yes to pictures!

Just rereading your post as I am getting ready to work on the details for our Oct/Nov trip - -even more helpful now that we decided to begin with Hong Kong and include a day in Macau. Did you ever post the pictures?

bookmarking. thanks !!!

What a wonderful report. All the details and information. Have copied so much for my upcoming trip.

Am trying to remember the name of the supermarket in Cape Town. They sold green recyclable shopping bags. I believe they have the ingredients you need.

Obviously maturity has made you a fabulous report writer. Little did your teachers know.

This has been a wonderful read.
Thank you

bookmarking

Great report

Sometimes you write trip reports and you wonder why - apart of course to thank people for the input they gave you in the planning stage and also to pass on the info. Well this week, I found another good reason. This entire trip report was on my lap top, and I thought it was backed up, well it wasn't, and my son dropped my lap top and every single thing on it was beyond recovery! Thank goodness I could get this report back from the Fodors site.
I have just had lots of photos printed and am busy putting them into an album and you quickly forget the names of places so it's been great to check back to this report.
Bob is heading down to Cape Town soon and I am going to get him to show me how to post pictures - at long last they will get posted!
It was an incredible trip - how I would love to do it all again

What an enchanting report! I missed it the first time 'round when I was off-line for a period of months. So delighted to have the opportunity to read it through now. Sorry about your lap-top but thanks for bringing this to the top. I hope that you have more travel plans...

That's a great idea...get Bob to help with technical stuff. Was Rasputin unavailable? Just have your son throw the new laptop in the ocean. It's quicker and will make a better story.

I do agree with all of your reasons for writing a trip report. Posterity had never occurred to me as a reason.

some people have seen that i have good attributes, while others, one of whom i will have dinner with tonight, fail to see them....i'm looking forward to new friends in capetown...

The best he can hope for is one good attribute. He tricks many on this forum, but Beth and I can see his true nature. I like to think of our dinners with him sort of like a probation officer meeting with clients.

pathetic!!