Tsim Sha Tsui Hotels Offer Accommodation Handy To Hong Kong Dragon Boat Races
The three days of boat racing and festivities centered on Victoria Harbour can be experienced particularly well from the waterfront in East Tsim Sha Tsui. The area is close by for those who are staying in any of a number of Tsim Sha Tsui hotels, whether it's one of the Kowloon luxury hotels like Kowloon Shangri-La, Hong Kong, a design lifestyle address like Residence G Hong Kong (by Hotel G) or mid-level property such as Holiday Inn Express Hong Kong SoHo.
Tsim Sha Tsui's ultra hip, lifestyle-oriented hotels like Residence G Hong Kong have helped create the stylish feel to this vibrant and bustling area. It's a 43 guestroom property that offers a cutting edge, in-vogue style hotel experience.
Pulsating day and night to the bustling beat of life in ‘Asia's World City', Tsim Sha Tsui's streets are packed with all manner of shops, restaurants, tailors, brand name outlets and glitzy department stores. The area is also home to more than half of the Top 10 Hong Kong Attractions as listed on the Hong Kong Tourism Board website.
Many of the other vast choice in luxury, three star and boutique hotels Hong Kong has to offer in locations throughout the destination also provide easy access to the dragon boat carnival, thanks to the city's MTR (Mass Transit Railway) system. Its network covers much of the destination, with around 150 stations throughout Kowloon, Hong Kong Island, the New Territories and Lantau Island. It means those choosing a lifestyle hotel in Hong Kong in a quieter area away from the downtown hustle and bustle, for example, can comfortably access the dragon boat racing to.
The Star Ferry can also be taken from Central or Wanchai on Hong Kong Island across Victoria Harbour to Tsim Sha Tsui.
This year thousands of the world's top dragon boat athletes will again battle it out at the Hong Kong International Dragon Boat Races, in an annual spectacle that draws throngs of locals and visitors from the world over.
Adding to the party atmosphere over the same three days will be the BeerFest at UC Centenary Garden next door to the racing action, where athletes and spectators can mingle to live music performances as they enjoy a few cold ones.
From its humble beginnings in 1976 when Hong Kong fishermen took part in a dragon boat race off Shau Kei Wan that included one foreign team from Japan, the Hong Kong Dragon Boat Carnival is today a world-renowned event that plays out against one of the world's most iconic skylines.
There are various categories of races which will make up the 2015 Hong Kong Dragon Boat Carnival. The International Grand Championships will see winning teams from local and international races compete against Hong Kong's best for the Open Grand, Mixed Grand and Women's Grand Championship titles.
Teams from outside Hong Kong will compete in the Open, Mixed, Women's, Paradragon and Breast Cancer Survivor Championship races, the latter introduced in an effort to further promote the sport as a means to enhance physical and social wellbeing.
Top local teams will vie for the President Shield and Chairman Shield, and there will be a number of Local Championships and Local Invitational Races as well as some zanier races like the Fancy Dress Race open to local and overseas teams.
Tsim Sha Tsui's ultra hip, lifestyle-oriented hotels like Residence G Hong Kong have helped create the stylish feel to this vibrant and bustling area. It's a 43 guestroom property that offers a cutting edge, in-vogue style hotel experience.
Pulsating day and night to the bustling beat of life in ‘Asia's World City', Tsim Sha Tsui's streets are packed with all manner of shops, restaurants, tailors, brand name outlets and glitzy department stores. The area is also home to more than half of the Top 10 Hong Kong Attractions as listed on the Hong Kong Tourism Board website.
Many of the other vast choice in luxury, three star and boutique hotels Hong Kong has to offer in locations throughout the destination also provide easy access to the dragon boat carnival, thanks to the city's MTR (Mass Transit Railway) system. Its network covers much of the destination, with around 150 stations throughout Kowloon, Hong Kong Island, the New Territories and Lantau Island. It means those choosing a lifestyle hotel in Hong Kong in a quieter area away from the downtown hustle and bustle, for example, can comfortably access the dragon boat racing to.
The Star Ferry can also be taken from Central or Wanchai on Hong Kong Island across Victoria Harbour to Tsim Sha Tsui.
This year thousands of the world's top dragon boat athletes will again battle it out at the Hong Kong International Dragon Boat Races, in an annual spectacle that draws throngs of locals and visitors from the world over.
Adding to the party atmosphere over the same three days will be the BeerFest at UC Centenary Garden next door to the racing action, where athletes and spectators can mingle to live music performances as they enjoy a few cold ones.
From its humble beginnings in 1976 when Hong Kong fishermen took part in a dragon boat race off Shau Kei Wan that included one foreign team from Japan, the Hong Kong Dragon Boat Carnival is today a world-renowned event that plays out against one of the world's most iconic skylines.
There are various categories of races which will make up the 2015 Hong Kong Dragon Boat Carnival. The International Grand Championships will see winning teams from local and international races compete against Hong Kong's best for the Open Grand, Mixed Grand and Women's Grand Championship titles.
Teams from outside Hong Kong will compete in the Open, Mixed, Women's, Paradragon and Breast Cancer Survivor Championship races, the latter introduced in an effort to further promote the sport as a means to enhance physical and social wellbeing.
Top local teams will vie for the President Shield and Chairman Shield, and there will be a number of Local Championships and Local Invitational Races as well as some zanier races like the Fancy Dress Race open to local and overseas teams.
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