Hey
i am looking for a 2 or 3 bedroom service apartement with 2 seperate bathrooms and a balcony.
has anyone experiences with these goldcoast apartements ?
The apartement would be for one couple and a guy.
best
thomas
Hey
i am looking for a 2 or 3 bedroom service apartement with 2 seperate bathrooms and a balcony.
has anyone experiences with these goldcoast apartements ?
The apartement would be for one couple and a guy.
best
thomas
Goldcoast is good. I believe Tsing Yi is also good.
The Gold Coast website is highly misleading (I live there, in the Marina) and the pictures are all doctored. So, you need to take a realistic approach.
Yes, these are some of the most cost-effective service appartments in HK - they are relatively large, the GC is not full so everything is less crowded than other places in HK.
The ameneties are excellent - if you have a family and like sports (gym, football field, squash, tennis, excellent swimming pool) you will be very happy. Also close to the beach and walking distance to hiking and biking trails.
The shops are about a 5 minute walk away - a decent supermarket with many expat goods; chemist; coffee shop and many restaurants of different foods and variable quality.
However - where will you work?
The shuttle bus to Central no longer runs, so if you work on the Island your options are a shuttle bus to Olympic in the mornings plus MTR (40mins, very annoying journey though); or the 962 public bus - more like an hour on peak but an easier journey (just sleep or surf or work).
Connections to other places are much better - really good links to the airport, tsuen wan MTR, tuen mun.
In terms of the apartment, when I looked at the serviced apts I didn't think much of the furniture (oldish, not really matching) but it was good enough.
Hope this helps.
By the way - I don't know what DeletedUser wrote because I have him on my ignore list, but he spent a month in Gold Coast several years ago and something about it really upset him. He's been dissing the place ever since, just fyi.
Gold Coast - cheap for a reason!
sounds simple and true..
i would also work over there in the apartement but in the evenings i would go downtown.
Beside working there i would need to go also to shenzhen for working.
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Thomas
The reason Gold Coast is cheap is location. It's a long way from Central. It's more expensive than other properties (e.g. Aegean coast) in the same area (mostly due to Sino pricing policies).
Where in Shenzhen would you need to go? If near Lu Wo, then GC is a bad idea. It takes about 40 mins from here to Lu Wo. If Sheko/Shenzhen Bay port area, then this is a good place - direct bus from Tuen Mun taking about 10 mins to Shenzhen Bay Port/Sheko.
Hi
thanks a lot for your good help. I neeed to go to Lo Wu when i need to go to china.
So Nothern New Territories still the best choice ?
I mean we also wanna go downton in the evening sometimes per week to relax there.
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Thomas
if you commute to shenzhen via lowu on regular basis, the horizon suite ( near university station, around 5 minutes on mini bus) on the east line is ideal, but there is nothing to shop or visit around there
if you really want affordable with decent space, sheung shui and fanling are town areas more for your buck, however, very few expats live there, but the villages surrounding these places are definitly affordable, ie, village near sheung shui, 1 fl 700 sq ft, 2 or 3 bed from 6.5-8k, but sha tau kok is by the far cheapest, you can get 1 fl 700 sq ft, 2 or 3 bed floor of a rural house for HK$5
Last edited by imparanoic; 03-05-2013 at 09:42 PM.
i am not sure if you have ever seen a map of HK, gold coast is destinated part of west new territories, ie, tuen mun region ( I can even tell you why tuen mun is called this name as there is a military historical reason why it called tuen mun)
northern new territories is defined as shueng shui, kwu tung, fanling, sha tau kok parts of new territores, which are geographically northest points of HK, any thing north pass tai po or east of yuen long/lok ma chau/fairview park is deemed as northern new territories