{"id":2535,"date":"2025-02-24T00:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T00:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travel.monkeydads.com\/2025-southeastasia\/feels-like-forever-on-hkg\/"},"modified":"2025-02-24T00:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T00:44:07","slug":"feels-like-forever-on-hkg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.monkeydads.com\/2025-southeastasia\/feels-like-forever-on-hkg\/","title":{"rendered":"Feels like forever on HKG"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We arrived earlier than stated at Hong Kong and after figuring out transfer re-check (including downing a giant bottle of water) we were on the airport. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It felt good walking again so we just wandered for a while. Very few places were open yet, but we did find coffee!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After coffee we went hunting for a lounge to chill in. The lounges are either available for a visit of 2 hours max, or just 3 hours prior to boarding. We put together a plan to do some lounge hopping and found the first one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Looking at our watches we noticed one says 4am and one is at 8am. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since airport time is its own dimension of time and space, we got some wine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cheers!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/travel.monkeydads.com\/2025-southeastasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/images-posts\/1011-feels-like-forever-on-hkg.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-1011\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">HKG<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/travel.monkeydads.com\/2025-southeastasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/images-posts\/1012-feels-like-forever-on-hkg.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-1012\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Nothing is open yes, except Starbucks of course. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/travel.monkeydads.com\/2025-southeastasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/images-posts\/1013-feels-like-forever-on-hkg.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-1013\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Yup. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We arrived earlier than stated at Hong Kong and after figuring out transfer re-check (including downing a giant bottle of water) we were on the airport. It felt good walking again so we just wandered for a while. Very few places were open yet, but we did find coffee! 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