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Hong Kong Sights

Central Escalator

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Good for: Escalator enthusiasts?, hong kong lover

Not good for: Anyone else

  • Address
    • Cochrane St, cnr Shelley & Peel Sts Central
  • Transport
    • Central (exit C), Central
    •  Graham St Market Graham St, Central
  • Phone
    • 2523 7488
  • Price
    • admission free
  • Hours
    • down 6-10am, up 10.20am-midnight

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Lonely Planet review for Central Escalator

The world’s longest covered outdoor people-mover is part commuter travelator, part sightseeing ride and part pick-up procession. It consists of elevated escalators, moving walkways and linking stairs on the 800m hill from Central’s offices to the bedroom communities of the Mid-Levels. The best part is gliding by the Shelley St bars; there’s just enough time to make flirtatious eye contact with the denizens within.

 

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    Great at night

    jag2729 recommends this,

    Start at the bottom around Central and work your way up to Soho. It was great to do at night with the kids. There are so many restaurants and bars you wont know where to choose to eat! My husband and I loved it more than the kids. Go at night for a drink outside one of the many bars. There are also many stores to shop in. The streets have many fruit and flower vendors, as well as the usual magazines and books. This was one of our favorite parts of the trip!

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    Massively overrated!

    cellordoor does not recommend this,

    Yes, it's a cool idea, fair play to whoever built it, really useful if you live and work in the area, but as a tourist attraction?! Come on!
    As supposedly the best travel advice company in the world, I think Lonely planet should be ashamed of themselves for thinking that this set of mechanical stairs strung together by worn out plastic corridors should even make it close to the top 50 things to see in Asia! Madness!
    By all means take the time to have a look if you happen to come accross them by chance, but definitly don't go out of your way to find them.
    Maybe i'm being a little harsh, what did I really expect, it's a giant escalator right? Wrong! Not even that, it's just lots of little ones! I reiterate, whoever wrote that list of sights in Asia, and the list of things to do in Hong Kong, for that matter, should be severely punished!!!

    Good for: Escalator enthusiasts?

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    Long but pretty cool!

    rujun recommends this,

    Experience Hong Kong's citizen on their way to work and back. Many shops to see on the way, expecially SoHo. Not bad if you want to just people-watch and take in the atmosphere.

    Good for: hong kong lover

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    great free ride

    melyuan recommends this,

    Surely one of the best fun free entertainments in Hong Kong. Get behind-the-scenes by getting above street level. A fascinating insight into Hong Kong and a human marvel - "how did they think of it?!"

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