Elle and Bien at Crowne Plaza East Kowloon, Hong Kong, 2012

Originally posted on November 7, 2012.
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I am here at Crowne Plaza East Kowloon, Hong Kong, as one of the international participants of the Economic Freedom Network (EFN) Asia conference, sponsored by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF) and the Lion Rock Institute (LRI). I checked in last November 5, conference November 6-7, and will check out tomorrow and fly back to Manila.

It’s a tall building, 43 storeys high. I took this from the 1^st floor, outside the main ballroom. 

A huge driveway with a water fountain in the middle. This is shared by three tall buildings – Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn Express, and Vega Suites. And it is connected to a modern mall leading to Tseung Kwan O MTR station.

My room at the 38^th floor, it’s cool. My wife, Elle and Bien joined me here. My hotel and plane fare is shouldered by the organizer, so I and my wife just shared for their plane fare. HK-Manila is just 1:45 hour away and there are budget airlines to take. My two girls like their bed, and a huge flat tv to watch the cartoon network.

They did not interfere with my conference participation as they went on their own, I see them only late at night when I come back to the room as the dinner and fellowships would normally end past 9pm.

The girls at the hotel's swimming pool.

Nice view from the 38^th floor. Holiday Inn Plaza is equally big and tall. Hong Kong is famous for thousands of tall buildings. It has few flat land, it’s mountainous, so whatever flat land there is can easily be snapped for building high rise structures.

I like this hotel. Well, I’m not really a frequent traveler, and each hotel is unique. I and the girls just enjoyed our stay here.