If you have only 1 or 2 nights in Hong Kong and youre uncomfortable roaming around on your own, an organized night tour might be your best choice. Water tours offers four evening tours that combine harbor cruises with various land activities. If youre in Hong Kong anytime from September to May on a Wednesday evening, you can go to the horse races in Happy Valley or Sha Tin. Night Strolls is one of the most beautiful and romantic sights in the world must be from Victoria Peak at night. If youre looking for colorful atmosphere, head for the Temple Street Night Market, near the Jordan MTR station in Kowloon. Extending for several blocks, it has stalls where clothing, accessories, toys, pens, watches, sunglasses, cassettes, household items, and much more are sold.
Theaters & Concerts
City Hall Add: Connaught Rd. and Edinburgh Place, Central District Description: Located right beside the Star Ferry concourse, City Halls Low Block has a 1,500-seat balconied concert hall, as well as a 470-seat theater used for plays and chamber music. Exhibitions are frequently held in the foyer, while the lobby has pamphlets of upcoming events.
Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts Add: 1 Gloucester Rd Wan Chai Description: Located across the street from the Arts Centre, the academy is Hong Kongs institution for vocational training in the performing arts. It also features regular performances in theater and dance, by both local and international playwrights and choreographers. Its Theatre Block is composed of six venues, including the Lyric Theatre, Drama Theatre, Orchestral Hall, and Recital Hall; theres also an open-air theater.
Hong Kong Arts Center Add: 2 Harbour Rd Wan Chai Description: Built on Wan Chais new waterfront of reclaimed land, the Arts Centre hosts the Hong Kong Arts Festival and other international presentations, as well as performances by Hong Kongs own amateur and professional companies. It offers a regular schedule of plays or dances, exhibition galleries, and showings of foreign films. There are three auditoriums: Shouson Theatre, McAulay Studio Theatre, and Lim Por Yen Film Theatre.
Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra Add: 10 Salisbury Rd Tsim Sha Tsui Description: Established in 1977, the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra is the worlds largest professional Chinese-instrument orchestra (they play Chinese instruments, mainly stringed, which are completely different from Western violins, cellos, etc.). It features more than 80 full-time musicians who perform both new works and traditional pieces in approximately 30 concerts annually, playing a wide range of traditional and modern Chinese instruments and combining them with Western orchestrations or Chinese music.
Hong Kong Cultural Center Add: 10 Salisbury Rd Tsim Sha Tsui Description: The Hong Kong Cultural Center is the territorys largest arena for the arts. Opened in 1989, this complex is a good bet for free music and events, including family shows on Saturday afternoon from 2:30 to 4:30pm that may include Chinese dance, a magic show, or music. It features a 93-stop, 8,000-pipe Austrian Rieger organ--one of the worlds largest. Two levels of seating surround the stage, which is set near the center of the oval hall. There are also two theaters, the Grand Theatre, used for musicals, large-scale drama, dance, film shows, and Chinese opera, and the smaller Studio Theatre, designed for experimental theater and dance.
Bars & Clubs & Teahouses
C Club Add: 30-32 DAguilar, Lan Kwai Fong Central Description: Its open Monday to Thursday from 6pm to 2am, Friday from 6pm to 5am, and Saturday from 9pm to 5am.
Curve Add: 2 Arbuthnot Rd Central Description: This is one of Hong Kongs friendliest and most crowded gay bars, with a long bar upstairs and a mirrored dance floor downstairs.
Fringe Club Add: 2 Lower Albert Rd Central Description: Open Monday through Thursday from noon to midnight and Friday through Saturday from noon until 2am.
JJs Add: 1 Harbor Rd Wan Chai, In the Grand Hyatt Hotel Description: JJs is open Monday to Thursday from 6pm to 2am, Friday from 6pm to 3am, and Saturday from 7pm to 4am.
Joe Bananas Add: 23 Luard Rd Wan Chai Description: Ladies get in free until 1am and even get free drinks on Wednesday from 6pm to midnight. Theres dancing Sunday to Thursday from 11:30pm to 5am and on Friday and Saturday from 11:30pm to 6am.
Propaganda Add: 1 Hollywood Rd Central Description: Hong Kongs longest-standing and most popular gay disco. Its open Tuesday to Thursday from 9pm to 3:30am, Friday and Saturday from 9pm to 5am.
Agave Add: 33 DAguilar St Central Description: Open Sunday through Thursday from 5pm to 1:30am and Friday and Saturday from 5pm to 3:30am.
Als Diner Add: 39 DAguilar St Central Description: Its open Monday to Thursday from 11:30am to 1am, Friday and Saturday from 11:30am to 4am, and Sunday from 11:30am to midnight.
Alibi Bar and Brasserie Add: 73 Wyndham St Central Description: Its happy hour Monday to Saturday from 6 to 9pm includes complimentary canap|s. Its open Monday to Thursday from noon to 3am and Friday and Saturday from noon to 4am.
BBOSS Add: 14 Science Museum Rd Tsim Sha Tsui East, New Mandarin Plaza Description: Its open daily from 1pm to 4am.
Bahama Mamas Add: 4-5 Knutsford Terrace Tsim Sha Tsui Description: Its open Monday to Thursday from 5pm to 3am, Friday and Saturday from 5pm to 4am, and Sunday from 4pm to 2am.
Bottoms Up Add: 14 Hankow Rd Tsim Sha Tsui Description: Its open daily from 5:30pm to 3:30am.
Caledonia Add: 10 Harcourt Rd Hutchinson House, Central Description: Its open Monday to Friday from 8am to 2am and Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 2am.
California Add: 24-26 Lan Kwai Fong St Central Description: Its open Monday to Thursday from noon to midnight, Friday and Saturday from noon to 4am, and Sunday from 6pm to midnight.
Captains Bar Add: 5 Connaught Rd Central, In the Mandarin Hotel Description: Its open daily from 11am to 2am.
Carnegies Add: 53-55 Lockhart Rd Wan Chai Description: Its open Monday from 11am to 2am, Tuesday to Friday from 11am to 5am, Saturday from noon to 5am, and Sunday from 5pm to 5am.
Chasers Add: 2-3 Knutsford Terrace Tsim Sha Tsui Description: Happy hour is from noon to 9pm Sunday and the rest of the week from 5 to 9pm. Its open daily from noon to 6am.
Club 97 Add: 9 Lan Kwai Fong Central Description: Its open Monday to Thursday from 6pm to 4am (happy hour 6-8:30pm), Friday 6pm to 4am (happy hour 6-10pm), Saturday 7pm to 4am (happy hour 7-8:30pm), and Sunday 8pm to 3am (happy hour 8-10pm).
Coyote Bar & Grill Add: 114-120 Lockhart Rd Wan Chai Description: Happy hour is daily from 3 to 8pm and midnight to 2am. Open daily from noon to 3am.
Cyrano Add: 88 Queensway Central, In the Island Shangri-La, Pacific Place Description: Its open Monday to Thursday from 5pm to 1am and Friday and Saturday from 5pm to 2am.
Sky Lounge Add: 20 Nathan Rd Tsim Sha Tsui, In the Sheraton Hotel and Towers Description: This plush and comfortable lounge is on the top floor of the Sheraton, affording one of the best and most romantic views of the harbor and glittering Hong Kong Island. Theres soft live music Monday through Saturday nights from 9pm to midnight. Its open Sunday to Thursday from 2pm to 1am and Friday and Saturday from 2pm to 2am.
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