Mid-Levels escalator

Hi there,

My wife and I would like to check out and possibly ride the escalator. I understand it goes downtown only in the morning and uptown only in the afternoon. We would like to ride it in the afternoon. We were wondering if there is a bus stop near the upper terminal so that we can take a bus back down, or is it not too hard to walk the streets to get back down?

Thanks a heap in advance.

Mid-Levels escalator

The Mid-level escalator goes downhill before 10:00am, and goes uphill after 10:20am and for the rest of the day. At the upper terminal, there is are minibuses 3 or 3A which goes to Hong Kong Station in Central, costs HK$4.8 (pay when you get on, may use Octopus Cards or cash but no change given). Minibuses can stop anywhere along the route provided that section of road allows stopping, just say ';stop please';. If you want to take bus rather than minibus, go down one level to Robinson Road, there will be more choices for buses.

It is not too hard too walk back down, there are stairs built along the escalators. If you are going up in the late afternoon, you may walk back down to the lower level and have dinner around Elgin Street or Staunton Street, that%26#39;s we called the SoHo area.

Mid-Levels escalator

You can combine the escalator ride to a walking tour of the central and western districts (of HK island). Go to

discoverhongkong.com/eng/…route09

for a suggested itinerary.

Hi, been several times to HKG, walking back down is a breez, as its not just a constant flow of steps, it a mixture of walkways-steps, long ones, short ones, duck up a footpath one side of a road crossing then back along the other to even more stairs, all good fun, its HKG.

Tin

Will all of the bus drivers understand ';stop please';?

sistermags91,

I think many of the drivers will stop just because you say something, even though they don%26#39;t actually understand it. You can say ';yau lock'; which is the cantonese to say stop.

Never had a problem with getting off, its just sometimes by the time the driver finds somewhere to actually try %26amp; pull over a bit, your almost at the next stop, %26amp; if its with in sight will just go there anyway, but then nowhere is ever that far in HKG, unless youv%26#39;e been on your feet all day %26amp; even that last 100yds is a killer.