When you arrange your trip through a travel agency, a visit to a jewelry shop or a factory outlet is almost always inevitable. This is a way for the local tour guides or agency to make more money off the tourists.
On our trip to Hong Kong, after the compulsory city tour (the word "compulsory" rubs me the wrong way, but whatever), we were brought to Tokwawan Road in Kowloon at Jacky Chan's Jewellery City Co..
There was some cursory introduction about jewelry making, but everyone knows we were there to be tempted to buy their merchandise, and were ushered to the showroom post-haste.
It's not bad really, my sister and I bought some silver rings for $150 and our mom loved her bedazzled $400 magnetic bracelet so much, she swears days later that claims of its "healing properties" were true ( No hypertension in weeks! She enthused).
I guess it's not a total waste of time and our tour of the factory outlet in Hung Hom resulted in me finding my friends' usual choice of pasalubong (ref magnets) and we bought some quality shirts for $100 so I'm not complaining too much.
But do be quick about looking around these places or else you won't have much time in Disneyland or wherever you're supposed to go after that. Don't linger more than you have to, buy what you want or need and skedaddle. Spending time in Disneyland and Ocean Park are way more fun.
Jewellery City Co. Ltd.
Unit A3, Ground floor
Merit Industrial Centre
94 Tokwawan Road
Kowloon, Hong Kong
Tel (852) 2764-1133
Fax (852) 2764-175
Email jcl@jewellerycity.com.hk
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