Tuesday, 30 December 2025

Guangzhou-HK Day 6: High Speed Train to Disney's Hollywood Hotel

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It was our final breakfast at the Horizon Club before we checked out!

Eggs omelette
I may have over-ordered, since it was our last breakfast at the Horizon Club!
Love the yogurt! 🩷
Eggs Benedict from the ala carte menu

We checked out at 10.30am and hailed a premium 6-seater DiDi (CN¥179) to Guangzhou South Railway Station. The journey was approximately 30 minutes.

We spotted this interesting 'donut building' on our way to the station! Super cool!
We arrived at 11.25am
Guangzhou South Railway Station was huge!
There were not many people (by China standards at least) as it was their off-peak season for travel 😁

We had booked our Guangzhou to Hong Kong High Speed Rail tickets via the Railway 12306 app 15 days prior to travel as that's when the tickets were released for sale. Our tickets cost CN¥215 per adult and CN¥108 per child, excluding credit card fees. There were many trains to Hong Kong and the duration ranged between 45 minutes to 2 hours, depending on the number of stops on the route. We chose the 12.23pm train, which would take 1 hour and 3 minutes!

I'd definitely recommend to arrive at least 1 hour before the train departs as you'd need time to clear security and walk to the platform. 

Needed my daily dose of milk tea and got myself a cup from the bubble tea shop

We headed to the platform the moment the gates were opened for boarding and scanned our passports at the gate. The process was very fast and simple. 

Our train!

We got to our seats with time to spare and thankfully so, because the train departed 2 minutes ahead of schedule! Do not be late! 😅

At our seats
Seats were comfortable, with a table for placing a tablet or food
The trains look so sleek and cool

The journey was so fast and smooth that in a blink of an eye, we had arrived at Hong Kong West Kowloon Railway Station! It was 1.25pm when we arrived at the platform but due to the dreadfully long immigration clearance process where we had to clear both the China and Hong Kong immigration before we can exit. The whole process took the same amount of time as the train journey itself! 😓 We must not take for granted the efficiency of Singapore's ICA! 💖

By the time we were seated in Tim Ho Wan (loved it ever since we first tried it in 2014), it was already 2.30pm! We were starving! 😖

Follow the signboards to Tim Ho Wan (West Kowloon Station) 
Dim sum is a must in Hong Kong 
Group photo before the food came
We ordered all of our favourites! Yummy!
The Littlest loved the braised meat on rice!
We also ordered chee cheong fun, vegetables and congee.
My favourite osmanthus jelly and Hong Kong milk tea 😋

The Hubby felt that the Chua Lam's Dim Sum outlet we tried in Guangzhou was cheaper and better than Tim Ho Wan! Although they've lost the wow factor over time, I still thought it was good overall.

After lunch, we walked for about 10 minutes to Kowloon Station to take the MTR train to Disneyland Resort Station.

Walking to Kowloon MTR Station via the bridge
Kowloon MTR Station
Taking the special Disney train
Disneyland Resort Station

The journey took longer than I had expected and it was almost 5pm by the time we boarded the complimentary shuttle to our Disney hotel!

The shuttle bus to our resort

There were 3 official hotels at Hong Kong Disneyland Resort. We've previously stayed at Hong Kong Disneyland Hotel in 2016 and Disney Explorers Lodge in 2019, so we decided to stay at Disney's Hollywood Hotel to "complete the set"! 😜

Disney's Hollywood Hotel
Decorated with many Disney elements
The Boy received 2 birthday pins as it was his birthday week!
More Disney elements captured by the Boy

We booked 2 Marvel Standard Rooms at $538 per room per night via Agoda, inclusive of breakfast for 2 adults per room (more details in the next post). We thought the price was reasonable given that Hong Kong hotels in general and Disney hotels in particular were pricey!

Lifts to the guest rooms
Our Marvel room had two beds that were larger than super single but smaller than queen
TV and sitting area
The design of the wall was quite nice
Love the movie themed bed side table and 20th anniversary stationery!
Very small kitchenette and very cute Avengers bedroom slippers
Relatively small bathroom with the usual toiletries
Small but usable bathtub
View from our room
The hotel prepared a small "towel cake" and card for the birthday boy!
There was an ice machine on our floor near our room!

We knew we wouldn't have time to enjoy the pool over the next 2 days so we squeezed in a quick swim before dinner!

Back entrance of Disney's Hollywood Hotel
The pool entrance followed the Hollywood theme
The pool had many life guards and a slide
Enjoying our evening swim

The pool was the smallest of all the 3 Disney official hotels and even though there was a slide, the water wasn't fast flowing so it wasn't very fun because the kids couldn't slide down fast enough.

After swimming, we took the shuttle bus back to Disneyland Resort Station and transferred to the train to Tung Chung Station, where the Citygate Outlets was located. We would visit Citygate Outlets every time we stayed at Hong Kong Disneyland Resort as it was the nearest shopping mall.

Front entrance of Disney's Hollywood Hotel at night
Our journey to Citygate Outlets
Christmas installation at Citygate Outlets
Shine like a star!
Very cute and cheery
Found a nice backdrop for my OOTD photo!

We had arranged to have dinner with my cousin, who was living and working in Hong Kong. She suggested Golden Dragon Sizzling Steak though the queue was relatively long.

Golden Dragon Sizzling Steak
Finally we managed to get a large table for 7
My favourite Hong Kong milk tea (yes #2!) and the sizzling steak
Steak was really good!

After a satisfying dinner, we checked out the supermarket before heading back to our hotel.

Bought strawberries for the Littlest as usual

It seems like we have no fate with the Ngong Ping 360 Cable Car even though it was located right at Citygate Outlets. It was not in operation in 2016 the first time we visited. Oh well.

Looking forward to Hong Kong Disneyland! 😁


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P.S: Here's the full list of my stay at Disney Hotels around the world:


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