Originally Posted by
evochick
really ?? so you are telling me lots of people didnt take the tuesday as well ??
and people lied to me
The national day holidays in China are a #%$^# if you want to go anywhere or see anything. All shops are closed on the 1st Oct only though. It's called Golden Week locally because everyone is on holiday for a week and they go traveling/shopping in droves with HK being high on the list of places to go. HK retail thrives on this so shops taking more than 1-2 days off would be shooting themselves in the foot.
Regular businesses taking the extra day off would not be any case for alarm though, especially if they do lots of business with China itself.
P.S. Best time to travel to China/HK is directly after a big holiday.... Everywhere is quiet and some good bargains can be had
