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? and dubai

next year im visiting friends in dubai, and would like to visit a far eastern city also. can i ask which in your veiw is the best city to visit,the most expensive and the cheapest i.e for hotels food and drink.

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  • Mr_Wang
    Mr_Wang Posts: 1,302 Forumite
    edited 22 June 2012 at 8:35AM
    the_mackem wrote: »
    next year im visiting friends in dubai, and would like to visit a far eastern city also. can i ask which in your veiw is the best city to visit,the most expensive and the cheapest i.e for hotels food and drink.

    Best all round Far Eastern city for me is Beijing.

    But, if I was just going to kick back it would be Bangkok every time.

    Never been to Macau but heard good things about it.
  • martinthebandit
    martinthebandit Posts: 4,422 Forumite
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    I have been to Beijing, Hong Kong and Signapore and would happily go back to any of them for a few days.

    It all depends on what you like doing really

    If you don't find joy in the snow,
    remember you'll have less joy in your life


    ...but still have the same amount of snow!
  • the_mackem
    the_mackem Posts: 129 Forumite
    beijing never have thought that would have come up first expecting more hong kong kuala lumpa heard that singapore is expensive ?,i do like a bit of shopping love my food and drink and visit historic places.
  • martinthebandit
    martinthebandit Posts: 4,422 Forumite
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    the_mackem wrote: »
    beijing never have thought that would have come up first expecting more hong kong kuala lumpa heard that singapore is expensive ?,i do like a bit of shopping love my food and drink and visit historic places.


    Sounds like Beijing should be your first choice then, you are only an hour from the great wall and shopping is an experience :D

    Lots of great food, but for some reason I decided not to try one restaurants speciality, pigs organ soup :(

    But to be honest any of the cities in that part of the world are great to visit. I suppose it really comes down of where you can get the best flight and hotel deals.

    If you don't find joy in the snow,
    remember you'll have less joy in your life


    ...but still have the same amount of snow!
  • daveyjp
    daveyjp Posts: 14,146 Forumite
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    KL for me. Lots of cultures, plenty to see and kind on the pocket.
  • Doshwaster
    Doshwaster Posts: 6,406 Forumite
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    the_mackem wrote: »
    beijing never have thought that would have come up first expecting more hong kong kuala lumpa heard that singapore is expensive ?,i do like a bit of shopping love my food and drink and visit historic places.

    The biggest cost in Singapore is hotel accommodation. You are really talking European prices. KL, on the other hand, has some fantastic hotels at bargain prices - it's somewhere where you can really afford to stop in 5* hotels for the cost of a damp B&B at home. If you like food and shopping then KL is a great choice but the historic sites are outnumbered by shopping malls and the drinking is very expensive due it being a Muslim country.
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