Flat F 55/Floor Sky Tower Sung Wong Toi Road, Kowloon City, Kowloon Hong Kong

Living on the 55th floor is freaky at first because it is like living on the calgary tower, but what a view. The landscape stretches to the mountains beyond Victoria Bay. Hong Kong is a densely populated city with equally dense forest surrounding the populated areas. In our apartment complex there are 6 towers #12356&7. The Chinese word for 4 is so close to the word for death that they do not include building 4 or floors that have 4 in them except they draw the line at the 40th - 49th floor. The developers are deciding that excluding all of the 4 floors is crazy however they do exclude floor death/death ie: 44. They do exclude 14, 24, 34 ,44,54. So all that to say this: We actually live on the 47th floor. But there are only 3 floors above us and it is a very amazing view.

Our complex is only a couple of years old. Our apartment was bought by its owner for 2.2 million HK$: that is about $330,000.00 CDN. There are shiny tile floors and marble counters in the kitchen and bathroom. The kitchen is small but utilitarian. The main room has 2 Ikea chairs and a table with 4 chairs. There are 2 bedrooms with double beds in them. well let me explain. The rooms have window sills are 18 inches wide so we put the foot of the master bedroom bed against the sill and bought a mattress pad to extend over the sill and then Dirk's feet do not fall off the end of the bed. It extends the bed and then Dirk fits. Other apartments we looked at were cheaper and better set up but the beds ran across the 6' room and Dirk could not lay on them without hitting the wall. he is like a special needs kid- we modify the surroundings to suit his needs. Haha... anyway it is all working just grand. The other room had a single bed and we did the same thing. If you put the bed beside the window sill and extend a double mattress pad over the bed and part of the sill you make a new size- single becomes double. a set of double sheets and there you have it. All of the apartments have this window seat area- not sure why. Worked out marvelously with a little imagination.

There is a pool room, work out area, massage chairs, and common area for use for free. We pay a nominal fee $1.30-$2.00CDN for using the outdoor pool. It is apparently open May to October. It has a "Circulate Lane" which no-one circulates in. They just swim back and forth down the middle. Nice. The pool is surrounded by roman looking architecture, palm trees and spitting dolphins. It is resort like. Nice free lockers and showers.

The Sky Tower complex has door-persons/security and easy access to great shops and restaurant. The area has cheap food that tastes good and a daily outdoor market with fresh meat (will not buy) fresh fish (ditto) and live frogs for the buying (ditto). It is cheaper to eat out than to cook and so there will be minimal cooking in flat F 55.

There is air conditioning in each room with a remote control on, off and regulate function. The temperature outside is 35*C. There is much sweating that goes on here so the apartment kept cool and comfortable and clean is a sanctuary from the 8 million people around us.