Hong Kong Series: Eugene Baby Store

Welcome to my Hong Kong mini series! I'm doing separate posts on food, shops, and more Hong Kong photos! Enjoy!

A few days before I left for Hong Kong, I was googling for baby stores. I want to check out what products they have there that we don't have here and I read about Eugene Store. Initially, I was supposed to go to the one in Central (beside H&M) because that was what I read but while we were at Windsor House in Causeway Bay, I saw that they also had a branch there! So on our first day in HK, I went to check out Eugene Store!

Eugene is located at the 16th floor of Windsor House. It's one whole floor of baby store!

Upon entering, you could see the display of a wide range of strollers of different brands!

I was in heaven!

They got aisles and aisles of baby products, I could stay here for hours! But since I was with my shoti, I had to be fast so he won't get bored.

I didn't get to check out the prices of the products because it would take me a long time! There's so many! Haha! I browsed thru each aisle, stopping to check out things that got my attention.

There's a display of playpens and high chairs at the back of the store.

They a got a nook for the cribs.

And this is my favorite section! They have "model nurseries" with different themes!

Oh how I wish we could have a one-stop shop for all our baby's needs! It would be nice to have one so we won't have to go to different SM branches, Baby Company, Mothercare, and Rustan's just to check out what the other stores don't have! It's not easy to shop when you're pregnant and nesting or when you have a baby or a toddler who's very makulit. Hehe!

Eugene has branches all over Hong Kong.
Branches (you can view their shop list here [it's in Chinese]):
16/F Windsor House, Causeway Bay
Queen's Road, Central (beside H&M)

Hong Kong: Day 1

I'm making a Hong Kong Series post apart from this Hong Kong kwento of mine!

My planned HK trip was supposed to be next year pa but my achi got pregnant and didn't want to risk traveling while she's pregnant so she gave her ticket to me! Yay! Our tickets were the free ones from HSBC! About a week before, I was worried I won't have pocket money to spend but my mom reminded me that I still got HKD left from my last trip to HK 2 years ago and true enough, I have HKD kept in my cash box! Weee shopping na ito!

This trip was mainly me-time, tax refund stuff, and shopping trip! I didn't shop for a long time to able to give Y a nice 1st birthday party!

Our flight was 6:10AM the day after Pedring ravaged the sea walls of Roxas Blvd, we were kind of worried our flight will get cancelled but it didn't! We're on the same flight with the Azkals!

Watched True Blood on the plane!

We arrived at around 8:10AM in Hong Kong, immigration was a breeze! That's why I love my HK ID! No need to line up, just my ID and fingerprint, and I'm good! 

We took the Cityflyer bus going to our hotel. We took the A11 bus, fare costs 40HKD for one way ticket and 60HKD for a round trip ticket. It's a 45-minute to 1 hour trip from the airport to Causeway Bay, good thing there's an onboard Wifi! It's fast and kept me updated on twitter for an hour! I even got to pump because there's just a few passengers! Oh oh, I love double-decker buses that's why I always ride on the top haha!

Cute Marc Jacobs ad on a tram

We got to our hotel around 10:30AM, check-in time was 12NN so we had lunch first! We always eat at this congee place whenever we're in HK. I had the Century Egg with Pork Blood congee plus a side order of Plain Rice Rolls with XO sauce and the staple HK milk tea! Yummm! 

After having lunch, my mom and aunt went to the bank. While me and my shoti went to Windsor House to check out Toys R Us and Eugene Baby (will do a separate post!) then to IKEA where I bought a few stuff. We went back to the hotel, waited for them in the lobby and took advantage of the free WIFI, finally checked-in, rested for a while then trooped our way to Mong Kok.

There's nothing much to see anymore in Mong Kok Ladies Market. Well if you're going to buy sneakers, it's the place to be. We checked out Mong Kok Computer Centre where I ended up buying my portable 1TB HD for 699HKD. After all the walking, we had dinner at Cafe de Coral, a popular fast food in Hong Kong. Mom and aunt had their asado, chicken and duck fix, while me and shoti had steak!

We were all tired by the time we got to the hotel. But they made a pitstop at Wellcome, while me I had my dessert fix!

There was still time to shop and walk around but we all woke up at 3AM, so we were all dead tired. I pumped and washed my breast pump then hit the sack!

Up next: Hong Kong Day 2!