After leaving Bangkok our intention was to travel to Malaysia, however after another day of blistering Thailand sun we decided it was time for a cooler climate. We altered our plans and moved to Hong Kong instead.  Moving has always been pretty easy for us, throw our possessions into some bags and we are ready to go. Blu take's the lead when it come to packing, I tend to work on logistics ;-) .

Hong Kong is known for it high living cost, this of course meant down sizing to a smaller studio apartment. After some researching we found an apartment listed online. The pictures looked great so we contacted the company (Studio Studio) and paid our deposit. As we were to arrive over the weekend, Michael from the company wanted us to pay our rent in advance. I had to refuse this, insisting on first seeing the apartment.

Here are photos of the rooms Michael from StudioStudio indicated he have available.

As you may or may not notice there is somewhat of a difference here.  We very were tired after our journey, I spoke to Micheal on the phone and said that we needed to meet.  As of that moment I withheld the rent payment until the issue was corrected.

The following day we met Michael in the company offices.  I explained to him the studio was not as advertised, and there was obviously some mistake, if he would kindly move us to the correct apartment we would happily pay the rent as per the contract.

Things got a little weird at this point.  Michael said he had another apartment that we could see, it was bigger and nicer.  It was supposed to cost more, however due to the inconvenience he would keep the rent the same.  

This apartment was larger, but just as shabby.  Upon returning to the offices I explained that we were still were not happy with the arrangement.  This is when Michael became irate,  I remained calm and listened carefully.  I calmly stated our position, that he had not fulfilled his contract agreement with us and therefore there was no contract so to speak.  Michael started to ramble on about suing his company and that we wouldn't win, they couldn't return the deposit as they had no access to the money.

I again remained calm and simply restated our position, this went on for sometime.  Finally after numerous attempts at verbal acrobatics Michael gave up, I think he just wanted us out of the office at this point, amazingly he had access to money again and returned our deposit.  With the episode over we decided to head to a hotel for a night, allowing us to procure alternative accommodation.

After a little searching I emailed a lady at Good Hong Kong Serviced Apartments, she sent me photos of rooms they had available.  We found them to be professional, friendly, with excellent communication, and most importantly the apartments were lovely.  We moved in the following day.