Planning+for+Hong+Kong

Philippe suggested we try using a wiki to plan the trip to Hong Kong. I liked the idea and hopefully we won't have to keep sending emails to each other but have our planning on this wiki. Let me know what you think of this idea.

There are two pages at the moment - this page and a page for the original proposal that Nick approved and has been sent to Hong Kong.

The people who have access to contribute to this Wiki are: Sam, Melinda, KC, Robyn and Bridget. I will add the Chinese teachers when I get their email addresses from school.

__Here is what has happened so far.__

The dates for the trip are Tuesday, February 26th to Saturday, March 1, 2006. Nick was the one who chose the dates. He did give us Tuesday as a travel day. The proposal went to Priscilla when she was here in September. The teachers that are listed to go on the trip are: Robyn, Bridget, Melinda, KC, Sam and Jane Liu. I will stay home and run as I say "the mother ship". This is my choice.

Rain is contacting the travel agent to get a quote on our flights. As per last year, Rain will handle all of the details for flights, passports etc. as well as coordinate Finance for us when we begin to get in deposits etc.

I contacted Salisbury YMCA and received a quote back this morning (Saturday). I have included the info in this wiki so you know where we stand at the moment. Iris is the woman I dealt with last year. I sent an email to her this morning making a tentative reservation for the dorm rooms and the remaining rooms as twin shares except for the teachers. Apparently, all the standard rooms are already booked for those dates.

I asked for her for the quote for the bus and the truck for the luggage the same as we had last year. While we had planned to use the speed train into the city the YMCA made the suggestion about the bus and truck and it worked out very well as we didn't have to worry about the kids right away. It also gave us time to view the city of Hong Kong and observe right from the beginning a lot of the differences between Hong Kong and Beijing.

This trip will be different this year as it is not a Geography trip but is using a number of areas of the curriculum. This was suggested by Nick and he approved the cross curriculum approach.

We have not received official permission from Hong Kong but Nick told us to go ahead and plan. We will need to plan our first Parent's first info meeting in the next few weeks.

I need to nail down a tentative budget and then we can talk to the parents.

If it is OK with everyone I will oversee the planning as I did last year but we will need a lot of collaboration of how we are going to make this a great educational experience for the kids. We learned a lot last year and I know it will be even better this year.

Looking forward to everyone using the Wiki and hearing ideas.

Heather

//In/out date : February 26 - March 1, 2008 (4 nights) -Please note our check-in time is after 14:00 hours and our check-out time is at or before 11:00 am

-7 dormitory rooms (we have 7 dormitory rooms only) -17 partial harbour view rooms (our standard room is fully booked)
 * No. of rooms & room types :

Room rates : Dormiotry room : HK$920 + 10% service charge per room per night - Our dormitory room is approx. 250 square feet in size. It consists of 2 double decker bunk beds in a room for 4 persons in same gender. - Partial harbour view twin / double room : HK$820 + 10% service charge per room per night (Please feel free to click

Breakfast is HK$109 per person for an adult and HK$89 for kids**//