Best location for commuting to airport every day.

[MovingIn07]

You can also walk from Tung Chung to Cathay City and most of the similar airport support functions. Or cycle for those who think that 15 mins is a long walk.

[carang]

tsing yi is also a very easy commute to the airport... but only look at the buildings above the mtr station.

[MovingIn07]

I guess also none of us answered your original question.

Tai Po - I wouldn't - there is no real reason to live there and other places are more convenient and more expat orientated.
Sai Kung - lovely place, wouldn't commute to the airport from there. If that's the kind of place you want to love, try Gold Coast for the nearer (not as nice, but nice in its own right) alternative.
Mid-Levels - this would work but the downside is that accommodation will be HUGELY more expensive, as will your commute cost (HKD100 each way on the Airport Express). But if you need the bright lights of the city and ex-pat bars - it might work.

[carang]

commuting from sai kung to the airport by car takes about 1 hour. it is highway almost the entire trip, if you go via sai sha road/shatin/eagle's nest tunnel.

[Mat]

I guess also none of us answered your original question.

Tai Po - I wouldn't - there is no real reason to live there and other places are more convenient and more expat orientated.
Sai Kung - lovely place, wouldn't commute to the airport from there. If that's the kind of place you want to love, try Gold Coast for the nearer (not as nice, but nice in its own right) alternative.
Mid-Levels - this would work but the downside is that accommodation will be HUGELY more expensive, as will your commute cost (HKD100 each way on the Airport Express). But if you need the bright lights of the city and ex-pat bars - it might work.

Why would they take the airport express each way and pay 100 HKD each time?

There are alternatives for ppl working in the airport/airlines and they are also alternatives for the public.

I regularly take the bus which cost 20 HKD or so and takes 45 mn from my work place, 5 minutes more that the 10 minutes taxi to the airport express + 30 minutes train.

[TheBrit]

In-town check-in and speed are the best reasons to favour Airport Express over buses. No lugging your luggage around, less time wasted at the airport and super quick. Love being able to less my apartment less than 2 hours before my flight takes off.

[Mat]

Not saying the opposite Griity. Only saying someone working at the airport or for an airline is un-likley to pay 100 HKD each way to the airport on the Airport Express.

[TheBrit]

Cathay staff get discounts on Airport Express, suspect this is true for a bunch of other airlines too. Regular same-day price is $180 return, but plenty of offers from local travel agents.

[MovingIn07]

I think the above is a perfectly reasonable debate, and if I lived in Mid-levels I'd probably take the bus over the Airport Express and save a packet. I think there are also online discounts for AE tickets. BUT whatever you do, it's still an expense OR a reasonably long journey to do every day if you don't have to.

While those of us who prefer to live in cheaper, quieter locations have no choice but to make a journey every day; those work WORK in the cheaper quieter locations certainly have a choice and I find it quite hard to understand why the OP would want to consider living in Mid- Levels, especially when their other named options were Sai Kung and Tai Po! Not exactly consistent locations.

I think what it says, if I'm honest, is that the OP has no clue about Hong Kong.

TO the OP - whatever you do - DO NO choose somewhere without being here and looking around IN PERSON. Many of the website lie, doctor photographs and nothing can give you a feel for the atmosphere of a place.

[wtbhotia]

clear water bay to airport on sunday at 7.50 pm took me 30 mins by car after realizing my boss (wife) flight lands at 8.15pm and not 8.50 pm