Well, no bus rides quite yet; but construction does start this week on the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge, scheduled to open its gates to traffic as early as 2015. At nearly 30km long, the bridge will span the Pearl Rover Delta and be one of the longest in the world, cutting travel time between Zhuhai, on the Chinese mainland, and Hong Kong from 3 hours to just 30mins. Macau's ferry operators will also be worried as the bridge is going to reduce travel time between Hong Kong and the former Portuguese colony to 30mins.

More on China and Macau

• Top Five Day Trips to China (including Zhuhai)

• One Day Tour of Macau
• Transport Guide; Hong Kong-Macau

Whether you're spending Christmas in Hong Kong or just visiting before the festive period, the city is an excellent spot to fill Santa's sleigh with presents. All this week we'll be bringing you our five favourite gifts from Hong Kong, starting today with suits.

Hong Kong tailors are famed for suiting and booting some of the world's biggest stars, as well as an army of businessmen from Minnesota to Manilla. Low-cost and high-quality, Hong Kong has long been a world-leader in producing bespoke suits at half the price and at twice the speed of their London and New York counterparts.

Whether it's a smart, wool number for work or an Italian inspired silk creation, if you know the measurements, a suit can make a great gift. Before you dive in to the buckles and buttons, check out the links below to help you choose both a suit and a tailor.

More on Hong Kong Tailors and Suits

• Hong Kong's Top 5 Tailors

• Top 6 Tips When Choosing a Suit
• Chinese Style Suits at Shanghai Tang

Michelin starred restaurant's are usually associated with snobby chefs, a guest list that reads like the line-up at Madame Tussauds and prices that can induce cardiac arrest. Not any more.

Michelin's second guide to Hong Kong has just been released and, alongside the swanky, five star hotel restaurants, a handful of more modestly priced restaurants have been endowed with a star. These include Tim Ho Wan (G/F Tsui Yuen Mansion, 2-20 Kowng Wa Street, Mongkok), in Mongkok, a tiny canteen style eatery that offers Dim Sum for as little as HK$10 (US$1,29). That's the cheapest Michelin endorsed meal you can get your hands on anywhere in the world.

Last year the guide was roundly criticised for focussing on upmarket eateries and European cuisines in what's considered the world's best city for Cantonese food, often at budget prices. This year they acknowledged their critics and added a number of Hong Kong's trademark eat and run food stalls, under the "simple shop category".

Read More

Idiot Proof Guide to Dim Sum in Hong Kong
Michelin Starred Restaurants in Hong Kong
Visit Mongkok (home of Tim Ho Wan)

Real deals can be hard to come by in Hong Kong so it's a relief to see the Hong Kong Card has some genuine savings up its sleeve not just the usual promotional promises.

The card offers 50% off or buy one get one free at some of Hong Kong's best restaurants and spas and claims to offer an average saving of HK$200 in restaurants and HK$1000 in spas. That doesn't seem like an idle boast considering the price of a meal at many Hong Kong restaurants, and with the card selling for HK$250 for a months validity, you'll likely make your money back in your first two restaurants.

Here's my favorite thing about the card, there are no restrictions. You don't need to spend the best best part of a day trying to decipher the small print with a magnifying glass; the card has no minimum spend, you don't need to book in advance and it can be used as often as you like.

They've also managed to include some of Hong Kong's best and best loved restaurants, with highlights including Lan Kwai Fong institution California, the sleek Scandinavian style of FINDS and the spicy Indian cuisine at Jashan. You can see a full list of where the card is valid and find out where to pick one up over at Hong Kong Card.

The holiday season in Hong Kong might mean Chinese New Year, but that doesn't mean you have to miss out on turkey and all the trimmings at Thanksgiving. Hong Kong has a number of hotels and American restaurants that are offering up authentic Thanksgiving meal sets, from gourmet feasts to grandmas home cooking. See the best Hong Kong has to offer in out Where to Eat Thanksgiving Dinner in Hong Kong.

Due to the time difference, catching the big game has been a perpetual issue, Dan Ryan's in (Pacific Place, Admiralty) shows games when open, while East End Brewery (Sunning Plaza, 10 Hysan Avenue, Causeway Bay) has been known to open late/early on occasion.

And, if you're looking for that manic Black Friday shopping experience, well, this is Hong Kong, and you won't be short on a selection of shops; try Hong Kong's top five shopping malls, or, for some more local flavour, the Hong Kong's top eight markets.

The world's biggest Formula 3 race and a proving ground for Formula 1 drivers in the making, the Macau Grand Prix has, over the years, been host to the likes of Michael Schumacher, Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton.

This year's race takes place between the 19th and 22nd of November and features a series of motor related events tagged on to the main race, including the Motorcycle Grand Prix and tour car racing. The event also brings a carnival atmosphere to both the Guia Track and Macau as a whole, as motorhead spectators descend on the former Portuguese colony on mass.

See our Guide to the Macau Grand Prix for the inside track on tickets, seating and the Guia circuit.

Image Copyright of Macau Grand Prix Committee

Bedding down at a Hong Kong hotel can come with a credit card melting price tag attached, so each month we try and bring you the best deals, promotions and give aways on hotel stays in the city

This month you can live the highlife in the five star Langham Hotel's Grand Room, which is offering one night free on five night stays, while the Regal in Kowloon is offering up to 30% off rack rates for guests who book far enough in advance. Find out more about these and other Hong Kong hotel deals in our monthly Best Hong Kong Hotel Deals

Vampires are breaking out their toothbrushes and werewolves are warming up their curling tongs, as Halloween in Hong Kong gets underway.

The city doesn't have a great tradition of celebrating Halloween but events this year are expected to be the biggest ever. Celebrations for the kids revolve around the haunted parades and spooky shows at Hong Kong Disneyland and Ocean Park, while adults can strut their stuff at the costume parties in Lam Kwai Fong.

If you're wondering what the rest of the world gets up to on October 31st, take a trip over to our Ultimate Halloween Travel Guide which covers the ghostly goings on from Salem to Scandinavia.

As if the Chinese visa situation in Hong Kong wasn't complicated enough, the authorities have now added a new type of visa. Called the "144-hour Convenient Visa Guangdong Province, China", it certainly wins the most ridiculously titled visa award.

The visa is only for foreign nationals visiting Hong Kong and allows group visits to Gunagdong Province via Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Foshan, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Jiangmen, Zhaoqing and Huizhou.

There are a couple of major drawbacks to the visa. You must travel in a group, with a minimum of 3, and you must all enter and leave the country together. And the real reason for introducing it; you must arrange a 'tour' through a Hong Kong Travel Agent. This may not necessarily mean booking a six day, guide led, itinerary packed tour, but simply paying a fee to the tour agency to win yourself the visa. Another Chinese visa scheme that helps the travel agent and not the traveller. You can use CTS or Grayline to book the tour and visa. You can get an in depth, blow by blow of the new visa in our guide to the Guangdong Group Visa.

Individuals will need to use the Shenzhen Visa, if they want a taste of China, or a full Chinese visa if they are ineligible for the Shenzhen Visa or travelling to areas in Guangdong outside the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone.

After the debacle of knocking down Hong Kong's Star Ferry Pier and putting several historic markets in Wan Chai out of business - all in the name of progress - Hong Kongs' government took a beating on the public opinion front. Protests, petitions and rock bottom popularity made the government think again about their policy of knocking anything down when a businessman flashed a smile and his bulging briefcase.

Now, proof that they've put their bulldozers away, at least for now, in a plan to conserve key areas of the Central Financial District. The plan promises access to the waterfront for the public, the conservation of Central's bustling market and the preservation of key colonial buildings in the area. That said, it's unlikely any of these impressive and important buildings will survive intact, with most likely to end up as 'heritage projects'. Hotels and shopping malls to you and me. Still, it's a step in the right direction.

See some of Hong Kong's Historic Buildings

Half Day Hong Kong Colonial Tour

Tea at the Peninsula Hotel