Tai O Heritage Hotel, Hong Kong: Creature comfort in a converted cop shop

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Updated January 27 2017 - 9:19am, first published 9:00am
Colonnade at Tai O hotel.
Colonnade at Tai O hotel.
Tai O Heritage Hotel guest room.
Tai O Heritage Hotel guest room.
Tai O fishing village.  Photo: Marco Wong
Tai O fishing village. Photo: Marco Wong

I never contemplated that my visit to Hong Kong would become quite the police matter it would turn out to be. But here I am in Tai O, a traditional fishing village about an hour from Kowloon but, in effect, a million miles removed from it. After having voluntarily detained myself here for a night I soon discover that one of the steel shutters on a window of my accommodation has several bullet holes embedded in it and the roof of the building is topped with a couple of serious-looking gun emplacements.

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