Hi can someone do me a massive favour and translate these Hotel names to the cantonese name phonetically

1        Ashley Apartments
2        BP International
3        Empire Kowloon Hotel
4        Gateway Hotel
5        Guangdong Hotel (Gong Dong Chau Tim)
6        Holiday Inn Golden Mile Hotel
7        Imperial Hotel Kowloon
8        Inter-Continental Hotel Hong Kong
9        Kimberley Hotel
10        Knutsford by Swiss-Belhotel
11        Kowloon Hotel (Gaw Long Chau Tim)
12        Langham Hotel
13        Luxe Manor Hotel
14        Marco Polo Hong Kong Hotel
15        Mingle Place Hotel
16        Miramar Hong Kong Hotel
17        Park Hotel Tsimshatsui
18        Peninsula Hong Kong Hotel
19        Prince Hotel
20        Prudential Hotel
21        Ramada Hotel
22        Renaissance Kowloon Hotel
23        Royal Pacific Hotel & Tower
24        Shamrock Hotel
25        Sheraton Hotel & Towers
26        Stanford Hillview Hotel
27        YMCA Salisbury Hotel

[ Last edited by  bluedickboy at 18-4-2008 16:08 ]

Are you trying to figure out what hotels the agents tell you to go to? Don't bother.. half the mama and papasans can't speak cantonese properly... even locals have a hard time trying to decipher what they are saying over the phone.... I usually have to ask them to repeat themselves 2 or 3 times just to make sure they are saying the correct hotel name.. If in doubt, just ask the agents for the english name of the hotel, and most of the time they should know...

You've been here (in HK) before ... so you should know how to get around, you should also know
that if someone took the time (don't know who in their right mind would) to write the translations for you
you still wouldn't get the pronunciation right anyway ! Suggest you check the yellow pages and call the
27 hotels to ask them for their Cantonese name.

  I like to see some of the hotel girls working out of hotels like ...
The Pen, Inter-Continental & Sheraton

Are you saying that half the agents are not local Chinese? I speak Mandarin to all the agents, and I've yet to run across one who spoke Mandarin natively.

That would be great...I am usually at the Island or Kowloon Shang...that would be convenient

Of course, based out of there, their rate will probably triple

I'm having heart palpitations looking at your avatar

[ Last edited by  twiceAweek at 19-4-2008 00:10 ]

well, I dunno what they are then.. I speak cantonese with them, and a lot of them certainly speak cantonese with a heavy mandarin or some mainland dialect accent...

The whole world should speak English - solve all these language problems that people seem to have. It's gonna happen
eventually - just a question of time.    

Jake ... maybe so ... but not in our lifetime !