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Repulse Bay

When people talk about Repulse Bay, which is on the South Side of Hong Kong Island, they are normally talking about the whole area, not just the bay itself.  It's a upper middle class residential area with many of the tower blocks of appartments you'll see elsewhere in Hong Kong, but larger and nicer quality instead.

The bay itself has a nice beach and is a common place for people anywhere in Hong Kong island to go for a swim, it is an official public beach which means there are lifeguards and a shark net, changing rooms and showers and so on.

There also used to be a very nice old colonial style hotel called the Repulse Bay Hotel which had a typical colonial style verandah on which one could sit and be served afternoon tea in the traditional English style.  Unfortunately the hotel was demolished in the 1980's to make way for one of those big apartment blocks I mentioned.  But they did rebuild a replica of the verandah (aka veranda) which is now a nice restaurant called "The Verandah".

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