@ Hong Kong's China Ferry Terminal to Macau

When planning a trip to Hong Kong, I highly recommend an excursion to Macau. It's just a ferry ride away, so why not? It also helped that in our case, my mother has Portuguese ancestry and she was excited to somewhat get in touch with her "roots" by visiting this former Portuguese colony.

I had my travel agent fix our itinerary for our Macau day tour. I wanted to make sure we'd have the chance to visit both the historic places in Macau and also the towering casinos. We were picked up by 8:00am to go to the Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront where the China Ferry Terminal is located. The New World First Ferry tickets we got was for 9:00am so we had plenty of time to chat with the nice Chinese-Canadian lady who was waiting to board a ferry to Guangzhou.

We passed through Hong Kong Immigration and found out that my sister misplaced the extra copies of the arrival cards we filled out previously so we had to fill in new ones, but aside from that, we breezed through immigration as usual.

                                     

 At about 8:30am, we were instructed to proceed to berth 13 to wait for boarding. The number 13 is not unlucky for the Chinese unlike for most of the world which I think is refreshing, but apparently 4 is a "no-no" for them because it rhymes with "death" in their language, hmm they are not as evolved as I first thought. So at exactly 9:00am we boarded the New Ferry LXXXVI and we're off.

Taking a ferry from Hong Kong to Macau is said to be the most popular way to travel between the two Special Administrative Regions and now I know why. It's very convenient, it just took us an hour to arrive at Macau's Outer Harbor Ferry Terminal. The ride was smooth and the view from the boat was amazing and at HKD 139 it was cheap too.

China Ferry Terminal
33 Canton Road, Tsim Sha Tsui
Kowloon, Hong Kong
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