Hong Kong Airport to Tsim Sha Tsui transport

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Hong Kong Airport to Tsim Sha Tsui transport
Going to be making a trip soon with family and many cases, anyone who has done this transfer to the hotel in the past, how did you do the transfer? Taxi? How long does it take, how much did it cost?
Any alternative options i am obviously missing bar jumping in a cab at the airport?
 
Destination said:
Hong Kong Airport to Tsim Sha Tsui transport
Going to be making a trip soon with family and many cases, anyone who has done this transfer to the hotel in the past, how did you do the transfer? Taxi? How long does it take, how much did it cost?
Any alternative options i am obviously missing bar jumping in a cab at the airport?
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Get off the plane.

Go to a 7-11.

Get an Octopus card, top it up with £20.

Get your phone out and log into airport wifi (it's free). Search either MTR app (you can use this offline) or google app for directions but if I recall you just go to Central and change.

Go to MTR, get on it, should be about 45mins.

Don't use cabs, Uber has a presence there, that is probably cheaper and you can pay by the app and don't need cash. If you are picking a cab, get in the Red ones, not the Green or Blue.

*One warning, Central is a MASSIVE station, it's possibly the largest underground I have ever been to, includes London, Rome, New York, Tokyo, Paris, Barcelona, Berlin. It can take about 20 mins to just walk from end to end easily.*

There are more than 1 way to get there but the one to Central is you only change once. Personally I would avoid Central and change trains twice. Central, like the name suggest can be really really congested. Although both Google Maps and also the App prefer to go to change at Central. The journey will cost you about £5.

What hotel you staying at? I am staying in TST too so will have to make the same journey.

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Destination said:
Park Hotel Hong Kong

61-65 Chatham Road South,
Yau Tsim ****, Kowloon

Is where we are staying
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You are going to have a bit of a walk, 10 min according to Google with your luggage. In that case, might be worth getting an Uber as they have more sizes options and because most HK Taxi are the red ones where it seats 5 max and the boot often have a large LPG tank in (converted) so there are not that much space, certainly not enough space for 4 or 5 large cases.

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Destination said:
Thanks Ray, how much do the MTR cost from the airport to central per person?
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$60 HK, its about £5.

You can get the ticket at the machines (it can be in English), but I prefer Octopus card which you need to buy but you can use them like NFC cards to pay for rail, buses, some taxi, even food at 7-11 or some restaurants even.

3 (phone network) has a presence there so if you are on 3, you will have free Data.
 
I love Hong Kong. If I was loaded I'd buy a place there. My friends parents used to have a condo on Tai Tam Road and it was just amazing to spend time there. I hate to think how much it costs to live there now.
 
panthro said:
I love Hong Kong. If I was loaded I'd buy a place there. My friends parents used to have a condo on Tai Tam Road and it was just amazing to spend time there. I hate to think how much it costs to live there now.
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Property is insane but if you do have a place, everything else is quite reasonable.

Transport is cheap, food is cheap, named brands are the same as here although alcohol is more London prices than Birmingham.
 
@Raymond Lin Will it be worth getting the tourist variant of the Octopus card from the airport instead, or is that the variant you are referring to?

I only stumbled across this the other day as last time I was out there I got the standard Octopus card (granted not from the airport which is where they only seem available)?
 
I can't see that there's any benefit to the "tourist" version, of the card, they seem to sell it as a souvenir to take home with you. You can get a regular octopus at any MTR station, I think I have about 6 of them in a drawer because I always forget to take them when I visit :p
 
Feef said:
I can't see that there's any benefit to the "tourist" version, of the card, they seem to sell it as a souvenir to take home with you. You can get a regular octopus at any MTR station, I think I have about 6 of them in a drawer because I always forget to take them when I visit :p
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Ah I see. Haha I've still got mine from 2014 but kept it as a memorabilia more than anything.
 
Travelled from Central to the airport just over 12 hours ago. Cost just over $370 including toll payments and luggage fees.

Sad to be back. :(
 
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