Lantau Enlightenment Group Tour with Tai O Seafood Snacks
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6h
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About this experience
No trip to Hong Kong is completed without visiting the giant outdoor Buddha statue, ‘sitting’ in Lantau Island. Lantau Island is the largest and the greenest outlying island in Hong Kong. To appreciate Lantau’s diverse attraction, this tour offers an efficient way for you to explore Ngong Ping and Tai O. The tour will bring you to 4 attractions that you can’t miss in Lantau Island for your vacation (transportations and all admission tickets are inclusive).
- Round trip hotel transfer with English speaking tour guide
- Skip the queue and save time to board on Ngong Ping cable car
- Enjoy stunning view of HK International Airport & HK-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge from cable car
- Have a closer look at the imposing Buddha statute
- Experience ‘the Venice of the East’, explore traditional Stilts Houses and Tai O Heritage Hotel
- Inclusive boat ride in Tai O fishing village
Available options
Group Tour -Standard Cabin
Standard Cabin Cable Car Tour: Please provide your hotel name and address upon booking. You will be picked up from your hotel lobby on the list, or inform the nearest pickup hotel to go, with a clear map, and pickup time.<br/>Pickup included
Private Upgrade -Crystal Cabin
Private pickup and drop off: Please inform pickup time from cruise terminal, airport, or hotel. This is a private tour. Only your group will participate<br/>Pickup included
2-in-1 Standard Combo
Standard Cabin + Dinner Cruise: Standard Cabin Cable Car Tour + Buffet Dinner on Victoria Harbour Cruise from 19:30 to 21:30 + Return transfer to your hotel<br/>Pickup included
Group Tour -Crystal Cabin
Crystal Cabin Cable Car Tour: Equipped with a glass bottom, the Crystal Cabin is designed to feast your eyes with an astonishing birds eye view. Feel the magic of the boundless sea and the rolling grassland.<br/>Pickup included
2-in-1 Crystal Combo
Crystal Cabin + Dinner Cruise: Crystal Cabin Cable Car Tour + Buffet Dinner on Victoria Harbour Cruise from 19:30 to 21:30 + Return transfer to your hotel<br/>Pickup included
What's included
The Stilts House (Boat Ride Included)
Po Lin Monastery
Kowloon Side: Royal Plaza Hotel, The Kowloon Hotel, Kowloon Shangri-La hotel.
Ngong Ping Village
Due to expectation to explore downtown & traffic in rush hour, drop off is offered in 6 places only.
Tai O Heritage Hotel (Grade II historic building)
Tai O Fishing Village
Fast Pass one-way Ngong Ping cable car (crystal cabin is optional with additional fee)
Hong Kong Island Side: Harbour Grand Hong Kong, Renaissance Harbour View Hotel, IFC Shopping Mall
After tour, you will be dropped off at one of the above 6 places. Please inform a preferred place.
Do you pickup from my hotel, or ask me to go to a departure point? Book now and see pickup time.
Pickup from major centrally located hotels. Or meet tour guide & other tourists at a departure point
Tian Tan Buddha Statue (informally known as the Big Buddha)
Detailed itinerary
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Stop 1
Join us for a relaxing afternoon in your Hong Kong vacation. The adventure will begin every afternoon from Lantau Island, a popular place to experience another side of Hong Kong for travellers.
2
Stop 2
In this tour, you will see breath-taking view by riding the Ngong Ping cable car, the best starting point to the Big Buddha. Ngong Ping Cable Car connects Tung Chung and Ngong Ping. The 5.7km cable car journey offers visitors spectacular 360-degree panoramic views of South China Sea, Hong Kong International Airport, North Lantau Country Park and Giant Buddha.
3
Stop 3
In Ngong Ping village (surrounded by lush mountains), you will see scenic and interesting attractions everywhere. Known as the "Buddhist Kingdom in the South", Po Lin Monastery is the most popular Buddhist temple in HK.
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Stop 4
A must-go attraction in the village is the extraordinary bronze Big Buddha Amoghasiddhi statue (erected in 1993 and 34 metres high, weights 250 tons).
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Stop 5
You will then take a coach to the historic Tai O fishing village. Traditional stilt houses and its market are very famous, not to mention the boat ride, you will feel the breeze on your face with fresh air! The boat ride will take you exclusively to the Tai O heritage hotel which previously was one of the earliest police stations built in New territories. In Tai O, you will see community of fisherfolks who’ve been living there for generations yet only a few old villagers remain to live in a traditional way there for now.
What's not included
Gratuities
Dinner
2-way taxi fare between your hotel and the departure point if your hotel is not in the pickup list.
Pickup from a hotel in Shenzhen
Available languages
Guide guide
EN
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Important information
Public transportation options are available nearby
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
You will be picked up from hotel lobby, or you will be advised to meet with your tour guide and other tourists at the nearest departure point. This tour is a seat-in-coach tour. You will buy a seat on a tour coach, share an escorted tour with other tourists. If you do not like the lengthy tour start time, please choose the option of "Private Upgrade -Crystal Cabin".
If you stay in a local home or a hotel not in the pickup list, please inform of the address upon booking. You will be informed of the nearest pickup hotel and pickup time to meet your tour guide. Your reply of approval of this pickup arrangement and deadline of apply time is critical. No show at the meeting place will receive no refund.
If you book an activity less than 24 hours prior to the scheduled activity start time, you are required to telephone the local tour supplier immediately right after your booking. The telephone number of the local tour supplier is displayed on your voucher. The office is open from 0700 to 2100 Hong Kong time. If no one answers the phone call after office hour, please telephone again at 0700 next day to add you in the pickup list. Otherwise the tour bus will not go to your hotel.
Upon pickup, your tour guide will find you by eye contact, or read your name from the pickup list. Meeting point is hotel lobby or you will be advised of the nearest meeting place to meet with your guide. Please be waiting at the meeting place 10 minutes prior to departure. No refund for your no show or late arrival.
At the cable car station, most people line up to buy ticket on site and enter through Individual Entry. The normal waiting time is 2 hours. Your prepaid confirmation coupon allows you to use Group Entry. Less people line up here. Group Entry is a privilege benefit for travel agents' customers only.
Coach transportation between Tung Chung and Ngong Ping will be arranged as a substitute when the cable car service is suspended due to maintenance, or severe weather warning.
$20 retail cash coupon will be issued for use in Ngong Ping 360 souvenirs shops if the boat ride in Tai O village is suspended.
This tour is not open for customers who live in a hotel on Lantau Island (Disney Resorts, Novotel Citygate, SkyCity Marriott, Regal Airport Hotel etc): You will be asked to book a morning tour including lunch, 2-way cable car transfers: (1) The meeting time is 10:55 at the Taxi Stand at Tung Chung; (2) Tour ends at Tung Chung Cable Car Station at 4pm. (3) Please use the keyword "Coach Day Tour - Lantau Island Visiting and Giant Buddha Cable Car Tour Plus Tai O Boat Ride" to find this morning tour on Internet. (4) Taxi transportation will be arranged by yourself. It costs around HKD118 one way for 20 minute driving distance.
Pickup service is not available from airport, cruise terminal, subway station and railway station.
How to join in this tour from Kai Tak Cruise Terminal: Please take a taxi for 15 minute to meet with your tour guide in the lobby of Harbour Plaza Metropolis (7 Metropolis Drive) at 12:40.
How to join in this tour from Ocean Cruise Terminal: Please walk for 6 minute to meet with your tour guide in the lobby of Marco Polo Hongkong Hotel (3 Canton Rd, Tsim Sha Tsui) at 12:55.
How to join in this tour from West Kowloon Station: Please take a taxi for 15 minute to meet with your tour guide in the lobby of B P International House (8 Austin Road) at 12:40.
How to join in this tour from airport: (1) Please take 24-minute Airport Express train, get off at Kowloon Station, go out from Exit D1, walk for 97m (2 minute) to W Hong Kong Hotel (Add: 1 Austin Road West, Kowloon Station, Kowloon). The pickup time from W Hong Kong Hotel is 12:40am daily. Your tour guide has a pickup list and will find you in the lobby. After tour, come back to W Hong Kong Hotel at 18:30 after tour. From Airport Station, the 1st train leaves at 05:54. From Kowloon Station back to airport, the last train leaves at 00:52. (2) You take your own risk of missing your flight. Please only book this tour when your flight leaves from HKG after 22:00. The latest information of security check from airport is: Access control measures are being taken at terminals. Visitors are advised to arrive 3 hours before departure for proper checks. All booking request missing departure flight information and leaving HKG before 22:00 will not be accepted. (3) Round trip airport express fare or taxi fare will be paid by yourself. No refund or discount on original tour price. (4) No refund for no show or late arrival caused by arrival flight cancel and arrival flight delay.
Kindly remind our tour coach is for sightseeing only, there is no luggage room, your luggages might be put between seats. So please do not travel with big luggages. If you need hotel pickup, a tour, and going directly to airport after this tour, your booking will be rejected.
The standard cancellation policy is: (1) a 100% refund for cancellations made at least 24 hours in advance of the start date of the experience. (2) Cancellations made within 24 hours of the start date of the experience will receive no refund.
Children aged 2 and younger are complimentary.
Important notes
The pickup time is for your reference only. Please call local tour operator for a confirmed pickup time 1 day prior.
PICKUP TIME FROM BELOW HOTELS IN KOWLOON
1 Attiude Granville Hotel 1255
2 B P International House 1240
3 Best Western Grand Hotel 1255
4 Best Western Plus Hotel Kowloon 1300
6 Butterfly on Prat 1300
7 Caritas Bianchi Lodge 1240
8 Casa Hotel 1245
9 Cordis Hong Kong Hotel 1235
13 Dorsett Mong Kok Hotel 1230
15 Eaton Hotel 1245
17 Guangdong Hotel Hong Kong 1300
19 Harbour Grand Kowloon 1230
20 Harbour Plaza 8 Degrees 1235
21 Harbour Plaza Metropolis 1240
22 Hilton Garden Inn Hong Kong Mongkok 1235
23 Holiday Inn Golden Mile 1310
29 Hotel Icon 1250
32 Hotel Panorama by Rhombus 1310
33 Hotel SAV 1230
34 Hyatt Regency Hong Kong TST 1305
35 Inn Hotel 1235
36 Intercontinental Grand Stanford Hong Kong 1250
37 InterContinental Hong Kong 1255
38 Kerry Hotel Hong Kong 1230
39 Kimberley Hotel 1255
40 Kings Hotel 1245
41 Kowloon Hotel 1255
42 Kowloon Shangri-La Hotel 1250
43 Langham Hotel, Hong Kong (TST) 1250
44 Largos Hotel 1245
46 Marco Polo Gateway Hotel 1245
47 Marco Polo Hong Kong Hotel 1255
48 Marco Polo Prince Hotel 1245
49 Metropark Hotel Kowloon 1230
50 Metropark Hotel Mong Kok 1230
51 Nathan Hotel 1245
52 New World Millennium HK 1250
54 Novotel Nathan Road Kowloon Hong Kong 1245
55 Park Hotel 1300
56 Peninsula Hong Kong 1250
57 Prudential Hotel 1250
59 Regal Kowloon Hotel 1250
60 Regal Oriental Hotel 1230
61 Rosedale Hotel Kowloon Mongkok 1230
63 Royal Plaza Hotel 1230
65 Shamrock Hotel 1250
66 Sheraton Hong Kong Hotel & Towers 1255
68 Silka Seaview Hotel 1245
70 Silka West Kowloon Hotel 1230
72 Stanford Hillview Hotel 1255
73 Stanford Hotel (MongKok) 1235
74 The City View 1235
75 The Empire Hotel Kowloon 1255
76 The Imperial Hotel 1310
77 The Luxe Manor 1255
78 The Mira Hong Kong 1255
80 The Ritz-Carlton 1240
81 The Royal Garden 1250
82 The Royal Pacific Hotel & Towers 1245
84 W Hotel 1240
85 West Hotel 1245
87 YMCA of Hong Kong (The Salisbury) 1255
About Hong Kong
Hong Kong is a vibrant metropolis where modern skyscrapers coexist with ancient temples and lush nature. Known for its bustling streets, world-class cuisine, and stunning harbor views, it offers a unique blend of Eastern and Western cultures.
Top Attractions
Victoria Peak
Victoria Peak offers breathtaking panoramic views of Hong Kong. The Peak Tram is a historic funicular railway that takes visitors to the summit.
Nature
2-3 hours
HKD 130-200 (Peak Tram and Sky Terrace)
Tsim Sha Tsui Promenade
This waterfront promenade offers stunning views of Victoria Harbour and the Hong Kong skyline. It's a popular spot for the Symphony of Lights show.
Scenic
1-2 hours
Free
Hong Kong Disneyland
A magical theme park offering classic Disney attractions, shows, and character meet-and-greets.
Entertainment
Full day
HKD 619-919 (depending on season and ticket type)
Lantau Island
Lantau Island offers a mix of natural beauty and cultural sites, including the Big Buddha and Tai O fishing village.
Nature/Cultural
Full day
HKD 110 (Ngong Ping 360), HKD 30 (Big Buddha entrance)
Temple Street Night Market
A bustling night market offering a variety of goods, from clothing to electronics, as well as street food and entertainment.
Shopping
2-3 hours
Free to enter, prices vary
Must-Try Local Dishes
Dim Sum
A variety of small dishes served in bamboo steamers, including dumplings, buns, and rolls.
Breakfast/Brunch
Vegetarian and vegan options available.
Roast Duck
Crispy-skinned duck roasted to perfection, often served with pancakes, hoisin sauce, and cucumber.
Lunch/Dinner
Not suitable for vegetarians or vegans.
Egg Waffles
Bubble-shaped waffles made from an egg-based batter, often served with ice cream or custard.
Dessert
Vegetarian.
Mango Pudding
A creamy, gelatin-based dessert made with fresh mango puree.
Dessert
Vegetarian.
Popular Activities
Hiking
Kayaking
Rock climbing
Spa treatments
Yoga
Beach lounging
Temple visits
Museum tours
Best Time to Visit
October to December
This period offers pleasant weather with lower humidity and clear skies, making it ideal for outdoor activities and sightseeing.
18°C to 25°C
64°F to 77°F
Practical Information
Language
- Official: Chinese (Cantonese)
- Widely spoken: English
- English: Widely spoken, especially in business and tourism
Currency
Hong Kong Dollar (HKD)
Time Zone
GMT+8
Electricity
220VV, 50HzHz
Safety Information
Overall Safety Rating: Generally safe
Hong Kong is generally safe, with low crime rates and a well-developed infrastructure. However, petty crime and scams can occur, especially in tourist areas.
Important Precautions:
- • Be cautious of your belongings in crowded areas
- • Use reputable tour operators and taxis
- • Be wary of strangers approaching you with petitions or games
Getting there
By air
- Hong Kong International Airport • 34 km from city center
By train
Hung Hom Station, West Kowloon Station
By bus
China Travel Service Terminal, CITS Terminal
Getting around
Public transport
The MTR is clean, efficient, and widely used. It's the best way to get around the city.
Taxis
Available • Apps: Uber, Didi
Rentals
Car, Bike
Neighborhoods
Central
Kowloon
Wan Chai
Sheung Wan
Mong Kok
Day trips
Macau
60 km • Full day
A former Portuguese colony with a rich history and a mix of European and Chinese architecture.
Lantau Island
20 km • Full day
A scenic island with a mix of natural beauty and cultural sites, including the Big Buddha and Tai O fishing village.
Shenzhen
30 km • Full day
A modern city with a mix of shopping, dining, and entertainment options, as well as historic sites.
Festivals
Chinese New Year • January/February (varies by lunar calendar)
Tung Choi Wai Ching Chiu Festival • April (varies by lunar calendar)
Dragon Boat Festival • June (5th day of the 5th lunar month)
Pro tips
- Use the Octopus card for seamless travel on public transport
- Try local street food for an authentic culinary experience
- Visit Victoria Peak at sunset for stunning views of the city
- Explore the city's markets for unique souvenirs and shopping
- Take a day trip to Lantau Island for a mix of cultural and natural attractions
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