On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 18:30:54 +0100, "Elaine"
wrote:
>Many years ago on our first visit to Hong Kong, we went on the evening
>cruise from Victoria Harbour to Aberdeen. It's one of my most lasting
>memories, entering Aberdeen Harbour in the darkness with all the apartment
>windows lit up all around. It felt like that bit in the first Star Wars
>film, when they enter the Death Star!
>
>We've never done it since on any of our subsequent visits, but we'll be back
>there the week after Christmas this year and I'd really like to repeat the
>experience to see if it really was as good as I remember. Trouble is, all
>the tours I've found include dinner at the Jumbo and we'd really like to
>pass on that if possible. Has anybody done a cruise from Victoria to
>Aberdeen without the Floating Restaurant experience please
If its just the part of the cruise through Aberdeen Harbour you're
interested in, you could see that for free by taking the Jumbo
restaurant's own ferry out to the boat.
They run two routes to the boat, one shorter route from jetty behind
the car park next to the Aberdeen Boat Club in Shum Wan Road. The
other one leaves from the main road that runs along the waterside in
Aberdeen itself. That's the one you need to take as its about 10
minutes longer, and passes through a larger section of the harbour.
Just wander around the Jumbo for a few minutes and take the next ferry
back again.
If you want a much longer trip, you could take the regular public
ferry service from Central, but you'll have to go via Lamma Island to
get to Aberdeen that way. The HKKF ferry runs from Central to Yung
Shue Wan on Lamma Island about once an hour. The trip costs about
HK$15 and takes 45 minutes. You'd then need to take another ferry from
Yung Shue Wan on to Aberdeen, which is about another 20 minutes. That
ferry is less frequent, so you'll have to check the timetables to make
sure you get a good connection. There are lots of restaurants in Yung
Shue Wan itself, especially seafood, so you might want to have dinner
there on the way. You could take a bus or taxi back from Aberdeen to
wherever you're staying.
Chris
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