Lantau Island Private Tour Hong Kong 2027
Big Buddha,Tai O Fishing Village, Po Li Monastery, NP 360 Cable Car in 8 Hours
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Lantau Island Private Tour Hong Kong 2027
Foreword by Jamie
Big Buddha,Tai O Fishing Village, Po Li Monastery, NP 360 Cable Car in 8 Hours
So this is what all the fuss is about
This page needed a proper rebuild, not a quick rewite and polish. The old Lantau Island posts on this site have not dated well. They read like I was still trying to explain the island to myself, and they sat in a marketplace that has since become a pile of almost identical listings. Big Buddha. Cable Car. Tai O. Pink dolphins. Venice of the East. Private car. Skip the queue. Lunch included. You can paste that paragraph onto 40 different pages tonight and nobody would notice the join.
I have been taking people to Lantau Island since 2011. I first went to the Tai O Fishing Village as a child in the 1970s. I spent a week in the old hostel at Po Lin Monastery in the summer of 1972, which is a detail I still find faintly comic because the Big Buddha was not even a hole in the ground then. I go back on my own several times a year to see what has shifted, what has been rebuilt, and what the listings are still getting wrong. That is the only honest way I know to write about an island that every tour company in Hong Kong now treats as a commodity,they all use stock images and their pages on an OTA like Viator are utterly confusing - you can have 3 prices for the same listing on the same page.
This is the 8 hour private tour. Big Buddha, both Po Lin Monasteries, Ngong Ping and the cable car one way down, and a proper walk through the Tai O Fishing Village. It is not the 4 hour Big Buddha Special. That shorter tour exists for a reason and I have already rebuilt that page. If you want the village as well, you need the long version. Anything advertised as Big Buddha plus Tai O in 5 or 6 hours is leaving something out or in a few cases simply misleading you, or it is moving you in a permitted private car I do not have. I will tell you the difference before you book.
Why the Lantau Island Tour became a commodity, and how I still stand in the middle of it
Lantau Island is Hong Kong's largest island. It holds the airport, a theme park, a latge chunk of country park, a 34m bronze Buddha, a 1906 monastery that still functions as a religious temple, a 2006 cable car, a purpose-built tourist village, and one of the last working stilt-house fishing settlements in the territory. That combination is irresistible to first-time visitors. It is also irresistible to coach companies, OTA (such as Viator) listings, free-tour operators who now sell a paid Lantau add-on, and visitors who quite reasonably think they can do it themselves with a stored-value travel card and a phone.
The problem is not that other people offer the tour. The problem is that most of the copy pretends the day is simple. It is not simple. The roads to Ngong Ping where the Buddha sits and the Tai O Fishing Village are restricted. There are only 75 blue Lantau taxis. The Ngong Ping 360 cable car has morning queues that can eat an hour. The 268 steps at the Big Buddha are optional and a lot harder than the photographs suggest. The village boat that is sold as a dolphin cruise is a 15 to 20 minute putter past stilt houses with a very thin chance of a almost mythical pink dolphins. There is no entry fee for the Buddha, the monasteries or the village, yet listings still write "admission included" as if they have handed you a ticket.
I stand out the old-fashioned way. I take 1 to 6 people. I am the guide, not a name on a roster. I use public transport because that is how Lantau actually works for anyone without a closed-road permit for their car. I run the tour backwards so we are not standing in a cable car line at 10am. I tell you what is theatre and what is still real. I would rather lose a booking than send you out with the wrong shape of tour.
Just how many Lantau Island tours are online using search
The scale of the problem is the problem. Type Big Buddha and Tai O Fishing Village into an OTA (such as Viator), GetYourGuide, Tripadvisor Experiences, Klook or a hotel activity desk and you do not get a shortlist. You get a pile. One Lantau page on GetYourGuide alone is carrying about 25 guided tours. A wider Hong Kong search on an OTA (such as Viator) throws the same island up inside a catalogue of 500 to 600 results. Then you add the company websites, the coach firms, the free-tour operators who now sell a paid Lantau add-on, and the same product listed two or three times by one operator at three different prices.
That is before anyone has checked what is actually included. Cable car in or cable car extra. Boat in or boat extra. Private car or a public bus sold as a coach. 5 hours or 8. Tai O Fishing Village as a proper walk or a 20 minute photo stop with a dolphin on the poster. The listings look interchangeable because most of them are. The guest from the other side of the world is not comparing craft. They are comparing thumbnails.
I am not asking you to feel sorry for me. I am telling you why a long, plain page is useful. If you cannot tell the tours apart from the headlines, you need the sentences underneath. That is the only reason this post is this long.
That is also why choosing the right guide with the right company is critical. On Lantau the stops are the same. The person standing next to you is not. A roster name, a flag, microphone and a timetable will get you to the statue. They will not tell you which listing is padding the hours, which boat is a dolphin fantasy, or whether you should have booked the 4 hour version and stayed off the island after lunch. The island does not sort that out for you. The guide does, or does not.
What this 8 hour tour is, and what it is not
This is a private 8 hour walking and public transport tour for 1 to 6 people. Hotel pickup and drop-off on Hong Kong Island or in Kowloon. We use the MTR (Subway), the ordinary Lantau buses, and when it makes sense a blue Lantau taxi that you pay for on the spot. We take the Ngong Ping 360 cable car one way down in the afternoon. We spend real time in the Tai O Fishing Village and real time at Ngong Ping. We do not bolt this onto a city morning and call it a full day.
It is not a private car tour. I have never owned or driven a car in Hong Kong. I do not hold the closed-road permit that lets a vehicle run Tung Chung to the Tai O Fishing Village to Ngong Ping without changing onto a bus. Friends of mine do hold that permit. Their work is great. If your group needs bags in a boot, a child who cannot face a bus, or a pace that only a permitted car can deliver, I will say so and I will introduce you. I will not pretend my public transport tour is the same product.
It is not a coach tour and it is not a flag-and-microphone shuffle. It is not the 4 hour Big Buddha Special. It is not a food tour. It is not a hike. It is not a guarantee that a pink dolphin will surface next to the boat. It is not a sprint off a cruise ship unless the ship's hours and your walking pace honestly fit, and most of the time they do not.
It is not Hong Kong Disneyland. That park is also on Lantau Island, which is why first-time visitors look at a map and assume one outing covers the castle, the statue and the village. It does not. Disney is still a huge distance from the Big Buddha and the Tai O Fishing Village. Separate ticket, separate queue, separate tour. If that is the morning you want, say so and I will point you at it. It is not this page.
Hong Kong International Airport sits on Chek Lap Kok on Lantau Island as well. Guests see that on a map and think the Big Buddha and the Tai O Fishing Village must be next door to arrivals. They are not. They are still a long haul across the same island, with restricted roads and a cable car that does not care about your boarding time. A proper 8 hour Lantau tour is a hotel-based job. A layover can work only when the connection is long enough that we are not turning a statue into a sprint. If a permitted car is the better tool for that gap, I will say so.
A note for cruise ship passengers and layover guests. Murphy's law comes into play on a Lantau tour, and I consider that before I accept the booking. The cable car stops. The bus is late. Fog sits on the plateau. A blue taxi does not appear. If the ship's all-aboard or the flight time cannot absorb a delay, I will say no, or I will steer you to the 4 hour Big Buddha Special, or I will steer you off Lantau altogether. I would rather lose the booking than watch the tour collapse against a gangway or a check-in desk.
Why I now offer 2 Lantau tours that skip the Tai O Fishing Village
I still do the 8 hour tour. I have done it since 2011. I am also now steering a lot of guests onto 2 other Lantau tours that skip the Tai O Fishing Village altogether. One is the 4 hour Big Buddha Special. The other is Victoria Peak plus the Big Buddha. Both exist because the village has become a marketing problem and an overtourism problem, and I am not going to keep selling a fantasy that collapses the moment you get off the bus.
Part of the problem is the spin. The Hong Kong Government and half the listings on earth still call the Tai O Fishing Village the Venice of the East. I have been to Venice. One look at any image of Venice will put that idiotic notion to rest. Most of my guests laugh when they first see the village. They have a picture in their head, and it falls apart on the pavement. I would rather they laughed with me in advance than stood there disappointed because somebody sold them a canal city that was never here.
The other problem is overtourism, and it is not a soft word. From midday onwards the Tai O Fishing Village is out of control. Paid group tours pour down from the Big Buddha, 40 people at a time, flag in the air, guide yelling through a microphone. I am heartily sick of fighting those groups off the lanes. It is a serious problem, not a colourful detail. The flags and the microphones come from every direction, not one nationality. With that many people it can be hard to get a seat on a village boat unless we arrive no later than 11am. The place is the victim of its own success. It was not like this in 2011, when I did my first tour there.
The waiting time for a bus or a blue taxi is a real issue. Worse is the look on a guest's face when they realise the village is not, in any shape or form, Venice. I still like the 8 hour tour. The joy has thinned because of that crush, particularly at the Tai O Fishing Village. What I am is realistic. I am not selling a fantasy tour that has no connection to reality. If you want the statue and not the village, take one of the 2 shorter Lantau tours. If you want the village as it actually is, and you can live without the poster image in your mind, the 8 hour tour is still the one.
The 4 ways people actually do Lantau island
There are 4 ways to see the Big Buddha and the Tai O Fishing Village in one tour in 2027.
A private guide with the rare Lantau closed-road permit and a private car. Hotel to village to statue and home again. Expensive. Smooth. The right tool for some groups.
A private guide with a small group of 1 to 6, using the MTR (Subway), buses and the occasional blue taxi. That is me. Hotel pickup and drop-off. The tour follows the same roads the cars use.
A cheap coach or large group tour, often HK$380 to HK$680 per person, 20 to 50 people, public buses sold as if they were a private coach, and a timetable that treats the village as a photo stop.
Do it yourself with a phone and a stored-value travel card. Plenty of people manage it. Plenty come back and tell me the village felt small and the queues felt larger than the statue.
I am not at war with the other 3. I am particular about which one I sell.
Why I run the tour backwards
Most listings start you at the cable car in Tyng Chung. That is the postcard. It is also the queue. On a weekday morning you can lose 20 to 40 minutes. On a weekend or a public holiday you can lose an hour, and there are several different lines before you even reach a cabin. The view from the cabin is the same in both directions. The timing is not.
So I do the island the other way round.
We start at your hotel. MTR (Subway) to Tung Chung. I have a way of getting us onto that train that guarantees a seat for our party. The ride is long, 45 to 60 minutes, and standing for the whole of it is a poor start to an 8 hour tour, so I do not leave the seats to chance. Bus 11 along the north coast to the Tai O Fishing Village while the village is still a working place and not a late-morning crush. Time on foot. Time, if you want it, on a short village boat. Then a blue taxi or Bus 21 up to Ngong Ping. The Big Buddha, both monasteries, the plaza, the cattle, the talk. Cable car down to Tung Chung in the afternoon, when the line at the top is usually a couple of minutes. MTR (Subway) home.
That sequence is the whole point. We spend the morning on the thing that dies if you rush it, which is the village, and we spend the afternoon on the thing that photographs well even when you are tired, which is the statue and the ride down the hill.
How the 8 hours tend to run
I do not send sample itineraries. The hours below are a shape, not a script.
Hotel to Tung Chung on the MTR (Subway) is usually 45 to 60 minutes including the wait for a train, and as I said, I have a way of getting the party seated for that ride. Bus 11 to the Tai O Fishing Village is 45 to 55 minutes on the road, plus 10 to 30 minutes at the stop, longer on weekends. The village itself wants 75 to 120 minutes if you are going to walk it properly and take the boat. The hop from the village up to Ngong Ping is 10 to 15 minutes in a blue taxi at about HK$80, or a longer wait for Bus 21, which still runs only every 30 to 60 minutes. Ngong Ping, the two monasteries and the Buddha plaza want 60 to 90 minutes. The cable car is 25 minutes in the air plus whatever is left of the queue. Then 45 to 60 minutes home on the MTR (Subway).
Add those up and you are at 8 hours without trying to be clever. On a Sunday or a public holiday you should think 9. I have never finished a proper Big Buddha and Tai O Fishing Village tour in less than 8 hours, and I have been doing this since 2011. If a listing promises both places in 5 hours on public transport, read it twice and book someone else..
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The Tai O Fishing Village on Lantau Island Hong Kong
The Tai O Fishing Village, without the postcard language
The Hong Kong Government likes to call the Tai O Fishing Village the Venice of the East. I have been to Venice. This is not Venice. It is a tidal settlement of pang uk stilt houses, built mainly by Tanka fishing families from the 19th century onward, sitting on an inlet on the west coast of Lantau. The name means large inlet. At its height the place held something in the region of 30,000 people. These days you are looking at about 2,000. Industry went. Two serious fires, including the one in 2000, took out whole stretches of timber houses. What remains is smaller, harder, and still lived in.
I have been going there since the 1970s. The lanes are still tight. The dried fish is still hanging. The temples are still used by people who live there, not only by people who have a ticket. Most of the jars of shrimp paste on the main street are factory-made in Mainland China. The real yards, and the old 1902 police station that is now the Tai O Heritage Hotel, sit off that main walk. I will only take you there if you really want to go. You need a boat to the hotel, and then you walk back into the village, which can take 45 minutes. That is a detour, not the default. Tell me before we start if that extra stretch is the one you want.
A boat from the main pier runs about every 15 to 20 minutes and costs in the region of HK$40 to HK$60 (about US$5 to US$7) a head. It is a good way to see the backs of the stilt houses and the tidal channels. It is a poor way to see Chinese white dolphins. Those boats nose into open water for 10 or 15 minutes and then turn around. I have seen the dolphins twice, perhaps 3 times, in all the years since 2011. I tell guests that before anyone pays. The longer dedicated dolphin trips that operate for 3 to 4 hours do better. The village hop does not, and most listings will not dwell on it.
If you walk the Tai O Fishing Village on your own it can feel small and slightly staged. With someone who has been going there for 50+ years it is a set of streets with a past, a fire, a trade, a hotel that used to lock people up, and a community that did not ask to become a stop on a tour coach loop. That is why I will not squash it into the last hour of a Buddha morning.
Food, if you want it, is your choice and not part of the fee. I still point people at Fook Moon Lam on Tai O Market Street. English menu, reasonable prices, no theatre. It is not Fook Lam Moon, the old dining room of the ultra rich, with branches in Wan Chai and Tsim Sha Tsui. The names are a shuffle of the same three words and a lot of visitors assume they are the same group. They are not. There are plenty of other restaurants in the village. I do not do food tours, and I do not pretend a slice of egg waffle is culture.
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The amazing Big Buddha on Lantau Island Hong Kong
The Big Buddha, the 268 steps, and the 2 monasteries
For me, the main event
The Big Buddha sits on the Ngong Ping plateau and faces north. The figure itself is 26.4m. With the lotus and the base you are at 34m. It was cast in 202 bronze pieces in Nanjing, 250 tonnes of metal, and opened to the public on 29th December 1993 after a project that had been talked about since the late 1970s. The right hand is the gesture of fearlessness. The left is the gesture of blessing. It was cleaned again in 2022. From the plaza the statue is enormous. You have not missed Hong Kong because you did not climb 268 steps.
This is where spiritual enlightenment bumps in reality
Those steps are steep, there is no lift and no escalator, and going up or down is a poor idea for some people. I have not climbed them since 2019. About 75% of my guests have no interest in the climb once they are standing on the plaza and looking up. Teenagers of 14 to 18 sometimes treat it as a challenge. Children younger than that generally want no part of it and if you have a stroller, well good luck with that. I leave the choice to you when we get there. I can usually tell, with guests my own age, who should stay on the flat ground. The views people think they are buying from the top are not the reason to come. The statue is the reason, and the statue is already in front of you.
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The 2 Po Lin Monasteries on Lantau Island Hong Kong
There are 2 Po Lin Monasteries, not one. The old house dates to 1906 and is still a working religious community. I stayed in the hostel there for a week in the summer of 1972 on a school trip and was not a fan of the bunks. The place has been refurbished since and the hostel has relocated. The newer Grand Hall of Ten Thousand Buddhas opened in 2014. Most coach tours photograph the courtyard of one and move on. We go to both.
The monastery vegetarian restaurant is not on my tour. The food is bland, it is not cheap, and it is how a lot of itineraries pad 45 minutes they have not earned. Ngong Ping Village, which you walk through to reach the cable car, was built in 2006 to open with the line. Shops, toilets, restaurants, a stage set. Useful. Not ancient. We walk through it. We do not pretend it is a heritage street.
Wild cattle still wander the plaza. They are part of the furniture. Fog sits on Ngong Ping more often than the brochures admit. At that height the cloud is not a failure of the tour. Fog gives you a presence. The statue does not shrink because you cannot see the airport.
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The awesome NP 360 Cable Car on Lantau Island Hong Kong
The cable car, one way, and why the other direction is a long queue
Ngong Ping 360 opened in 2006. The line runs 5.7km between Tung Chung and Ngong Ping and the ride itself takes about 25 minutes. Official walk-up prices as I write this sit at about HK$205 (about US$26) for a standard cabin one way and HK$240 (about US$31) for a crystal cabin one way. Those figures move, and I am not a ticket office. The ticket is not included in my fee. We buy it together at Ngong Ping for the ride down. Please do not buy a ticket online in advance. It is too easy to purchase the wrong direction, or a round trip we are not going to use. We go down. We do not come up on the cable car. We do not do both ways.
Morning queues at Tung Chung are the tax you pay for doing the island the postcard way. Late afternoon at Ngong Ping is usually a walk-on. A Crystal Cabin is worth it if you want the glass floor. Standard is fine if you do not. The view is the airport, the sea, the country park and, on a clear run, the Big Buddha appearing over the last high ground of trees. On a foggy day it is grey and strange and still worth the fare.
I would also ask you to make sure you are ok with heights and being in an enclosed space and motion issues can be a real problem, there is no plan b or exit strategy when you start moving, I have had people fall apart after just a few minutes.
The cable car closes for maintenance 2 or 3 times a year, from a few days to a few weeks. I always check. When it does, we use the bus or a taxi to go down. The tour does not collapse because the cable car is being serviced.
Transport on an island that does not want every car
Lantau keeps the closed roads for a reason. The plateau and the village would not survive a free-for-all of private cars. That is why the permit exists, why there are only 75 blue taxis, and why most so-called private Lantau tours still put you on a public bus for part of the tour and hope you do not notice.
I cover public transport for guests. The full list of what sits inside the fee and what does not lives on the FAQ page and on Prices | Book Now. In short, the Ngong Ping 360 cable car is extra. Blue Lantau taxis are extra. A blue taxi from the Tai O Fishing Village up to Ngong Ping is usually about HK$80. A longer blue taxi run elsewhere on the island can be HK$250 to HK$300. Meals, drinks and souvenirs are yours. There is no entry fee for the Buddha, the monasteries or the village, whatever a listing has told you.
Buses are air conditioned. The MTR (Subway) is air conditioned. On a July afternoon that is not a small mercy. Sitting in the back of a permitted car teaches you the skyline of the island. Riding the bus with the people who live on it teaches you how the island actually moves.
Who this tour is for, and who should book the 4 hour version instead
Book the 8 hour tour if you want both the Biddha and the Tai O Fishing Village, you can walk at a steady grown-up pace with rests, and you have a full day that does not end at a gangway. Couples, 2 couples, families with children who can manage buses and heat, return visitors who did the island badly the first time, and seniors who want conversation more than a checklist. I am over 60. A lot of my guests are too. That is not a small thing on a hot and humid island with steps.
Book the 4 hour Big Buddha Special instead if you have already seen the village, you have no interest in it, you are on a tight cruise window that only really works with a 9am start and no extra coast road, or the extra walking and the extra hours are more than the day can take. That page is separate and I mean it to stay separate.
Do not book either version if you want a private car with a permit, a wheelchair ramp, a food crawl, Hong Kong Disneyland, or a hike over Lantau Peak. I will send you to people whose work is great.
Cruise passengers should be honest with me about all-aboard. A proper Lantau Island tour is a poor add-on to a city morning and a poor squeeze into a short shore window. If the ship hours are tight I would rather you take a city tour you can finish than an island tour you have to abandon at the Buddha plaza.
What the online listings keep getting wrong
A few facts that still refuse to die.
There is no admission fee for the Big Buddha, the Po Lin Monasteries or the Tai O Fishing Village.
"Venice of the East" is marketing. Walk the lanes and decide for yourself.
Pink dolphins are not a standard feature of a 20 minute village boat. Treat any listing that puts a dolphin in the hero image as a listing that is being economical with the truth when it comes to assessing your chances of seeing one.
Ngong Ping Village is from 2006. It opened with the cable car.
There are 2 monasteries, the best one is behind the original
The 268 steps are not compulsory and there are not 400 of them.
A public bus is not a private coach and many large groups can mean people are actually standing on the public bus, not a good idea
Hong Kong Disneyland is on Lantau Island. It is still a huge distance from the Big Buddha and the Tai O Fishing Village. It is not part of this tour.
Hong Kong International Airport is on Lantau Island. The statue and the village are not next door to it.
Fast track and "admission included" on an OTA (such as Viator) page often means a cable car ticket, plus language that implies tickets that do not exist.
Combining Victoria Peak with the full 8 hour Lantau tour, Big Buddha plus the Tai O Fishing Village, is too much for one outing. I do not sell that stack. I do combine Victoria Peak with the 4 hour Big Buddha Special. That pairing is on the price list and it works.
I wrote a separate post about companies that sell this island on price and then wait for the 5-star review at the meeting point. Read the small print twice. If the figure is too good to be true, something you thought was included is sitting on a second line.
Pace, heat, fog and the honest version of comfort
Lantau in May to September is heat, humidity, sudden rain and the occasional typhoon signal. That is the private-tour low season in Hong Kong for a reason. We start in the morning. We sit down. We drink water. We do not march through horizontal rain because the original plan said so. If the cable car is stopped by wind we take the bus. If cloud has sat on the plateau we still go to the statue, because the statue does not close for weather the way a viewing platform does.
Shoes with a grip, not new city leather. A light layer for the cable car air-conditioning. Tell me before we start if a joint complains after 20 minutes, if steps are a problem, or if someone in the group will need more sitting than walking. I do not run wheelchair tours. I do not have a private car with a ramp. I do adapt the walking for older guests, and I split a group at the steps so nobody is made to perform fitness they do not have.
Prices, cash on the day, no deposit in advance needed
I am not the cheapest tour company in Hong Kong and I have never been. The only valid and up-to-date price list is the one on the Prices | Book Now page. Do not use a grid copied from an old blog post.
The 8 hour full-day figures on that page, still current as I write this, are:
1 person US$690 (about HK$5,382)
2 people US$760 (about HK$5,928)
3 people US$830 (about HK$6,474)
4 people US$900 (about HK$7,020)
Extra adults after that follow the same step as the rest of the list. Children 17 and under, accompanying a paying adult, are free. A lot of Hong Kong companies treat anyone over 11 as an adult. Read their small print.
Pay in cash on the day, US$ or HK$. There is no deposit. The cable car, blue taxis, meals and souvenirs sit outside the fee. For the day itself, HK$400 to HK$500 cash per adult is a sensible float for tickets and lunch.
What to write when you contact me
You can Keep it short if you wish. Name, date, number of people, ages if there are children, hotel or ship, how you walk, whether anyone has already been to the Tai O Fishing Village, and whether you want the 8 hour island tour or the 4 hour Buddha Special. If you are coming off a ship, give me the all-aboard time.
WhatsApp, email or the form on Prices | Book Now. I do not do phone calls. Last-minute is often possible with a day's notice. I would rather you wrote the walking sentence honestly than surprise me at the bus stop.
What I will not pretend
I will not pretend the Tai O Fishing Village is Venice.
I will not pretend a 20 minute boat ride is a guaranteed dolphin sighting
I will not pretend I hold a Lantau closed-road permit.
I will not pretend the 268 steps are a must.
I will not pretend Ngong Ping Village is old, it is a modern replica
I will not pretend a 5 hour public-transport listing has room for both places.
I will not pretend Hong Kong Disneyland is part of this tour.
I will not pretend the airport is next door to the statue.
I will not pretend I am fluent in Cantonese after 50+ years. I am not, and I have never sold the tour on that claim.
I will not pretend this is a cheap morning out. It is an 8 hour private tour with one guide who has been doing this island since 2011, and the fee looks like it.
Why book this for 2027 rather than hope the island explains itself
You can do Lantau Island on your own. Thousands of people do it every week. You can also buy a seat on a coach and be back at a hotel with a set of photographs that look exactly like everyone else's photographs.
What you cannot buy on a listing is the order of the tour, the decision to skip a queue, the sentence at the shrimp paste yard, the second monastery, the honest warning about the boat, the choice at the bottom of the steps, and a guide who has been on those lanes since the 1970s and still likes going. That is the product. The island is the setting.
If that is the tour you want, write to me.
Book the tour
Prices, the live calendar and the form sit on the Prices | Book Now page. Tour group size 1 to 6 people only. Customised private tours and experiences in Hong Kong. I have lived here 50+ years. The island has not become simpler. The copy about it has. This page is my attempt to put the long version back.
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I do not do Food Tours in Hong Kong but I know people that do!
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The information above can be shown to restaurant managers in Hong Kong if you are intolerant to gluten and nuts,
I do not do food tours as mentioned above, I have very specific reasons and part of it is that I do not speak Cantonese or write Chinese, I am from Yorkshire in England and I lack the language gene and it is not through lack of trying and yes a lot of restaurants do not have English menu’s or staff who speak conversational English.
.. and yet I have eaten at close to 1,400 restaurants in Hong Kong since January 2nd 1972, my wife was born in Hong Kong and we have been together over 40 years and her first language is Cantonese and a lot of her family are Chinese or half Chinese so I have never had much of an issue!
This does not translate to doing food tours though, yes, I could do them, no problem there but they would never ever be as good as the food tours done by my friends (see the 3 links above) most of their awesome guides are locally born Hong Kong Chinese and obviously food culture is part of their DNA, it is impossible for me to compete with that!
So please feel free to contact them for food tours
I do not do Hiking Tours in Hong Kong but I know someone that does!
I do not do Hiking Tours, never have and never will even though I used to go Hiking a lot when I was a lot younger, The Hong Kong Government is promoting hiking tours so I urge you to contact my friend Sabrina at Hong Kong Trails and Tours, she is a long time Hong Kong resident and and a very experienced hiker with close to 700 Hikes in 15+ years under her belt, please click on the link below
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