Good_Will

We would be very grateful to receive some recommendations for the best sunset dinner or cocktail cruise around Hong Kong island.

Many years ago the then Hong Kong Hilton had a junk that took about 30+ guests on sunset dinner cruises.

It would be great to find something similar today.

We are not interested in large tourist boats with big dinner buffets.

Any suggestions ?

Thank you

rkkwan

I know what you are talking about, but you can't find these anymore, except on pricey private yatches, I believe. First, for small boats, the water around HK Island is just too choppy to have a proper meal - due to all the high speed ferries around and the narrowing of the harbor.

It's more popular now to just take a ferry to Yung Shue Wan on Lamma Island and have a good (but not cheap) seafood dinner and take ferry back. You still get the 'cruise' and the food is prepared better and you can eat more comfortably. All for less.

And if you eat at one of the Rainbow restaurants there, you can even ride their own ferry to/from for free.

Good_Will

Thank you rkkwan, but we have already done that and it is not like taking a sunset cruise on a large junk around the Island.

Maybe there is a a junk ride we can take from Central around to Aberdeen for dinner ?

rkkwan

I can't say for sure they don't exist, but these days you really don't see many yatches for hire inside Victoria Harbour at all, and none of those Chinese-style junks.

Fuel and labor cost are so high that such trips just aren't popular. Unless you hire your own yatch to do such trip. Or take a ferry to Lamma and then take a kaito service over to Aberdeen.

Good_Will

That is so sad.

All that nostagia and romance that was once Hong Kong.seems to have gone.

I need to find a solution and if I do then I will report back here.

rkkwan

Things change fast in Hong Kong, so it's not easy to be nostalgic in this place. But some things stay more or the less the same, and the romance is still there - as you as you get out of the way of the Chinese tourists/shoppers. For example, The Peak is still very quiet and nice, once you get yourself a few dozen meters/yards away from the Peak Tram Terminal.

The beach at Shek O is still nice and more or less the same as 30 years ago. So is the fishing village of Tai O on Lantau. Just a couple of examples.

Good_Will

We will definately go to Shek O to both lay on the sand and swim. Hopefully still safe on that side of the Island.

We will also walk down to Aberdeen via the reservoirs from the Peak and head off to the Stanley Markets.

For me there is nothing much to shop for now in Hong Kong, other than good espresso coffee and some fresh(er) milk

Just need to find that boat cruise

Thank you rkkwan

Lomoody

I found that there are some junk boats operate for tourists these few years, which I saw them in Stanley, Victoria Habour (in Tsim Sha Tsui Side).

They are the cocktail cruise, see if it is the one you want:
http://www.aqua.com.hk/#/eng/global/...uaLuna/concept

Lomoody

Reading this post, I am feeling a bit sad about HK nowadays.

Agree with rkkwan, HK changed so fast, but being a HK citizen, I don't wanna see such phenomenon.

It is hard to find a nice place to go in weekend, the tourist sights, shopping mall are overwhelmed by the chinese. And the city is built by the boring concrete blocks, we can only see a line of sky.And so I would do the same things as Good_Will, go for some offbeat local places.

HK is losing its own characteristic by a series of rapid development. Besides the places recommended by rkkwan, Sheung Wan is one of the places still own its character. But I bet it will be losing soon

Good_Will

Thank you so much Lomoody.

We will definately take a sail on the Aqua Luna next week at sunset with cocktails.

We will also stay in a totally different location at the Marriott Courtyard near Sheung Wan. Last visits in the 90's and 2004 were to the Conrad and Island Shangri-La.

There is very little to shop for in Hong Kong now and so we will do a lot of walking in the hills and on the other side of the Island. Shopping will probably be only Stanley Market and maybe a few shops like the gift shop at the Mandarin Oriental and Fila.

Instead of walking back through Central we will walk up the hills and through Kennedy Town and hop on and off transpost with our Octopus cards.

I am trying to relive the great days in the 1970-80's when I stayed at the Hong Kong Hilton.

Thanks again to all for advice received here.