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Chairs were $9 each... beach bar has food and drinks available. Bathroom facilities and showers available!

Taxis were $11 per person each way! Not difficult to get at Sapphire

At secret harbor today... clean, pretty... dive shop open, hotel open but pretty empty beach! Gorgeous. Just a little hard to get taxi back to ship so arrange for pick up! Otherwise dont heaitate to go!

At Sapphire Beach today! It is nicely cleaned up... beach bar, dive shop, bathrooms all open. Chair rentals all available. Less shade then before as trees were damagedbut still some! The trees are slowly recovering. It’s safe and lovely...workers welcoming and friendly! Dont heaitate to come!

Try coral breeze tour.. No worry about ferry time and gaurAntee back to ship! Nice people

Try coral breeze caye caulker snorkel... It was great!

You take the subway directly from Kawloon (so if you are not on that side you need to take the Star Ferry over to that side) to the Lantau Island stop (a 30 minute ride) where you get off the subway and cross a small outdoor plaza to pick up the cable car. Everything in Hong Kong public transportation is very EASY and well marked. The only key is that sometimes you need exact change but NOT on the subway. You see signs which are well marked in English. After buying your ticket for the cable car (you need to decide one way or round trip...we did round trip....but you CAN take a ferry back instead which brings you to the side which is "Central"....you might want to look into that) and then take the cable car which brings you to a little village near the Budha statue. In the village there are shops and other options of ways to spend your money. There are movies to watch, exhibits to visit, a tea shop etc. Otherwise, you walk thru the village and stroll a bit towards the budha which is very obvious. Then you must buy a ticket at the bottom of MANY steps to climb to the Budha. The ticket includes entrance into the inside of the Budha which has a small museum (I didn't think this was a must see) and your option of either a snack or the veggie lunch which is served at the monestary below. I highly recommend the lunch. It was amazing! After climbing the steps to the Budha, we then visited the monestary for lunch, went to the tea house, didn't do much shopping but headed back via cable car and subway. We did all of this between about 8:30 and 2:30. It was a wonderful day and quite easy to do on your own. Pat

Just returned from this exact trip. Started out on about 8:3o am and returned by 2p.m after a wonderful day. The subway takes about 30 minutes. This takes you directly to the cable car which is about a half hour ride. Then it is an nice short easy walk to BUdha and most importantly have the vegitarian lunch at the monestary. It was great and a wonderful nice day. Pat