treasure4two Posted August 18, 2013 #1 Share Posted August 18, 2013 Is Oceania going into this new Terminal in Hong Kong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted August 18, 2013 #2 Share Posted August 18, 2013 Hope not. Was there a few years ago and Nautica docked at the Ocean Terminal Mall. Walked off the ship into the mall and down the stairs and we were right in downtown. Great place to dock. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treasure4two Posted August 18, 2013 Author #3 Share Posted August 18, 2013 Hope not. Was there a few years ago and Nautica docked at the Ocean Terminal Mall. Walked off the ship into the mall and down the stairs and we were right in downtown. Great place to dock. :) Sounds good for arriving there but we are leaving from there and staying in Kowloon at Salisbury YMCA-anyone know the distances or which one is closer to Kowloon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted August 18, 2013 #4 Share Posted August 18, 2013 Sounds good for arriving there but we are leaving from there and staying in Kowloon at Salisbury YMCA-anyone know the distances or which one is closer to Kowloon? We overnited there. Ocean terminal mall is in Kowloon, but you probably could not begin or end a cruise there. No way to move luggage on or off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rallydave Posted August 18, 2013 #5 Share Posted August 18, 2013 Sounds good for arriving there but we are leaving from there and staying in Kowloon at Salisbury YMCA-anyone know the distances or which one is closer to Kowloon? Was with people getting off our ship while we were docked at the Ocean Terminal and believe they walked to the Y with their bags. Walked by the Y one day and it's about 3 short blocks after you get out of the Terminal Mall. Perhaps 5 minutes. Take a look at this link for the YMCA and you will see the terminal on the left of the map. https://www.google.com/search?q=salisbury+ymca+hong+kong&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a The new terminal is next to the old Hong Kong airport and probably several miles away and who knows how long by cab. The Ocean Terminal is next to the Star Ferry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted August 18, 2013 #6 Share Posted August 18, 2013 Was with people getting off our ship while we were docked at the Ocean Terminal and believe they walked to the Y with their bags. Walked by the Y one day and it's about 3 short blocks after you get out of the Terminal Mall. Perhaps 5 minutes. Take a look at this link for the YMCA and you will see the terminal on the left of the map. https://www.google.com/search?q=salisbury+ymca+hong+kong&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a The new terminal is next to the old Hong Kong airport and probably several miles away and who knows how long by cab. The Ocean Terminal is next to the Star Ferry. All well and good for a few people, but I do not think you could move a whole shipload of people off and on from there. You are up on the second or third floor and walk thru doors to the store area. Then down to the street. Good luck:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rallydave Posted August 18, 2013 #7 Share Posted August 18, 2013 All well and good for a few people, but I do not think you could move a whole shipload of people off and on from there. You are up on the second or third floor and walk thru doors to the store area. Then down to the street. Good luck:) We didn't move the whole ship on and off but, about 500 people disembarked and embarked. Don't have to go thru the store area, the busses drive to the end of the pier on the street level and they have the facilities there to move the people off and on with buses and taxis close at hand. Just down one flight of stairs or elevator and at the buses. Talking about walking from the Y, forgot that it is almost as far walking thru the stores as it is from the Y to the entrance to the mall. Pretty sure that the Ocean Terminal has been the only docking area in Hong Kong until the airport terminal opened this year just a couple of months ago. We were there in February this year and wouldn't want to overnight or embark/disembark anywhere except the Ocean Terminal. Walking distance to almost anyplace and transportation within a short walk to anyplace in Hong Kong and many attractions within a few blocks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deadzone1003 Posted August 18, 2013 #8 Share Posted August 18, 2013 Not for awhile. Kai Tak Cruise Terminal don't have any Oceania ships sheduled. So, it is probably Ocean Terminal by default. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xrvlcruiser Posted August 18, 2013 #9 Share Posted August 18, 2013 http://www.oceanterminal.com.hk/cruise-schedule.php Here is the Ocean Terminal web site . . . . . shows all the ships docking for several years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted August 19, 2013 #10 Share Posted August 19, 2013 Good to hear. The Ocean Terminal was probably the best place to overnight because it was so close to everything. Could walk to most places including the Star Ferry :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samsonmo Posted August 19, 2013 #11 Share Posted August 19, 2013 Good to hear. The Ocean Terminal was probably the best place to overnight because it was so close to everything. Could walk to most places including the Star Ferry :) we sailed Nautica from Hong Kong to Athens2010. Although initially ship would dock at Ocean terminal it docked on Hong Kong side. The new terminal at the old Kai Tak airport has opened up recently. Taxi to YMCA depending on traffic could take between 15 to 30 minutes. Harbour City is a 5 minute walk to the YMCA. peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travelcat2 Posted August 19, 2013 #12 Share Posted August 19, 2013 It is interesting that Regent is using the new terminal and Oceania is not. Perhaps when the Riviera or Marina dock in Hong Kong they will go to the new terminal. According to news reports, Kai Tak Cruise Terminal had a "soft opening" so there are things that may not be complete. As of June, there were long queues for a taxi as they did not want to make the "trek into town". They have a applied for a shuttle bus from the terminal. We will be docked in Hong Kong overnight in March and are hopeful that it will be easy to get into town. Actually, I'd love to see a passenger ferry at the Kai Tak! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tanny18 Posted August 19, 2013 #13 Share Posted August 19, 2013 we sailed Nautica from Hong Kong to Athens2010. Although initially ship would dock at Ocean terminal it docked on Hong Kong side. The new terminal at the old Kai Tak airport has opened up recently. Taxi to YMCA depending on traffic could take between 15 to 30 minutes. Harbour City is a 5 minute walk to the YMCA. peter Last April the taxi ride from the ship on the Kowloon side to the "Y" was no more than 10 minutes. If you're walking off the ship for a day in Hong Kong, it takes about 15 minutes to get to the ferry terminal (thru the mall and up and down escalators. ) But you wouldn't want to take the walk from the YMCA to the ship with luggage thru the mallo! The Y is a very easy few minute walk to the ferry. Arlene;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoou Posted August 20, 2013 #14 Share Posted August 20, 2013 If Oceania actually docks at Ocean Terminal, you are literally on the door step of Ocean Terminal-Ocean Centre- Harbor City Malls. It is all linked up and you can spend a whole day just checking out the stores. Once you get out to the street side you will be on Canton Road, which is full of designer shops it's like the whole of Rodeo drive on one street. The other side to Canton Road is the Star Ferry concourse, where you can take the ferry over to Hong Kong Island. It is also right next to the terminal where the ship docks. If you want to walk, and have very little luggage, you just follow the road from Star ferry onwards ( there is only one direction to go) and the YMCA on Salisbury road is literally 10 minutes away, may 20 if you walk slow, I can do it in 5. It's across the road from the Space Museum which is this white dome shaped thing. Hence taking a taxi is kind of a waste, but if you have luggage you don't have much of a choice, even then the meter should not jump more than once or twice. It starts at HK$20 ( US$2.5) so even given the one way system or whatever and the HK$5 per piece of luggage in the car boot, it should not cost you more than HK$50 to get 3 minutes by taxi up the road! Now, if you are docked at Kai Tak, that's a completely separate issue. It is miles away from the central business areas and shops of Tsim Sha Tsui where this Ocean Terminal is situated. It will take at least 30 minutes by taxi to get to the main shopping areas of Tsim Sha Tsui, Mongkok, probably 1 hour by the time you figure in the traffic. You can asked to be dropped off at a subway stop and take that over the harbour to Causeway Bay or Admiralty or Central districts that will take about 20-30 minutes on the subway depending on rush hours. Kai Tak is a very local area called Kowloon City. There is one hotel there called Regal Kowloon. Across the (many) roads from Kai Tak is actually the old Kowloon City area with lots of little local shops, wet market and lots of Thai Food restaurants! I hope this helps in people's planning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kuldalai Posted August 20, 2013 #15 Share Posted August 20, 2013 Ocean Terminal in Kowloon has been operating as a cruise boat terminal for years and able to handle boarding & alighting with two ships in port at the same time. The cruise terminal boardings and disembarkations are handled both at wharf level and via the Upper most level of the shopping mall , and in typical Hong Kong fashion very efficiently too . The new cruise terminal at Kai Tak is additional to Ocean Terminal to provide initially two extra cruise boat berths, and ultimately four . Kai Tak is a 15 minute taxi ride from Kowloon. Taxis in Hong Kong are plentiful and cheap . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treasure4two Posted August 20, 2013 Author #16 Share Posted August 20, 2013 Thanks everyone!! Very helpful!:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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