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How US$11 can get you a day trip for 2 plus lunch in pricey Hong Kong

Low-budget tours in Hong Kong are becoming increasingly popular among mainland Chinese visitors. The Post goes along for the ride

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Experiencing a full-day tour around Hong Kong for only US$6
Lo Hoi-ying

In Hong Kong, one of the world’s most expensive cities, 79 yuan (US$11) will get you a set lunch for one. But, to the surprise of many, it will buy a day tour for two people, with lunch and a visit to several attractions thrown in.

With such budget tours becoming increasingly popular among mainland Chinese visitors, especially those from the nearby cities of Shenzhen, Zhuhai and Guangzhou, the Post joined one on a weekday to see how they operated.

At 8.30am, a coach packed with about 60 tourists, who had assembled at the Heung Yuen Wai border crossing between Shenzhen and Hong Kong, departs for Wong Tai Sin Temple before heading to the West Kowloon Cultural District’s Art Park and the area outside the Hong Kong Palace Museum.
Wong Tai Sin Temple is the first stop on the tour for Post reporter Lo Hoi-ying. Photo: Sophie Li
Wong Tai Sin Temple is the first stop on the tour for Post reporter Lo Hoi-ying. Photo: Sophie Li

Lunch is a bento box with rice, soy-braised chicken and mushrooms, pork ribs and zucchini, and stir-fried cabbage, with unlimited refills for rice, at a canteen in the basement of Star House in Tsim Sha Tsui.

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