Use Public Bus to go to City/Hotel if You’re Budget Conscious
For full detail of retailer and full description of the sim card, visit CSL page here.Īlternatively, you can pre-order HK tourist sim card, choose either 8-day unlimited 3G or 5-day 1.5GB 4G for only HKD 60 and pick it up from the airport. I purchased the card from a phone shop (called 1010) at the arrival hall. Other than 1010, you can also purchase this from other retailers such as 7-11, Circle K, CSL, HK Tourism Board, etc. How cool is that? I didn’t finish my mobile data allowance and international credits during my 6 days stay in HK. It came with 5GB mobile data, HKD 48 credit for international calls and texts, unlimited local calls and unlimited csl wifi. Personally, I purchased 8-day pass sim card for HKD 118. And information about HK is plentiful on the internet. You also can search operating hours of attractions, operating hours of public transport, recommended restaurants or food without having to refer to pages of papers that you have printed from your home, or pages from travel guide books.
Imagine you are lost in translation somewhere in HK, you can simply rely on Google Maps to tell you how to get from a point to another. I highly recommend buying tourist sim card because I think that internet is essential for traveling in HK. Like many major airports in the world, HK airport has strong and free wifi that you can make use of. This slip must be retained during the stay in HK. The lines move quite fast as there is no more stamping of passport, instead they give a small paper called landing slip, indicating the validity of visitor’s stay.
Make sure you have filled up the necessary immigration forms before lining up at the immigration counters. Therefore, based on my visit to HK in May 2016, I put up 7 essential guides to make your first day smooth. If you are a first timer arriving in Hong Kong at the Hong Kong International Airport, and you haven’t done any research prior to arriving, it could be daunting.