Some tips on traveling to Hong Kong and Macau with parents - Macau

Compared to Hong Kong, Macau is a bit lackluster, but the main goal of Traveling with parents is to check out the famous sights and focus on visiting one. If a Macau itinerary is not a leisure vacation, one day is basically enough, and parents will not be particularly interested in CityWalk.
  
If you go from Hong Kong to Macau, it is best to take the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge. Many parents are particularly interested in this kind of national confidence. The time is also relatively fast. There are two ways to Travel from Hong Kong, Zhuhai and Macao. One is a through train. The official name is cross-border bus. You can get on the bus in the city. After arriving at the port, I went through customs and then changed trains. When I arrived in Macau, I also went directly to some hotels in the city. The main stops were in Causeway Bay, Mong Kok and other places. Because I was too lazy to check the specific time and method of boarding, I chose the second option. , just go to the port by yourself and buy a Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao shuttle bus.
  
The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Travel Inspection Building in Hong Kong is right next to the airport. Basically, you can take the car from the airport into the city. I took the A11 from Causeway Bay to Wan Chai. You can check the departure time in advance on Google Maps. It’s not special. Accurate, but can be used as a reference. Get off the bus and enter the Passenger Inspection Building to purchase tickets, or you can purchase tickets on the public account "Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Shuttle Bus", the fare is 58RMB, and the same is over 65 years old There are discounted fares. If you buy it on the spot, the fare is 65 Hong Kong dollars. If it is busy during the day, the train will depart in 5 minutes. It operates 24 hours a day and is 70 Hong Kong dollars at night.
The shuttle bus is double-decker. I sat in the first row upstairs in the morning on the way out. The parents had a good experience. They took photos and videos like crazy and expressed their feelings about the greatness of the motherland. But the water below is really yellow, comparable to that in Shanghai. A section of the bridge is still underground, passing through a section of undersea tunnel, and it takes less than 60 minutes to arrive at Macau and Zhuhai. Depending on the ticket purchased, Macau on the left and Zhuhai on the right exit at different immigration points.
  


There are several ways to go to the city after self-service immigration in Macau, because my itinerary plan is from Macau's Fisherman's Wharf , Ruins of St. Paul's to the Grand Lisboa Hotel, so prepare to take a free shuttle bus from the casino for free, which is also known as the fortune bus that goes to various casinos. P.S. All casinos in Macau have now been renamed casinos, a new concept of socialist harmony.
  
Exit from the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Building in Macau, Follow the signs to the Casino Bus in Area C (Basically just keep walking forward towards the signs) , the casino bus has two directions, one is to the main island transfer station, and the other is to the Taipa transfer station. You need to confirm where your destination is first. I want to go to the main island, so I go to the Outer Harbor Ferry Terminal to transfer. take. The fortune bus is also a hop-on-and-go. The distance is not far, but it is a bit congested. If you find it troublesome to transfer, you can take the bus directly to your destination.
  
As the saying goes, the whole of Macau is not as big as Pudong Airport, so if you are not in a hurry in Macau, you can walk to most places in Macau. This is why everyone goes crazy in Macau. The place where you get off the bus at the Outer Harbor Ferry Terminal is actually a casino. There are casinos all over Macau. My friends also asked if they could make money like this. After I went to the casino to play, I immediately knew if it would work...

From the Outer Harbor Ferry Terminal, you can walk to the first attraction, Fisherman's Wharf, which is actually a theme park and shopping mall on the old Hong Kong and Macau Wharf , also invested by Gambling King, has multiple themes, such as Chinatown, Aladdin theme, European coast, etc. We just visited the ancient Roman performance venue for a while. I have to say that this place is very suitable for the kind of Little Red Book. The film clocked in, and I clicked it for my mother.
  


For meals, Macau specialties include pork chop buns and egg tarts. Others are common tea restaurants in Hong Kong and Macau. This time we ate at Taoxiangju Restaurant, which tasted very good. My mother also likes it very much, but the dishes ordered are a bit too much, which is quite wasteful, and it also made me think about it.
  
From Taoxiangju, follow the navigation road and pass by Our Lady of the Sea Observation Tower and Guia Lighthouse to the Fortress Park, and the road is far away You can see the Grand Lisboa, this building is so iconic. It’s strange. The Google Map in Macau is offset all the way, but Amap is very useful. I don’t know if it’s because of interference in sensitive areas. of. The city of Macau is also on hills, which is very similar to Lisbon (also like Chongqing, or Qingdao?), and the climb is exhausting.
  
Going down from the Fortress is the Ruins of St. Paul's. This area is a World Cultural Heritage along with the old town of Macau. The fort here used to be mainly used to guard against pirates, but later it became a military zone. There is also the Macau Museum on the top of the mountain, but I didn’t go in due to time constraints. The top of Fortress Hill overlooks the entire city of Macau. Some places look very much like the slums of Chongqing. It is said that you can also see part of Zhuhai scenery. I didn’t know which direction it was, so I skipped it. The most eye-catching thing seen from the mountain is the Grand Lisboa Hotel of Gambling King, and it is in the direction of the cannon. It is a bit like bombarding the Grand Lisboa. This time I took a closer look at the Grand Lisboa building and suddenly I got it. Why is it called Putin, because the English name of that hotel is Lisboa!
  


The Ruins of St. Paul's is so crowded that you can doubt your life, including the streets below.There are also the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary, You can visit the Macau Cathedral, and you can reach the Grand Lisboa Hotel in a short stroll.


The Grand Lisboa Hotel has a fortune car that goes directly to the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Building. You have to go into the hotel and collect it at the service desk in B1. Please note, The Fortune Car may be full, so if you arrive, you can go and get your tickets first. We went there after playing in the casino, but today the car was full.
  
You need to go through security when entering the casino, and you are not allowed to use mobile phones when playing at various tables. The service staff at the Grand Lisboa all wear uniforms similar to military uniforms, and there is no such thing as sexy card dealing hahaha.
  
In the hotel, you don’t need to exchange chips. You can directly give Hong Kong dollars and exchange them at each counter. You should go to the exchange window to exchange RMB, and you cannot exchange it directly at the counter. . It’s also nice that the legal currency in the casino is Hong Kong dollars rather than Australian dollars. Now the minimum chip should be 100 Hong Kong dollars. Many tables have a minimum bet of 500 or 200, so pay attention. It is really exciting to watch several people lose all their 1,000 chips in a few seconds, and on the baccarat table, you can see the gamblers in the movie turning over and over and carefully opening the cards, including The surrounding spectators will also cheer and shout "Blow! Blow!" Other main games include blackjack, roulette, etc. There are too many to make it clear. The slot machines alone have a huge area. Don't rush to place your bets in the casino. Look at how people at the tables around you are playing. It's important to find "the table that's winning."
  


My mother hates gambling. I didn't even dare to change my chips this time. When I walked in, I was told, "Why do you come to a place like this when you're full..." My friend won 200 Hong Kong dollars, so we hurried away. Take a bus from Grand Lisboa directly to the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Immigration Building. The ticket is 6 Australian dollars. You cannot use Alipay and WeChat, but you can use the Shanghai Bus Card (???), which is really not possible. You can also give RMB directly. If you give 5 Hong Kong dollars + 20 RMB, you can get on the bus smoothly. Although the distance is not far, the bus is really very congested. It takes more than 40 minutes to take the bus to a place as big as Pudong Airport, which is outrageous.
  
On the return Trip, you can also buy tickets directly at the border inspection building, which is exactly the same process as coming here. The one-day trip to Macau ended without any hiccups.