Getting there and around
One airport, one railway, everywhere.
Hong Kong is compact and connected like nowhere else: a single island airport, the Airport Express, an MTR network that reaches every event district, high-speed trains to the mainland, and ferries to Macau and the outlying islands. Get the gateways straight and the whole calendar opens up.
Arriving
Hong Kong International Airport (HKG) sits on reclaimed land off Lantau Island at Chek Lap Kok, and almost every visitor arrives through it. The Airport Express runs to Kowloon and Hong Kong stations in about 24 minutes, city buses cover every district more slowly and cheaply, and taxis queue outside arrivals. AsiaWorld-Expo, the arena and exhibition halls, is one stop from the airport on the same line. The land borders matter too: the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge port is beside the airport, and the high-speed rail terminus at West Kowloon crosses to Shenzhen in under 20 minutes and Guangzhou in about an hour.
Getting around the city
The MTR is the system everything hangs off: ten urban lines plus the Airport Express and the Disneyland Resort line, with stations at or near every major venue on this calendar, from Kai Tak and the Coliseum (Hung Hom) to the convention centre (Exhibition Centre and Wan Chai) and Ocean Park. An Octopus card or a contactless bank card works at every gate. Above ground, the trams still run the length of Hong Kong Island's north shore for a flat fare, the Star Ferry crosses the harbour between Tsim Sha Tsui and Central and Wan Chai, and red taxis fill the gaps the rails leave.
Outlying islands and Macau
Ferries from the Central piers serve Lamma, Cheung Chau, Peng Chau and Lantau's Mui Wo through the day, with the last sailing setting the end of any island evening; Discovery Bay and Ma Wan run their own ferries and buses. Macau is an hour by fast ferry from Sheung Wan or Tsim Sha Tsui, or by coach over the bridge from the airport port: the sister calendar at Macau What's On covers what is on when you get there.
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The luggage trick
The Airport Express stations at Kowloon and Hong Kong offer in-town check-in for many airlines when it is running, and the left-luggage offices at the airport and the major malls hold bags by the day. Travelling light between a morning exhibition and an evening concert, with the suitcase following by rail, is how the city does long days.