Today, we headed to Macau by boat. After a light breakfast that V bought the night before, we checked out of the hotel (leaving our big suitcase there as we’d be back two days later), and took a taxi straight to the Ferry Terminal at Kowloon.
We thought we’d miss the boat as the next departure was in 15 minutes' time but the ferry ticket seller assured us that we would be able to make it in time. So we quickly cleared customs and walked quickly to the pier.
This was one of the few shots we were able to snap before we started to feel the effect of the sea...
Viv and I are ‘landlubbers’. We felt sea-sick during the first 15 mins of our hour-long boat trip because of the waves and heavy sea traffic. The bobbing of the boat caused our stomach to be in our throats and hearts in our stomachs. Thankfully, we didn't need this:
The ferry seats are allocated but as it was a weekday and lunch time, we could sit anywhere (as we found out when a group of HK men took our allocated seats).
When we arrived at Macau, the immigration queues were long! People were literally running towards the shortest queue! It took us over an hour to exit the Macau Ferry Terminal.
At the arrival hall, we found the hotel booth that we were going to stay during our trip - The Grand Emperor. Unfortunately, there was no one there so we decided to take a cab to the hotel ourselves. There were lots of taxi touts, so just be careful. Head straight to the official taxi queue instead. It took us only 10 mins to get to our hotel and the trip didn’t cost that much, maybe HKD20? (Yes they accept HKD in Macau; in fact we have never seen MOP other than lose change in coins).
As our non-smoking room was still not ready when we checked into the hotel at 2pm, we left our bags with the porter and made a beeline (via taxi) to the restaurant that Viv wanted to go (we had been there before and Viv loved the pigeon there). It was after 2pm when we started ordering our lunch - just missed the lunch crowd!
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