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| Both Turbojet and Cotai Water Jet will charge $175 per trip on weekdays, and $190 on weekends |
Fares for ferries between Hong Kong and Macau are
due to go up from Friday, Sept. 15, for the first time in five years.
Meantime, Sun
Ferry and Hong Kong and Kowloon Ferry which operate services between Central and
Cheung Chau and Peng Chau, respectively, will also increase fares by about
4% from Sept. 24.
Both Turbojet and Cotai Water Jet will increase
their current fare of $150 per daytime trip between Sheung Wan and Macau on
economy class to $175, or a 10% increase.
On weekends and holidays, passengers will pay $190 instead
of $175 during the day on economy class.
Night-time ferry will cost $220 per trip, an
increase of $20, for all days of the week, including holidays.
For Turbojet’s super class, the fare will go up to HK$395
from HK$360.
Cotai’s first-class tickets on the other hand will
cost $310 on weekdays, $329 on weekends and holidays, and $360 for night
sailing, a 10% increase overall.
For its VIP Cabin which has eight seats, passengers
will have to pay a total of HK$2,480 for weekdays, HK$2,632 for weekends and
HK$2,880 for night sailing, also a 10 percent increase.
For trips between Hong Kong International Airport
and Macau, the new economy class fare on Turbojet will be HK$297 for adults,
HK$226 for children and HK$165 for children under two years old. This amounts
to a 10 percent increase from the existing prices.
But Turbojet said it will offer a 10 % discount to
passengers who book return tickets on its website until December 15.
The fare increases come amid a continuing rise in
demand for the much cheaper option of taking the “Golden Bus” which shuttles
between Hong Kong and Macau almost non-stop, including at night.
For the same amount of time it takes to go between
the two places, all that passengers need to pay is $65 for the regular fare,
and $33 for concessionary fare.
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| Sun Ferry's regular ticket price to Cheung Chau will cost $29.20 on weekdays |
Meanwhile Sun Ferry will revise its fare for the fast
ferry between Central and Cheung Chau to $29.20, an increase of $6.90, while on
weekends and public holidays, the one-way fare will be $42.30, which is higher
by $9.80 than the current fare.
For the trips between Central and Mui Mo, the
weekday de luxe fare will be $34.10 and $48.90 for the weekends, an increase of
about 3.9%.
For the cross-water routes connecting Peng Chau, Mui
Wo, Chi Ma Wan, and Cheung Chau, the fares will be raised by 50 cents to
HK$14.5.
Hong Kong and Kowloon Ferry, on the other hand, got
the nod of the Transport Department to raise the fare for multi-journey tickets
by 8% and the single-journey tickets by 19%.
Both companies had sought to double their fares to cover the rising cost of operations and
dwindling patronage, especially in the wake of the pandemic.
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