Section: Travel Guide

CotaiJet Ferry to Sail Again Soon (Update)

Update CotaiJet to resume sailings again on 20 January 2008! See CotaiJet site for more details. There has been a court ruling that rejected an application to suspend the services. The Macau Government expects ferry services between Taipa and Hong Kong to soon resume again. A statement released today by the Maritime Administration said the ferry company

Macau Receives Record Numbers of Christmas Visitors

Again Macau breaks new records with the arrival of about 779,000 vistors during the Christmas holidays, with at least thirty thousand Hong Kong people congesting the entry ways of Macau as most of them began their Christmas holidays on Tuesday. Information from the Chinese language Macau Daily newspaper showed that the number of arrivals reached 55,000

Ticket Touts at Macau Ferries Becoming a Pest

Ticket touts are increasingly working the ferry terminals between Hong Kong and Macau, cashing in on the tourism boom in the territory that has revealed the inadequacy of ferry services. The public recently complaint about both the lack of ferries and associated ticket scalpers, when Venetian Macao held the exhibition matches between tennis stars Pete Sampras

Macau Visitor Arrivals Hits Another Record for November 2007

Macau continues to receive record numbers of visitors, as the number of visitor arrivals reached 2,458,120 in November 2007, representing a year-on-year increase of 26.1%. Visitors from Mainland China and Hong Kong rose by 31.2% and 10.3% respectively, with those from Southeast Asia soared by 85.4%. Meanwhile, same-day visitors accounted for 52.1% of the total

CotaiJet's Ferry Service Suspended

It seems that the powers to be namely Dr Stanley Ho and his daughter Pansey Ho have had some success with their arguments as the Macau Government has suspended the CotaiJet concession to operate ferry services between Hong Kong and Taipa. Apparently the Macau Government's reasoning was rejected by the Court, after it claimed that suspension

Hong Kong Denies Shortage of Ferry Berths

Berths rights for existing operators have not been cut and all is running smoothly at the Hong Kong-Macau Ferry Terminal in Sheung Wan five days after the new Taipa bound service started, a Hong Kong Marine Department officer said yesterday. A new operator, CotaiJets began a service between the temporary ferry terminal at Taipa and the

CotaiJets to More Than Double Sailings in 2008

Details of the agreement Macau's latest ferry operator has struck with the government were published yesterday in the government gazette. The contract signed on October 28 authorises Cotai Waterjet (Macau) Limited to operate regular fast maritime transportation of passengers between the Maritime Terminal of Taipa and destinations in Hong Kong for a period of 20 years. However

CotaiJet Now Officially Sailing From Taipa

Cotai Waterjet (Macau) Limited will begin officially sailing from the Taipa Temporary Ferry Terminal. Although the terminal was opened on October 16, neither of the two companies granted a license to operate from the facility was ready to sail. [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=c3c0SnEdm-M[/youtube] Courtesy: Destination Macau Cotai Waterjet, owned by Las Vegas Sands Corporation, blamed the delay on the Hong Kong

Macau Government Signs Cotai Ferry Concession Contract

The Macao Special Administrative Region Government signed on October 29, 2007 a concession contract for operating maritime passenger services between Taipa Ferry Terminal, Macao and Hong Kong with COTAI Waterjets (Macau) Limited, which is owned by Las Vegas Sands. The signing ceremony took place in the Office of the Secretary for Transport and Public Works, with

Air Macau expanding lines to Europe

Comment - The on-going network expansion of Air Macau and other airlines into Macau will be crucial to the success of the current casino and mega resort projects happening right now. Visitors numbers have to double/triple at least to make these projects viable. This means travel to Macau must be by more convinient, that is