If you're doing a circle trip entering via West Kowloon you still have the awkwardness of getting a qualifying ticket out to Macau.
Doing it the other way, a train ticket out to HK is easy to get, but you can't enter via the bridge because you are entering from HK. You have to enter the Mainland from Macau either via ferry to a qualifying port or at Hengqin. Gongbei, like Luohu, isn't open to TWOV entries.
Not quite the game changer it might seem when you look at the practicalities.
But it certainly benefits some. Like those in Hong Kong who want to take international flights from Shenzhen or Guangzhou.
Hengin is one of the 5 added as qualified entry point. It has ferry directly to / from Taipa, isn’t it?
Isn’t the bridge can go to Macau instead of Hong Kong? I used the bridge many times and saw the Macau/Zhuhai route at the Macau entry pt. on the bridge. Can’t you take the bridge to Macau port of entry on the bridge, then take the Macau - Zhuhai bus to enter China? Even that means you may go thru Macau immigration to exit Macau then take the bus? For us we don’t mind to spend a day or two in Macau for some R&R activities. So we have different angles in looking at this circuitry thing.
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I also read someone posted that she bought a bus ticket from Canton to Macau, purchased ahead of time as her exit proof when entering PVG by air. She even complained that when she actually took the bus she saw many just bought the bus ticket on the spot. I reminded her, without her pre purchased bus ticket she would not be allowed to enter China under TWOV.
Off the top of my head, enter China from HKG you can take Train at Kowloon West / Ferry to Nanshan or Hengin boarded at China Ferry Terminal at TST, or the bus via the bridge, Exiting China to Macau you can take a ferry at Hengin or a bus from Zhuhai via the bridge or just out to Gongbei.
Vice versa if you enter from Macau exit to Hong Kong.
Correct me if I am missing something or understand the routes wrong.
I thought it makes it much easier for those who just want to make a casual trip when not having either the Chinese Visa or the Home Return Permit.
Oh yeah, CX J fares are much cheaper if you tag on a segment from/to China, CKG and CTU apparently are the equivalent of CAI in the sense of cheap biz tickets.