Hong Kong’s cruise recovery is nearly complete: 189 ship calls in 2025, 88% of the all-time peak, with 200-plus possible in 2026. Two terminals, one delta — and the ferries never stopped.
Kai Tak Cruise Terminal, on the runway of the old airport, logged 101 calls and 351,251 passenger movements in 2025, with seven inaugural calls in a single year — a two-berth facility that can turn around two mega-ships and 8,400 passengers simultaneously. Ocean Terminal in Tsim Sha Tsui remains the second berth, smaller but unbeatable for location: step off the ship into Harbour City.
The 2026 pipeline points past 200 calls as regional homeporting rebuilds. Beyond cruising, Hong Kong’s port is still one of the world’s great container gateways, and Victoria Harbour remains a working harbour first — the Star Ferry, running since 1888, is the cheapest front-row seat to it.
Hong Kong’s sea network is wider than its cruise berths: TurboJET catamarans run to Macau in about 55 minutes from Sheung Wan, China Ferry Terminal in Tsim Sha Tsui serves Macau and Pearl River Delta cities, and outlying-island ferries stitch Lamma, Cheung Chau and Lantau to Central. Since the HZMB bridge opened, sea and road now compete for the delta’s crossings.
Embarking at Kai Tak? The terminal sits far from the MTR — budget a taxi or the free shuttle, and arrive on the early side; its rooftop park is worth half an hour before check-in. For Macau, our pick stays the 55-minute TurboJET from Sheung Wan: faster door-to-door than the bridge shuttle once you count both border crossings.
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