Disneyland Resort Pier () is located at the south of the

Hong Kong Disneyland Resort The Hong Kong Disneyland Resort is a resort built and owned by Hong Kong International Theme Parks Limited, a joint venture of the Government of Hong Kong and The Walt Disney Company in Hong Kong on reclaimed land beside Penny's Bay, at the ...

Penny's Bay Penny's Bay or Chok Ko Wan () was a bay in north-eastern Lantau Island, and had been a port since the Ming dynasty. The bay has since been reclaimed and is the site of the Hong Kong Disneyland Resort, which consists of the Hong Kong Disneyland t ...

Lantau Island Lantau Island (also Lantao Island, Lan Tao) is the largest island in Hong Kong, located West of Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula, and is part of the New Territories. Administratively, most of Lantau Island is part of the Islands ...

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, with about 15-minute walking distance from

Disneyland Resort station Disneyland Resort () is a List of MTR stations, station on the Hong Kong MTR . It was built to serve the Hong Kong Disneyland Resort, and is located in Penny's Bay. History It opened for public use on 1 August 2005, in preparation for the o ...

. It is a public

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for use by private vessels,

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as well as tour vessels 24-hour free-of-charge. It was planned to provide a

ferry A ferry is a ship, watercraft or amphibious vehicle used to carry passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo, across a body of water. A passenger ferry with many stops, such as in Venice, Italy, is sometimes called a water bus or water ta ...

service between

Central Piers The Central Ferry Piers (Chinese: 中環碼頭) are situated on the northeast part of Central, Hong Kong Island. The ferries mostly depart to Outlying Islands in the New Territories, with the exception of Pier 1 serving as a governmen ...

and Disneyland Resort Pier. However, no ferry operators

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for the service. On 15 November 2016,

Star Ferry The Star Ferry is a passenger ferry service operator and tourist attraction in Hong Kong. Its principal routes carry passengers across Victoria Harbour, between Hong Kong Island, and Kowloon. The service is operated by the Star Ferry Co ...

announced that it has recently transformed a 27-year-old ferry "World Star" into an environmentally friendly tour boat, it will sail between

Tsim Sha Tsui Tsim Sha Tsui, often abbreviated as TST, is an urban area in southern Kowloon, Hong Kong. The area is administratively part of the Yau Tsim Mong District. Tsim Sha Tsui East is a piece of land reclaimed from the Hung Hom Bay now east of Tsi ...

and Disneyland. The company hopes to attract more tourists to explore Hong Kong on the water. The company expects to break even in six years' time.

References

External websites

Star Ferry Water Tour
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