With all the help you can find online, DIY nowadays is one hell of an easy navigation. So to try out again my DIY prowess to test, I booked a flight for Hongkong-Macau-CEBU vacation tagging along my family as early as January this year.
I boarded the earliest flight to Hongkong via Cathay pacific airlines (the worst airline in terms of new features) from Narita and will arrive hongkong at around 1:30PM of their local time. While mom and bro will leave a domestic flight to Manila at an earliest flight as well and will board an afternoon flight via Philippine airlines and will arrive hongkong 3 hours later than mine. While dear hubby will board an afternoon flight from singapore via Singapore airlines as he was on business trip and we will just all met up at HKIA same day as originally planned. Timing and planning is the key thing here coz someone has to wait at the airport for freakin 3 hours.
Once my plane touched down HKIA, all passengers in my flight had to ride an airport train to transport us to terminal 1 where immigration and baggage conveyor for my flight is located. Find it a cool idea to have a train within the airport premises. Expect a long queue for immigration though. But once your done with it, baggage conveyors are just a few meters from the immigration counter. To know where to claim your baggage be attentive during your flight for the conveyor number where you can claim your baggage. For cathay pacific, announcement are being flashed in your tv screen.
Once i passed customs I saw this ticket counter for airport express where you can buy group tickets for a discounted price (HKD 190 for 3). I was suppose to buy an octopus card but decided not to since hailing a taxi is more convenient for us as Im tagging along my mom.
HKIA is a traveler friendly airport. One can definitely find their way around this huge airport and never be even bored for several hours of waiting time.. Its definitely in close second with my all time favorite airport changi and LAX.
