Frank shares the tips for cruising with old parents

The tips for having cruise holiday with senior parents

Frank the tour guide shares the tips from a post of Cruise Critics for having cruise holiday with elderly parents.

Star Cruise berthed at Ocean Terminal Hong Kong.

They are very useful for the grown-up sons and daughters to take care for their parents in the cruise ship and during shore excursion.

For details, please read Frank's post at Easy Hong Kong Private Tour blog.

Please choose Frank's Hong Kong private car tour for senior parents

Frank the tour guide's easy Hong Kong private car tour can be senior cruisers' easy shore excursion.

The grown-up sons and daughters can choose Frank's shore excursion service for their parents.

 

Frank's posts about dining alone on Royal Caribbean cruises and taking good travel photos in Hong Kong

Frank shares tips about dine alone on Royal Caribbean cruises and taking good travel photos in Hong Kong

Frank the tour guide's new posts on Easy Hong Kong Private Tour blog shows tips for Royal Caribbean cruisers and Hong Kong travelers.

Unexpectedly Royal Caribbean cruisers may just ask for the waiters for help at some restaurants to get the table to dine alone.

If Royal Caribbean cruisers and other cruises' passengers want to have the private shore excursion, they can book Frank's private car tour programme.

During Frank's tour, which covers the major highlights and hidden gems of Hong Kong, clients will get a lot of chances to take nice travel photos.

Beautiful Hong Kong's good view is close to you.

That is good to have powerful camera and lenses.

However, if you just have powerful smart phone or even a point to shoot camera, you can still take good travel photos in Hong Kong easily.

Just watch Huawei 's video on its Facebook page, you will understand.

For details, please browse the original posts

Please read Frank's post about tips for dining alone on Royal Caribbean cruises and tips for taking good travel photos in Hong Kong.

Frank retrospects the first good review for him from the first client

Frank gets the first good review from the first client

Frank posts a retrospection for his first client's first good review for him in 2012.

Frank tried his best to do the shore excursion for his first client Geraldine Hamilton from Australia.

Geraldine praised Frank as "wonderful" and his tour as "great"...

Geraldine Hamilton (Toursbylocals) from Australia

15 Oct 2012

5-Star Review: Frank was wonderful, the tour was great and I can’t thank Frank enough for the wonderful day we spent with him. I strongly recommend him to everyone that want a great day in Hong Kong. 

Frank’s response: Thank you very much! Good health and good luck!!!

This first good review is very important for Frank's private guide career development.

He is confident that he can get more good reviews in the foreseeable future from new clients after the easy private car tour.

For more clients' good reviews for Frank, you may browse the review site for Frank.

Read the full retrospection by reading Frank's post

Please read Frank's post to read Frank's full retrospection for his first good review.

 

Pros & cons of the Kai Tak Cruise Terminal

Kai Tak Cruise Terminal, pros and cons

In 2013, you read our post, Old airport, New terminal, to learn the latest development of the ex-Kai Tak Airport. In Nov 2013, the Kai Tak Cruise Terminal welcomed the first big cruise. This post shows you the pros and cons of the new Kai Tak Cruise Terminal of Hong Kong.

Pros1 It is really BIG

The two berths at the end of the old airport runway can accommodate two large cruises at the same time. 

Celebrity Millennium (tonnage: 91,000), Sapphire Princess (tonnage: 115,875) and Mariner of the Seas (tonnage: 138,279) come a lot. 

The brand new Ovation of the Seas (Tonnage: 168,666) will even use Kai Tak as its home port.

Pros2 Spectacular view

You can go to the roof top garden of the Kai Tak Cruise Terminal to see the amazing Victoria Harbour view from a different angle. 

Or some private shore excursions (full day Hong Kong Kowloon tour, full day Hong Kong Lantau Big Buddha Island tour) can let you take the local ferry to take a photo for your cruise from the sea. 

That photo should get lots of likes in Facebook!

Pros3 Do everything indoor

You will do everything, embarkation, disembarkation, get back your luggage, wait for your private guides, board the transports etc., indoor. 

The sun and rainfall outside cannot disturb you. 

Plus Hong Kong's efficiency, embarking or disembarking the cruise at Kai Tak should be the easy experience.

Cons1 It is really REMOTE

You can see the beautiful view of Hong Kong from the cruise terminal, but it is difficult to 'touch' them. 

It is because the Kai Tak Cruise Terminal is at the remote end of the runway of the old airport. 

It is the first completed redevelopment project of the old airport area. 

Most of the areas nearby are under construction.

Cons2 Poor transportation

There are only two links between the city area and the port. 

When they can get enough businesses in the city center especially on the weekday morning, the taxi drivers don't want to drive a long way to go to Kai Tak. 

So there are long queues for the shuttle buses, which are arranged by the nearby shopping malls. 

When the guests want to go back the cruise from the malls, they face the same problem.

Cons3 Poor supporting facilities

Kai Tak is far away. 

So there are not enough choices for the guests to do shopping and dinning. 

As most cruise passengers want to 'jump' to the city center at once (that is normal and sometimes that is really better!), the business for the restaurants and mall in the cruise terminal is not good. 

The Chinese restaurant, which can accommodate about 800 guests, can only rely on the local wedding party business. 

The mall fares even worse. The boss owes the staff months of salary. 

Cruise passengers, you may contact Frank the tour guide to plan your easy private shore excursion.

We can pick you up at and send you back to the Kai Tak Cruise Terminal by our private car.

You can have the easy and enjoyable private car tour in Hong Kong.

You may browse our different private shore excursion options.

See you in Hong Kong! 

Old Kai Tak Airport, New Kai Tak Cruise Terminal and fortune telling

Kai Tak Airport to Kai Tak Cruise Terminal 

In the past Kai Tak meant airport in Hong Kong. 

Today it means the new cruise terminal in Hong Kong. 

From the reclaimed land to Kai Tak Airport in 1920

Kowloon’s old Kai Tak Airport was built in 1926 on the reclaimed land.  It was famous because it was a dangerous in-city airport, which was surrounded by hills and buildings.  

However, fortune tellers (Fung Shui experts) emphasized that the busy Kai Tak Airport was the ‘heart’ of Hong Kong.  It pumped the blood for Hong Kong’s prosperous economy.   

Busy airport to no-man land after 1998

The old Kai Tak Airport was emptied when Hong Kong got a new airport at Chak Lap Kok Island in 1998.  It became a quiet no-man land with some decaying buildings for about 10 years!  

Fortune tellers described that it was a heart failure.  It lost the important function.  So Hong Kong economy became sluggish.

NO-man land to Kai Tak Cruise Terminal in 2013

Later Hong Kong Government decided to build a Kai Tak Cruise Terminal on the old runway.  It opens in June 2013.  The berths can even accommodate the biggest cruises in the world.

  
Lots of cruises, cruise passengers and tourists are going to bring vibrancy to Hong Kong’s economy.  Fortune tellers reiterate that the new terminal can bring good luck to Hong Kong.  Do you believe in them?

If YOUR cruise will berth at the Kai Tak Cruise Terminal and YOU are looking for the private guide for YOUR private shore excursion, YOU can contact Frank the tour guide for private shore excursion planning!

YOU may also browse easy and enjoyable tour options for the YOUR private shore excursion in Hong Kong and Macau!

See YOU in at the Kai Tak Cruise Terminal in Hong Kong!