the Furama Hotel and Cable & Wireless buildings are no more
MdB
25-Jul-2010 12:01
I used to love the Star Ferry and so did my children. We used to note all the names, North Star, Polar Star etc. I used to travel to work from Kowloon Pier by speedboat to Tsing Yi Island when I lived in Kowloon. I used to arrive at the pier looking cool and the Engineers were all sweaty and hot and couldn't understand why I wasn't. I never told them I used to walk through the Ocean Centre first because it was air conditioned to cool down.
Jeff
08-Feb-2010 23:00
Used to take about 20 minutes to ride the star ferry across the harbor. Now? About 8 minutes. Soon the darn thing will be moored in place and used as a bridge!!!
Just a matter of time before the Kowloon side is demolished.
Vile
17-May-2009 13:15
A clarification - the Star Ferry is still there (so far) - but the Central pier with its famous clock tower has been controversially demolished and rebuilt further along the reclamation in a rather tacky faux-Victorian style. It remains to be seen whether the Star Ferry will survive once the bus termius next to the Tsim Sha Tsui pier is turned into a 'shopping piazza'.
There is still the Wan Chai to Hung Hom route, of course.
