Yes, the info was from the HKKF "news" page. One-year old news...

But what would you expect from a co. website who doesn't even answer advertising inquiry emails to their official public "info" email address?
I was asking about the cost of advertising on the ferry piers. No replies to my two emails...

But there IS an announcement of a 1:45am ferry posted at the YSW ferry pier gate for this coming Lunar New Year.

Anybody got the exact date? Jan 22?

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Just go to the Central pier office. A lot of companies set up a website in a flush of enthusiasm and then leave it to decay. Once their exposed address starts to get tons of spam they probably can't be bothered to look through the mailbox any more.

Correctamando, Lamma-Gung. Jan 22 is Chinese New Years day this year

Agree to Alan that the website has too much info out of date.

Suggestion: Update the database and inform members what is on frequently.

gi ven that it's a six-hour gap i dont want to get greedy. 3am ferry would let me get to work for 5am, i would just have to spend an hour and a half kicking around Hong Kong. this would save me tens of thousandsof dollars a year on the sampan rides, motorboat or Hong Kong apartment I would otherwise be shelling out for!

have been waiting since i move in!!
at least one between 1230am to 2am please!!!

count me in

Hi All,

I have two collegues stationed on Lamma Island.
They have asked me to find out if there are others ways except for normal ferry to get back to Lamma next Saturday (sunday 23/7/2005 morning 02:00AM).
We are wiling to pay couple of hundreds HK$ to get this service because we are having a say goodbye evening on HK Island.

Very much appreciated any suggestions for alternative transport.
No mather from where on HK (Aberdeen maybe?)

Thanks in advance.

Bertil

Hi Bertil, you can get a sampan at Aberdeen, at the fish market. The sampan drivers stay up all night on Saturdays ready for Lamma island victims - its normally 80/ride but on Saturday night after midnight, expect to pay at least HK$160 (after hard negotiations!) It takes about 45 minutes to reach Lamma. Enjoy your Saturday night party!

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just run a trial for just 2 months without enough notification! i do appreciate additional ferry during that time especially during public holiday, christmas, easter, midautumn fes, new year...

2.30am and 4.30am on Fri, Sat & public holiday eves.

I agree with webdog

it would be great if the ferry could be scheduled on Friday night , Saturday night, Sunday night and the holiday eve , say 0130hrs, 0330hrs from Hong Kong to Lamma.

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Sorry, guys,
this topic is now dead with the ferry company. See this topic:
http://www.lamma.com.hk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2260

They ran a 2-month trial run of late ferries last summer, then declared it as unsucessful with "not enough passengers".
The ferry co. won't even talk about any late ferries anymore for the foreseeable future.

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Count me in... Talk to the right person.. say. the Co. Top Management.

i could fully understand. the ferry co. said the trial was failed and said it was already sufficient prove that the late ferry matter wasnt a main concern.!!!??? but i did think that was due to the wrong schedule and of course not enough (wide) discussion . i dont know if the ferry co. would go on the matter again.. but still hope it may be a chance.....

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If you miss the last ferry you have many choices:

(1) Rent a sampan, Haven't done it, though.

(2) If you are returning to the mainland, be sick enough to go to hospital (OK, this is not a choice). As an American who recently paid half an enormous emergency room bill for my grown son, I was amazed not to be billed for a trip for myself to the emergency room last winter for a condition that turned out to be benign.

(3) Swim

(4) If you are in Kowloon, check into the Chung King hotel. If you are not up to the Chung King, the Mirador may be considered practice for a stay at the Chung King.

(5) Sleep in the flyover between IFC and the ferry. Again, in the USA this wouldn't be recommended.

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Why am I not surprised to find out you are American.

As L-G says, there will be no late ferries as long as this ferry company is operating. They have their contract and, even though they claim to be losing millions of dollars, will not give it up to a ferry company which will do a half decent job of transporting us with a modicum of dignity.
Should the ferries bother you there is a simple solution and that is to move off the island or curtail your drinking in town to make the 12.30 and continue in one of the many bars on the island, thereby helping the local, local economy.

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YMMV - Your mileage may vary.

There was a German called Peter who claimed to swim from Western to Lamma with his clothes strapped to his head.

He had a big red beard, so I called him Mein Hairy. He never did get it.

Last seen in Woodstock, Nana Plaza about 1999.

To Mr. Ed "Banger":

Why am I offended at the gratuitous anti-American implication?

What is my nation? Who speaks of my nation?

Captain MacMorris was offended in the old play by Fluellen, as I am.

I'll thank you, sir, not to make any inferences, implications, insinuations, deductions, inductions or lemmas based on my nation. Unlike certain isles I could name, my nation is large, as its poet said when accused of self-contradiction, and it contains multitudes, unlike certain antipodeal continents I could name: but I name neither isles nor continents since unlike Fluellen in the old play, I don't make smartass, gratuitous, out of context and on the face of it illogical remarks about nationality.

My nation has been sorely tried by a corrupt and unrepresentative government since January of 1980.

So. Don't. Push. Us. We're on schedule to vote the bastards out in November of this year without having to wait for the Prime Minister to call an election and it's running 3-1 for the Democrats. We are certainly not the only former colony to suffer a constitutional coup d'etat (Australia 1975) nor not the only nation to fall under a Yes, Ministership.

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