Hong Kong’s transport operators are rolling out an overnight service plan to cope with tens of thousands of party-goers and cross-border travellers on 24–25 December. The MTR Corporation will run trains through the night on all lines except the Airport Express, Disneyland Resort Line and the East Rail north of Sheung Shui. Headways on urban lines will tighten to as little as three minutes from mid-afternoon.
Franchised bus companies are adding 24-hour departures on 20 routes, while five special night-bus services will link New Territories districts with Kowloon interchange hubs in the small hours. Green-minibus operators have extended operating hours on four Kowloon routes and one New Territories run.
Cross-boundary capacity is also being boosted. An extra fleet of coaches will shuttle between the airport’s SkyPier, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge terminus and Macau’s Taipa port, giving international visitors a direct link to Macau casinos that remain popular with business and leisure travellers.
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For those international visitors, checking entry requirements before hopping on a night coach is essential. VisaHQ’s Hong Kong portal (https://www.visahq.com/hong-kong/) lets travellers from more than 200 countries instantly verify whether they need a visa for Hong Kong, Macau or onward destinations and even secure urgent processing online—handy when you’re planning a spontaneous festive getaway.
Police will impose phased road closures around Lan Kwai Fong, Tsim Sha Tsui and East Tsim Sha Tsui from late afternoon, and the Central–Mid-Levels escalator will stay open until 01:00. Employers with shift staff in retail or F&B should budget longer commute windows and provide taxi allowances where last-mile options thin out.
Although the measures are billed as holiday crowd control, they are an early stress-test for 24-hour public-transport proposals floated in the 2025 Policy Address—a development mobility managers are watching closely.
Franchised bus companies are adding 24-hour departures on 20 routes, while five special night-bus services will link New Territories districts with Kowloon interchange hubs in the small hours. Green-minibus operators have extended operating hours on four Kowloon routes and one New Territories run.
Cross-boundary capacity is also being boosted. An extra fleet of coaches will shuttle between the airport’s SkyPier, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge terminus and Macau’s Taipa port, giving international visitors a direct link to Macau casinos that remain popular with business and leisure travellers.
For those international visitors, checking entry requirements before hopping on a night coach is essential. VisaHQ’s Hong Kong portal (https://www.visahq.com/hong-kong/) lets travellers from more than 200 countries instantly verify whether they need a visa for Hong Kong, Macau or onward destinations and even secure urgent processing online—handy when you’re planning a spontaneous festive getaway.
Police will impose phased road closures around Lan Kwai Fong, Tsim Sha Tsui and East Tsim Sha Tsui from late afternoon, and the Central–Mid-Levels escalator will stay open until 01:00. Employers with shift staff in retail or F&B should budget longer commute windows and provide taxi allowances where last-mile options thin out.
Although the measures are billed as holiday crowd control, they are an early stress-test for 24-hour public-transport proposals floated in the 2025 Policy Address—a development mobility managers are watching closely.
