Hong Kong International Airport ground transport

HKG runs from one large terminal (Terminal 1) at present, with all ground transport gathered on the Arrivals level and the adjoining Ground Transportation Centre. The MTR Airport Express is the headline link: non-stop to Tsing Yi (~12 min), Kowloon (~21 min) and Hong Kong Station in Central (~24 min), running every ~10-12 minutes from about 05:54 to 00:48. Octopus fares are HK$105 to Kowloon and HK$120 to Hong Kong Station (~€12-14); an in-town shuttle bus to major hotels is offered free with an Airport Express ticket, though its coverage has changed since 2020, so confirm the current route list on arrival. Cheaper are the Cityflyer coaches — the A11 threads across northern Hong Kong Island (Central, Wan Chai, Causeway Bay) for HK$40, the A21 covers Kowloon (Tsim Sha Tsui, Mong Kok) for about HK$35, and the A41 heads to Sha Tin in the New Territories for HK$22.3. For Lantau itself the S1 shuttle bus links the airport to Tung Chung MTR station for around HK$4. Taxis queue by colour: red urban cabs to the city (~HK$270-360), green to the New Territories, blue to Lantau destinations only. Because the Airport Express drops you at just three interchange stations, most trips finish with a short MTR, tram or taxi hop — the comparisons below spell that out destination by destination.