Last Boat 23:00: The 15-Hour Night

From 1 September TurboJET runs a new timetable, and the last sailing back from the Outer Harbour to Sheung Wan is 23:00. A ten o’clock finish used to leave time for the boat; now ten is when you have to leave. For anyone coming over from Hong Kong, the shape of the evening has changed. If you are still deciding, look at what the night can be instead.

For Victoria Sauna this is the simple part. The house is open 24 hours, spending here covers a stay of up to 15 hours, and therapists are on shift until six in the morning. Come in at eight, finish your treatment and your soak, sleep in the overnight rest area inside, and take a daytime sailing back to Sheung Wan the next morning, when they run one after another and nobody watches a clock. Room types and charges are told to you straight when you book.

No rush this time. Come in at three or come in at ten: the pool, the sauna and a full treatment happen in whatever order you want, with no ten o’clock alarm in the middle.

Two in the morning, and you are in the recliner lounge. The lights are down, the treatment you just had is still in your shoulders, and a few recliners along someone is already asleep. The last boat left hours ago and the people who ran for it are home by now; you did not have to run, and there are plenty of sailings in the morning. Outside, the street has finished its day, quiet enough that you cannot hear it.

That recliner is what we hold for you. Book Victoria Sauna through this site and there is a private car both ways: you come off the boat at the Outer Harbour and the car is already waiting outside the gate, your bag goes into a locker, your treatment and your two free add-ons are chosen once you are inside, and at the door you give a name and walk in. By the fifteenth hour it has long been daylight, the car takes you back to the Outer Harbour, and the daytime sailings to Sheung Wan run one after another, none of them worth watching a screen for.

In the morning you wash, lie back a while longer, and pack up when you feel like it. What the timetable shortened is the day-trip kind of night. Not yours.

As for the spend that covers the stay: on the new owner’s current menu it starts at MOP 1,198 for the Pure Sauna entry, the series run 2,298 to 6,998, and a 10% service charge applies to everything; the breakdown is on the price list. Exact figures follow the venue’s current menu confirmed when you book.

Since the timetable changed, almost every Hong Kong guest has asked these two

“If I miss the 23:00, can I still get back?” Yes. The HZMB shuttle coach runs on its own timetable, as posted at the port on the day; clear immigration, tell us, and the car back is arranged just the same. Most people who have read this far, though, have already moved on to the next question.

“If I arrive after midnight, is a full treatment still possible?” It is. Therapists are on shift until six in the morning and the house is staffed around the clock; if you would rather sleep first, the overnight rest area can be held for you. The 15 hours count from the moment you check in, not from the timetable. The FAQ covers a few of the other regulars.

You do not have to settle all of this now. The date, how many of you, whether you stay or go back that night, a rough budget: one message on WhatsApp, Telegram, LINE or WeChat. What time the car meets you at the gate, what time you go in, what time we take you back to the Outer Harbour the next day, we arrange. The timetable changed; your evening does not have to shrink with it.