When I came, I couldn't go back, and I wanted to go back, and the fare was 1,000 yuan for eight kilometers. This is not a joke, it happened in Hong Kong on the first day of 2024, this year Hong Kong's Victoria Harbor held the largest New Year's Eve fireworks countdown event in history, attracting a large number of mainland tourists to Hong Kong to watch, 580,000 people poured into Hong Kong to count down to 2024.
But how excited I am when I see it, how worried I am when I leave. The fireworks ended at 12:12 a.m., and as most of the ports were closed, a large number of passengers were unable to cross the border and go home, and they were stranded in Hong Kong. Hundreds of thousands of mainland tourists are stranded in Hong Kong late at night, tens of thousands of people are sleeping on the streets, and the toilets are full.
Most people don't choose to live in Hong Kong, so they come back the same day. However, the bus queued for several kilometers with no end in sight, and the traffic jam started for three hours. Due to the large flow of people, the computer system of the bus company was paralyzed for a time, unable to display the QR code of the bus, and needed to be checked manually, and many passengers were forced to stay on the streets, like refugees. The MTR is no better, with nearly 1,000 people queuing up inside the station, and finally passengers who can't stand it can only flee to 24-hour McDonald's or a certain wall floor to seek refuge.
Some people also say that they can do taxis, but at the end of the New Year's Eve, the passengers are in a hurry to go home, and some unscrupulous drivers take the opportunity to sit on the ground and start the price, and the distance to the port is 500 yuan, and there are drivers who directly increase the price of 1,000 yuan for eight kilometers.
According to statistics, on the evening of the 31st, the average hotel price in Hong Kong was 3000~4000 yuan, so everyone would rather choose to live on the streets. You must know that after those three years, everyone's consumption has been downgraded, and no one's money is blown by the wind, and the family knows that firewood and rice are expensive.
Some netizens shared their experiences, leaving at six o'clock in the evening and leaving the subway at eight o'clock, following the large army, and the crowd blocked the road. At this point, I didn't realize the severity of the problem. The distance of 200 meters, a small step in ten minutes, a big step in half an hour, and four hours to reach Victoria Harbour. While waiting, I saw scalpers selling tickets, and the young man was fighting. Finally 12 o'clock, I watched the fireworks in the cracks, and although I only saw a part of it, it was really beautiful.
After reading and going to the subway station, I saw a bunch of people halfway. At that time, I thought that they didn't hurry home to see what was going on, until the entrance of the subway station I didn't know that there was a queue halfway there, so I continued to line back from the entrance of the subway station, and got out of the subway at half past one, and wanted to take a bus to the royal port. After walking a long circle and not seeing the end of the line, the good New Year's Eve has become the first day of the worst mood.
Another netizen shared that as an immigrant who came to settle in Hong Kong, it was really distressing to see everyone stranded at the border and the subway station, and I couldn't wait to bring everyone to my house for the night, but my family is too small, only 40 square meters, and I can't live so many people.
Some tourists simply take the first sunrise of 2024 and give a short 12-minute fireworks, but it takes 12 hours to heal.
Some netizens in Hong Kong said that the mainlanders stranded in Hong Kong that day were refugees, traveling on a poor foot, and could not afford to live in a hotel or afford to spend. I want to say, please put away your bitter faces, if these people are not mainlanders but foreigners, you probably vacate rooms overnight for them to live. It is true that Hong Kong's general income is very high, but what does it represent? Every day, red wine and cigars, delicacies from the mountains and seas, and symphony music at night? If you are transferred to the mainland, you will not necessarily have a more nourishing life.
In the face of such a farce of crowds, Leung Chun-ying, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), stressed that Hong Kong is still very attractive to mainland visitors, and that it is necessary to simplify customs clearance procedures, increase cross-border public transport capacity and extend customs clearance time as soon as possible before the Lunar New Year holiday. After this experience, will you go next time?#Victoria##Check-in Hong Kong Life#