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Looking for a cruise from Hong Kong to Shanghai

We are looking for a cruise from Hong Kong to Shanghai.
We have a China visa and don't need to stop off in Taiwan or Okinawa.
All I have seen so far is one Viking cruise, but we don't need the English language support.

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Scott, a couple of options.

The cruise industry is one where travel agents still have a very active role. You could contact a travel agent that specializes in cruises for assistance.

More of a dyi person? Then consider some of the general cruise search engines out there like vacationstogo.com or cruiseplum.com.

Third option is to go to specific cruise line webpages, and use their search engines. Input ports you are interested in and the general time frame. If doing this, I’d start with Princess, Azamara, MSC, Holland America.

Posted by
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There also used to be a ferry service, which ran from Harbour City in Kowloon- you had to go through a big shopping mall to access the ferry terminal. I don't know if it still runs, and can't immediately retrieve the company name, but the 2023 Google Street View shows the gangway still there. I could never get the time off to use it, but understood it was mainly used as a booze and gambling trip.

With flights and the Hi-Speed train it could have had it's day.

I know there is a big market in Chinese language cruises (mainly as the old ferry booze/gambling cruises), which only a specialist travel agent will know about. Looking at the Kai Tak cruise schedule a good bet seems to be the MV Piano Land (the former Oriana of P and O), now running with a company called CSSC (Adora China Cruises), but I can't trace a web site.

I arrived back in HK once on a 12 pax French container ship (CMA CGV) which then continued on to Shanghai and other Chinese ports, but they stopped taking passengers after Covid.