A three-night add-on to Hong Kong, or a short trip on its own: Portuguese squares, egg tarts, and resort complexes with entire floors given to children.
Pick one, or pick two and split the days between them. Each card says roughly how long it is worth and how many things there are to do.
Ages 4-12 · 3D2N · 20 things to do
Two halves that barely resemble each other — an old town of painted churches and cobbles, and the Cotai strip of resorts, water parks and indoor play. Both are walkable and the shuttle buses between them are free.
The casino floors are strictly no under-21s, and getting between wings of some resorts means walking around them.
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When to go. October to December is the driest and most comfortable. Avoid Chinese New Year and Golden Week, when the whole city is full.
Choose where you are staying, then pick from what is reachable from there and the app builds a day-by-day plan around it.
4 hrs · flight · Ages 4-12 · 3D2N · 20 things to do. Two halves that barely resemble each other — an old town of painted churches and cobbles, and the Cotai strip of resorts, water parks and indoor play. Both are walkable and the shuttle buses between them are free.
Ages 5-12
A stone facade at the top of a wide staircase, with pastel Portuguese squares below. Do it early — the steps fill by ten.
Ages 6-12
A glass floor 223 metres up, and a bungee jump you can watch other people do. The glass panel is the whole appeal.
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A cone-shaped building on the waterfront with fourteen hands-on galleries and a planetarium. The reliable wet-day answer.
Ages 3-12
A digital art space at the Venetian where the rooms respond to being walked through. Bare feet, wet floors in places, and no queueing to look at anything.
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The big water stage show at the City of Dreams, with divers and motorbikes over a flooded set. Ninety minutes and the front rows get soaked.
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Wave pools and a skytop water slide inside the resorts. Day passes are sold to non-guests at most of them.
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An indoor play and games floor inside Studio City, which is the answer when the water park is closed for the season.
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A VR and motion-ride park at Studio City. Most of the rides have a height minimum, so check before buying for a smaller child.
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A small municipal play centre, and about three dollars. Not a resort attraction — which after two days on Cotai is the appeal.
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Full-body VR in teams of up to six. There is a height and age minimum, so this is one for the older end only.
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An indoor canal under a painted sky, with a singing gondolier. Absurd, and children take it completely seriously.
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Possibly the shortest cable car in the world, eighty seconds up to a lighthouse and a chapel. Costs almost nothing.
Ages 3-12
A figure-of-eight wheel bolted to the side of Studio City, twenty-three floors up. Fifteen minutes and cheap.
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A loop between the peninsula and Cotai. Macau is small but the two halves are a bridge apart, and this is the painless way across.
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Traditional dress hired for a session around the old Portuguese streets. Children's sizes are stocked; ask when you book.
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The original bakery is in Coloane village, twenty minutes out and a nicer walk than the strip. Buy more than you plan to.
Ages 6-12
Narrow lanes of pork chop buns, almond biscuits and jerky samples handed out at the door.
Ages All
The revolving buffet at the top of the tower, which turns a view into a meal and covers both in one stop.
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A large resort buffet with a children's rate, and cheaper than the Cotai equivalents. Booked ahead, it is a reliable evening.
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The Studio City buffet, which matters mostly because it is downstairs from the water park and the play floor.
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| Entry | Visa-free for Singapore passport holders for short stays. |
| Time | Same as Singapore. |
| Money | Pataca, but Hong Kong dollars are accepted everywhere at par. Change is often given in patacas. |
| Water | Tap water is treated; bottled is the norm. |
| Getting around | Free resort shuttle buses cover most of the city. Otherwise buses and taxis; there is no metro to the old town. |
| Casinos | Strictly no under-21s on the gaming floors, and routes between hotel wings sometimes pass through them. |
| Ferries | One hour from Hong Kong. Book ahead at weekends and carry passports. |