Hong Kong Airport – restricted/non-restricted areas

11/12/2012 3:27:20 PM

I did the trip and I can confirm that with 2 hours you don’t have time to go out of the restricted area (with the time I had, 3h 30m it’s possible but not recommended).
I arrived at Gate 2 and my departure was from Gate 47, it’s a long walk and you need to pass another security check. More or less you spend 1h 30m to do so. If you get out and you need to do all the security checks.

By the way, there were no GoPro in the airport.. I checked a lot of the stores I looked before in the website.

7/18/2012 1:21:41 PM

‘Restricted area’ are the shops near the departure gates, and if you stay within that area then you don’t need to go through passport control. However, if you want to go into the non-restricted area then you will have to go through passport control. Hong Kong has fairly open rules for most nationalities and your get the visa as a stamp on-arrival (if you choose to go through passport control).

It really depends on how long your layover is. HK International Airports restricted area shops are mostly duty-free ones and there’s a much larger variety of shops in the non-restricted area. If you have a few hours, then you can definitely exit and enter again; security checks don’t take too long usually – I haven’t had to wait more than half an hour, ever.

7/18/2012 11:19:44 AM

Looks like the restricted area is restricted for the passengers only, so you will be in this area basically.

The non-restricted are is where anyone can come from the city, and which is before border control and security checks (from the perspective of people arriving from the city). You can assume that you will not get to this area (unless you want to go through the Hong-Kong passport control).

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