Answered by Borut
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Oct. 31, 2025 01:17
Part 2:
- You are strongly advised to take a train from Guangzhou to Hong Kong West Kowloon station instead of a bus. Taking a bus, in theory is also eligible, but you could find a hard time finding a through bus that you will be able to buy in advance on a single, through ticket. By taking a train you resolve all the formalities at a single place, in Hong Kong West Kowloon station where mainland Chinese and Hong Kong immigration authorities are co-located at the same premises.
- Taking a bus or train from Hong Kong toward mainland China is not eligible when traveling on 240 hour visa free transit. It is eligible in the other direction, but it is not when traveling from Hong Kong toward mainland China. Your best solution is to take a direct ferry from Hong Kong China Ferry terminal in Tsim Sha Tsui neighborhood (Southern Kowloon) to Nansha, a port located south from Guangzhou and connected to it by a metro line number 4. This option and a ferry to Shekou in Shenzhen are the only two options, beside a flight, of course, eligible to travel from Hong Kong toward mainland China "overland" under 240 hour visa free transit.
- In order to be eligible for 240 hour visa free transit you will have to stay in mainland China for at least a minute longer than 24 hours, based on the time from your scheduled arrival by ferry to Nansha until your scheduled departure from Guangzhou to Amsterdam.
Just to conclude, you should realistically expect that the visa waiver for the citizens of the Netherlands will be extended even after December 31 and when that happens, you can proceed with your original plan, absolutely unchanged because you can enter/exit China absolutely visa free and without bothering yourself about 24 or 240 hour visa free transit stuff that will not have any effect on your itinerary.
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