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Tour Scams   Beijing

Tour Scams, Beijing

 76 Reviews  Again I would mark this as a tourist trap since you will be enticed to buy stuff inside since you are eating in their restaurant called Derun jewellry but however, unlike sales person in other... 

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Badaling Great Wall   Beijing

Badaling Great Wall, Beijing

 24 Reviews  Some people condemn the stalls by the monuments, and their oppression on the tourists. Some times they are right - it becomes uncomfortable - but not always. In an isolated place where thousands of... 

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Shopping   Beijing

Shopping, Beijing

 44 Reviews  The famed Silk Alley Market in central Beijing is a huge market basically geared for tourists only - you will never see local Chinese people shopping here! It was an interesting experience to say the... 

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Beijing Zoo   Beijing

Beijing Zoo, Beijing

 13 Reviews  I was expecting to see a very carefully recreated environment, with small, planted and protected bamboo forests, where the pandas could live in a half free but controlled condition. It was... 

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Taxis/Rickshaws   Beijing

Taxis/Rickshaws, Beijing

 28 Reviews  After sightseeing at the Imperial Palace, I know from the map we had that our hotel is near the place and within a walking distance as we are in not in a hurry. We asked the traffic man for direction... 

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Art Students   Beijing

Art Students, Beijing

 13 Reviews  My husband and I loved China, and I had read all about the scams before we left for our trip. But, on arriving, I had totally forgotten everything I had read! We hadn't been in Beijing five hours (in... 

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Ming Tombs   Beijing

Ming Tombs, Beijing

 9 Reviews  During the third Ming emperor, he built Ming Tombs, where were buried several members of the imperial family. Their layout is according to the rules of feng shui and has several buildings ... To be... 

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Mao's Mausoleum   Beijing

Mao's Mausoleum, Beijing

 7 Reviews  This is a large structure at the south end of the famour Tian. Square...there is one entrance fee for the locals and it doubles for foreign visitors. (was 10 RMB in 2004) but may have hiked up more by... 

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Amusement Parks   Beijing

Amusement Parks, Beijing

 5 Reviews  Getting a tour guide If you don't speak chinese, than it is best to just rent the audio tour from the ticket booth, don't try to buy tickets from people standing at the entrance, they are not licensed... 

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The No. 2 Travelling Bus

by sugarpuff

I had some friends coming to visit me so I thought I'd take them to the Great Wall. The No. 2 Travelling Bus also included the Ming Tombs, which my friends wanted to visit, so that was ok. So we arrived at the bus stop (near the main Beijing Railway Station) and chose the 'luxurious' bus to travel on for 50yuan round trip. At 9.30am we all chugged away on our sixteen seater minibus! All of a sudden, the tour guide switched on his microphone and shouted all of Beijing's history down it! This carried on for an hour! In Chinese!We arrived at our first destination...a desolate area of land with no-one in sight. He may as well have shouted down the microphone 'WELCOME TO THE FIRST SCAM OF THIS TOUR'! Everyone paid their 45yuan entrance fee and marched in. We refused to pay as we had no idea what it was as it was behind tall locked gates! After 10mins and out of pure insanity (or because the...

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919 Bus to Badaling Great Wall

by sugarpuff

In the guide books it tells you to go to Deshengmen bus station to get the 919 bus to Badaling Great Wall. As a matter of fact, its not the bus station you go to, but 'Gulou' which is a big watch tower. The buses are directly behind it. The bus station DOES have 919 buses but they are city buses and wont take you anywhere near the wall. The ones you want are comfortable looking green and white buses.Apart from that, there are private taxi owners hanging around that area just waiting to pounce on tourists not really knowing where they are going! A few years ago I was faced with the dilemma of either getting the bus for 24yuan return or a private taxi for 300yuan return! Not much of a dilemma you say...but...when the taxi driver tells you that its very easy to get the bus there but very difficult to get it back and you could be left there stranded, you do begin to wonder if the cheap deal...

Beware of lying touts when taking airport bus!

by Trique

Went to the aviation centre at Xidan to take airport bus. Bought the tickets (16yuan) and was about to board the bus. There were a few guys standing next to the bus and one held out his hand to examine the tickets. He then went on to ask me for my flight timing. Subsequently, he exclaimed that i will not be able to make it in time, claiming that the trip will take 1.5 hrs and that the bus will only stop at terminal 3 which is another 15 mins from my terminal 2. His attitude is very matter of fact and seemed authoritative. I was told to take the 'airline transport' and was led to a row of 'Santanas'. Realised that it is a sham, i went back to the bus and saw that there were guys in uniform at the other side of the bus checking tickets. Much time is wasted, not to mention the anxiety and near panic attack. So, do beware!In any case, the bus ride was about 1 hr and they stopped at all...

Beware of Private Cabs

by Joy1912

There are some private cabs (with no company names or the usual color that cabs have on the road) with tampered meter... beware! Either agree on the price before you board the cab or don't take such cabs at all. Take those cabs that you see on the streets. Identify them by the colours of the name of the company. The newer sedan cabs are slightly more expensive than those that looked like they have been around for 10 years :P

Beijing Taxi

by hbl

Avoid "non-authorized" taxis by getting your cab at the hotels or in the authorized stops. We caught a cab at the back end of our hotel and got duped by their tampered meter. It read "75 rmb" and we knew that it should have been much less, but we couldn't argue since we didn't speak the language. Caught a "real" cab back from that same point to our original point for "34 rmb". Take heed to other tips that tell you to avoid "taxi soliciters" at the airport. Most all of our taxi experience was honest albeit gruff. Keep a destination card (written in Chinese) to each point of destination - including your own hotel so that the driver clearly understands where he drives you. If your doing heavy duty shopping or personal touring, just hire a private car for about $50USD or so for all day (we used ours for 10 hours!)

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Hiring a Taxi

by pjt0309

When at the airport be sure to select a taxi that is in line outside of the airport, beware other people trying to get you to go with them. I fell for their line and ended up paying 3 times what I should have. Ignore any person that comes up to you inside of the airport termianl and offers their taxi service. They will keep talking to you but just ignore them and go outside to the reputable taxi driver stand.

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Q:  is it ideal to book my train ticket on my arrival to beijing 3 days before departing to xian? or it has to be done online 15 days... 

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A: most of the online tickets are over-priced.You can just do it in Beijing when you are there...3 days before the departure will be fine for the Xian ticket 

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