Travel: China - Beijing

[verykiasu2010]

MUMMYOF3:

Hi,


Seek yr advice here. Hope someone can help.

I juz booked over the weekend 8days trip this dec n bringing my 3 boys n dad there. Bought some thick jeans n cotton thermal for them but my friend said jeans doesn't help as the wind will blow thru. Is it true? Wat kind of pants should I prepare?

you can try coldwear.com.sg, they have some very thin thermal which can be worn under the jean and will block out the wind

got it for my DS and DW last year when we went some where minus 25 degree C

[MUMMYOF3]

verykiasu2010:

MUMMYOF3:

you can try coldwear.com.sg, they have some very thin thermal which can be worn under the jean and will block out the wind

got it for my DS and DW last year when we went some where minus 25 degree C

Thanks ! Will drop by there to buy.

[starlight1968sg]

Anybody watched any chinese opera or aerobatic show during their hols in Beijing?


Anybody tried booking a tour with http://www.beijingtourguide.com/ ?

Thanks.

[starlight1968sg]

Anybody joined a local day tour (from a travel agency in Beijing) to Great wall?


Anyway visited Beijing Zoo to see the Panda?

[starlight1968sg]

Anybody visited Summer Palace? The subway (Bei Gong Men) will bring us to the north gate. However, many recommended tours start at the east gate. The distance between them is not near. How to "solve" this?

Also, we need to take a boat to see 17 Arch Bridge. How much is the fare? Am not going to row the boat…

[cookieandmonster]

MUMMYOF3:

Hi,


Seek yr advice here. Hope someone can help.

I juz booked over the weekend 8days trip this dec n bringing my 3 boys n dad there. Bought some thick jeans n cotton thermal for them but my friend said jeans doesn't help as the wind will blow thru. Is it true? Wat kind of pants should I prepare?

Hi,

Which travel agent r u traveling with? How's the itinerary like?

[megatron]

starlight1968sg:

Anybody joined a local day tour (from a travel agency in Beijing) to Great wall?


Anyway visited Beijing Zoo to see the Panda?

I joined a local day tour when I was there. The tour guide was good and she was able to tell us the history and stories of the places we visited (Great wall at Ba da ling). But as usual they bring you to all types of shops (selling jade, sweets, chinese medicine etc).
The lunch was really bad.
We were brought to this room with people from all different tour groups to have our lunch.
You have to join a table (about 10 pax), then then they start to serve the food (with no server spoon!)
The food was terrible, fried vegetables, steam fish (a small one to be shared by 10 pax), some man tou.

[starlight1968sg]

megatron:

I joined a local day tour when I was there. The tour guide was good and she was able to tell us the history and stories of the places we visited (Great wall at Ba da ling). But as usual they bring you to all types of shops (selling jade, sweets, chinese medicine etc).

The lunch was really bad.
We were brought to this room with people from all different tour groups to have our lunch.
You have to join a table (about 10 pax), then then they start to serve the food (with no server spoon!)
The food was terrible, fried vegetables, steam fish (a small one to be shared by 10 pax), some man tou.

Thanks for sharing.
After reading many interesting stories, we have decided to go to The Great Wall on our own. Hope we will not encounter much problems. The only issue is we are unlikely to cover the Ming's Tombs.

[verykiasu2010]

starlight1968sg:

megatron:

I joined a local day tour when I was there. The tour guide was good and she was able to tell us the history and stories of the places we visited (Great wall at Ba da ling). But as usual they bring you to all types of shops (selling jade, sweets, chinese medicine etc).

The lunch was really bad.
We were brought to this room with people from all different tour groups to have our lunch.
You have to join a table (about 10 pax), then then they start to serve the food (with no server spoon!)
The food was terrible, fried vegetables, steam fish (a small one to be shared by 10 pax), some man tou.

Thanks for sharing.
After reading many interesting stories, we have decided to go to The Great Wall on our own. Hope we will not encounter much problems. The only issue is we are unlikely to cover the Ming's Tombs.

rest assured that you will not encounter problems going to The Great Wall on your own.

sure problems : hunger, nature's call, souvenirs - buy or not .......but they have fast food KFC, reasonably well kept toilets, etc so no worry

[starlight1968sg]

Thanks verykiasu2010.

We are preparing a packed lunch to settle our hunger. Just hope that we can still tolerate the toilets