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Old August 14th, 2012, 10:51 AM posted to rec.travel.asia
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Default Beijing China Tours

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On 8/12/2012 3:10 PM, jacquey wrote:
We will be going on a cruise in April 2013. One of our ports is Beijing
for 2 nights. What tours are available beside the ships tours? Do you
have to stay in a hotel in Beijing overnight rather than coming back &
forth to the ship? Thank You


Since there's no port in Beijing, this will be an interesting trip! I
think that cruise ships dock in Tianjin. You can take the high speed
train to Beijing (Beijing South station), it's about a 35 minute ride.
From the train station, you can take the subway all over Beijing, it's
very easy to use, and there is English signage and announcements. Of
course there are taxis as well, just be sure you have your destination
printed out in Chinese characters.

You probably don't want to go back to Tianjin every night, so you should
get a hotel in Beijing.

Without knowing what you like to do it's hard to make recommendations.

We were in Beijing in June 2012. The highlight of the trip was the trip
to the Great Wall, but not the Disneyland-like,

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For the benefit of those that don't know. The suggestion that the easily
accessible parts of the wall are "Disneyland-like" is a gross
over-exaggeration.

"Commercialised" is a more reasonable description. I.e there is an excess
of stalls selling you tat, there most emphatically is not: people walking
around dressed up in period costumes, nor are there "rides" for you to go
on.

tim