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going to china october 11th - but.....
hi i heard from my friends saying that chinese get 1 week holiday
starting october 7th or october 10th. and tourist areas (and everywhere) will be swarmed by large local tourists. is that true? I thought the week-long holiday starts 1st october. |
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going to china october 11th - but.....
On Mon, 2 Jun 2008 02:11:23 -0700 (PDT), the renowned nick chan
wrote: hi i heard from my friends saying that chinese get 1 week holiday starting october 7th or october 10th. and tourist areas (and everywhere) will be swarmed by large local tourists. is that true? I thought the week-long holiday starts 1st october. October 1-7 these days, AFAIK, for the mainland. October 10 (double-ten day) is the holiday on Taiwan. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Week_%28China%29 Best regards, Spehro Pefhany -- "it's the network..." "The Journey is the reward" Info for manufacturers: http://www.trexon.com Embedded software/hardware/analog Info for designers: http://www.speff.com |
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going to china october 11th - but.....
On Jun 2, 2:11*am, nick chan wrote:
hi i heard from my friends saying that chinese get 1 week holiday starting october 7th or october 10th. and tourist areas (and everywhere) will be swarmed by large local tourists. *is that true? I thought the week-long holiday starts 1st october. Starting on Oct 1 in China. But I think they don't get the full week anymore, it's more like 3 days. |
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going to china october 11th - but.....
nick chan wrote:
hi i heard from my friends saying that chinese get 1 week holiday starting october 7th or october 10th. The way this works is as follows: The Chinese get three days' holiday for October 1st, the national day. For the last few years they have worked the weekend before the week with the holiday, and then been given the other two week days in lieu, which with the final weekend gives them seven days off in a row. So to be clear, they work Saturday and Sunday (and services usually available at weekend such as certain bus tours are not available because these are working days), and then have Monday to Sunday off. The exact dates are often not announced until shortly before the holiday but you might guess would be Mon 29 Sept to Sun 5 Oct. A similar arrangement used to apply to the first week of May, but that has now been cancelled, the holiday reduced to a single day, and the other two days distributed elsewhere. and tourist areas (and everywhere) will be swarmed by large local tourists. is that true? Not exactly. The population of larger cities has more people with the discretionary spending to be able to take a leisure trip and so traffic tends to ease (official cars are sometimes ordered off the roads, too), it's easier to get around, and the pollution may lighten. Famous sights are certainly busy, but not usually impossibly so. On the other hand mountain-top, scenic, and resort destinations are packed out, and hotel prices often double. Transport prices may also rise. So the best idea is to a big city before the holiday starts (when transport will be packed), stay there until the middle (when the usual transport discounts are available and almost no one is moving), then move to another big city and stay still until it's all over. Overall that week is best avoided, but it's by no means impossible to deal with. Peter N-H http://www.datasinica.com |
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going to china october 11th - but.....
In article 5bdb53ae-4d6f-4353-b63c-8b81b54965f0
@u6g2000prc.googlegroups.com, nick chan says... hi i heard from my friends saying that chinese get 1 week holiday starting october 7th or october 10th. and tourist areas (and everywhere) will be swarmed by large local tourists. is that true? I thought the week-long holiday starts 1st october. According to my brother in law who used to live in Beijing, in the first week of October Beijing used to get so full that you couldn't walk on the streets. So two years ago I spent the first October week in Xinjiang, which is a more remote place and doesn't get that many tourists. -- Alfred Molon http://www.molon.de - Photos of Asia, Africa and Europe |
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going to china october 11th - but.....
On Jun 3, 12:14*am, (Peter Neville-Hadley)
wrote: nick chan wrote: hi i heard from my friends saying that chinese get 1 week holiday starting october 7th or october 10th. The way this works is as follows: The Chinese get three days' holiday for October 1st, the national day. For the last few years they have worked the weekend before the week with the holiday, and then been given the other two week days in lieu, which with the final weekend gives them seven days off in a row. So to be clear, they work Saturday and Sunday (and services usually available at weekend such as certain bus tours are not available because these are working days), and then have Monday to Sunday off. The exact dates are often not announced until shortly before the holiday but you might guess would be Mon 29 Sept to Sun 5 Oct. A similar arrangement used to apply to the first week of May, but that has now been cancelled, the holiday reduced to a single day, and the other two days distributed elsewhere. and tourist areas (and everywhere) will be swarmed by large local tourists. *is that true? Not exactly. The population of larger cities has more people with the discretionary spending to be able to take a leisure trip and so traffic tends to ease (official cars are sometimes ordered off the roads, too), it's easier to get around, and the pollution may lighten. Famous sights are certainly busy, but not usually impossibly so. On the other hand mountain-top, scenic, and resort destinations are packed out, and hotel prices often double. Transport prices may also rise. So the best idea is to a big city before the holiday starts (when transport will be packed), stay there until the middle (when the usual transport discounts are available and almost no one is moving), then move to another big city and stay still until it's all over. Overall that week is best avoided, but it's by no means impossible to deal with. Peter N-Hhttp://www.datasinica.com thanks all for the reply Peter, by " Overall that week is best avoided", did u mean the first week of october? so I presume me going on 11th october is ok? |
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going to china october 11th - but.....
In article cfe00c51-d4be-44cd-969c-
, nick chan says... so I presume me going on 11th october is ok? 11th October is ok. -- Alfred Molon http://www.molon.de - Photos of Asia, Africa and Europe |
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going to china october 11th - but.....
nick chan wrote:
so I presume me going on 11th october is ok? Upmarket hotels in Beijing and Shanghai tend to be very busy that week due to conferences and exhibitions season beginning, and the tail end of the people with lots of disposable income and able to please themselves on holiday to the tune of an extra week. But if you're not looking to be in a Peninsula, Shangri-La, or Hyatt, not a problem. And weather-wise a good time to be travelling, too. Peter N-H http://www.datasinica.com |
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