The North Garden Hotel, Beijing

Advantages: To Have Been There
Disadvantages: No Wild Birds

.... The opera visit lasted around one hour and we were all relieved to get back to our comfortable hotel lobby and listen to the excellent female pianist and base player playing tuneful Western classical music as we sipped a few glasses of cold Chinese white wine before bed. I gather there is some debate as to whether The Great Wall is the only man-made structure that can be seen from space. It stretches for over three and a half thousand miles from the Yellow Sea to the Gobi Desert. It was begun in the 5th Century BC built in small stretches then linked together at the end of the 3rd Century BC unifying the whole of China. As I climbed the steep worn steps on this hot day determined to reach the fourth tower on this minute restored section at Badaling Pass forty-four miles north of Beijing I thought about the forced labour of millions of people who... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful

Advantages: wonder full service
Disadvantages: a little noise arrounding

...a good hotel in beijing i think ,the charge is not very expensive ,good service and it is convienent to get many famous place from hotel,very capacious and bright room,good service facilities,the workers can give you a excellent help and they are always ready to help you .if you are a foreigner from all over the world ,when you get beijing ,you can give them a call and they will arrange the car to receive you if possible. of ourse this fees will be included in your staying charge ,but very little . it is easy for you to call a taxi when you come out of the hotel.usually,you can ask the workers in the hotel to help you ,and they can help you to bargin with them and save you much... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: Frenzied energy of chaotic city, many worldclass tourist attractions, delicious food, incredibly safe & ridiculously cheap.
Disadvantages: Gruesome pollution, occasional racism targeting foreigners & lack of freedom for those who take an organised tour (not recommmended).

...for a second as you stand on top that this hill is manmade, created by the giant heap of earth dug to create the Forbidden City’s moat. The trees and flowers are pretty and at the top you get a decent cooling breeze which can be very welcome on muggy summer’s days. The Summer Palace There are actually two Summer Palaces in Beijing – an old one and a new one. The new one is a hell of a lot bigger and is mostly intact. The old one is mainly ruined, but to my mind far more interesting and much more characterful. Both can be reached by taking a metro to the north western corner of the loop line and then changing to all sorts of buses (see LP or ask someone at your hotel). Alternatively take a taxi, but it could cost 40-50 RMB each way or even more. The two aren’t so far from each other and could be done together, but both (especially... Read review

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