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Are you looking for cheap flights and affordable packages to Beijing from New York City USA? As local travel advisors in Beijing, we are delighted to assist you planning your New Yourk Beijing tour from choosing your New York Beijing round trip air-tickets, Beijing airport pckup service, discount Beijing hotels, guided Beijing tour packages, to offering Beijing free travel tips and more.
Nowadays visitors are very easy to get the basic travel information on any destination and country they are going to explore. New York Beijing independent travel can be made possible if you grasp some basic travel information and ready to face the challenges ahead.
Thinking of the best time to visit Beijing and other parts of China. Of course, the best time must be selected with your travel schedule (considering your family matters, your work and other factors which may affect your yearly travel plan). Apart from these factors on your side, you must think of the best time to travel Beijing China in terms of crowds, prices, weather and personal interests, events, festivals etc. Normally April, May, September and October are the best months for Traveling in Beijing and other major destinations in China. Try to avoid China national holidays: Chinese Lunar New Year (later jan to early Feb), May 1-3 First Labour Day, October 1-7 National Day…
Once you settle your travel time to visit Beijing, the important next is to reserve your international flights from New Your to Beijing. The round trip air-tickets make up the large bulk of your travel expenses. To get cheap air-tickets is the key factor to reduce your travel budget. So to find a right air-ticket booking agent is very important. Your flight will depart from John F. Kennedy International Airport and arrive at Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK) in Beijing, and vice versa for the return flight. If you have a familiar flight booking agent, try to go on with your booking with it since your agent is familar with your travel request and will offer you reasonable airfare entitled to a loyal client. Or you may try online flight booking logging on to such flight booking engines as expedia, cheapflights.com, cheapflights.com, orbitz.com… Or you may visit the official websites of the airliens you are going to use and book online directly without middlemen. American Airlines, Cathay Pacific, UNITED, Continenta, Aeroflot-Russian Airlines, China Eastern Airlines, Air China, Turkish Airlines, Lufthansa… Avoid the local student vacation time since the huge number of Chinese students returning home will great raise the airfares.
Where to stay in Beijing? Beijing has hundreds of rated hotels, plus numerous hostels, courtyard hotels, B&B hotels and boutique hotels
At present there are three terminals – T3, T2 and T1. Most of the international flights arrive at T3 and T2. T2 and T1 are connected by a corridor. T3 is a little far from both T2 and T1. There is a Free Inter-Terminal Shuttle Buses connecting T3, T2 and T1. T3 is the largest single terminal in the world. Please make sure at which terminal you are arriving or departing to avoid a wrong terminal.
Generally speaking, getting around in Beijing is quite convenient. In the past 30 years, Beijing transportation has been improved gradually and greatly – widened roads, lengthened subway lines, more clean buses, more environmentally friendly taxis etc.
But like any other metropolitan cities worldwide, you will hit a traffic jam in a peak hour. So try to avoid rush hours and well schedule your airport transfer to avoid possible delay.
We have cut Beijing into 6 parts ( Central Beijing, Houhai & North Beijing, South Beijing, Northeast Beijing, West Beijing and Northwest Beijing) where you can find precisely where and in which hotel you want to stay, and what to see and do.
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Traveling is also a way of learning. Beijing, of course, is a world of difference from your hometown. Having some empathy or putting yourself in “Beijing’s shoes” is highly recommended. So it is necessary to have for some basic facts and travel tips about Beijing before leaving for Beijing.
| Visa | Accommodations | Customs |
| Climate | Communicating | Business Hours |
| Money | Changing money | Credit cards |
| Phony Money | Radio and TV | Publications |
| Telephone | Post Office | Medical Services |
| Electricty | Water | Laundry |
| Transportation | Beijing Time | Cheap flights to Beijing |
| Beijing Travel Advice |
Whether you are a very independent traveler or a frequent travel agency users (there are pros and cons to this approach), when traveling Beijing, it is a good idea to mix independent travel with private or group tour to make the most out of your Beijing short trip since Beijing has too much to see and do.
So, to purchase a Beijing tour package from a local travel agency, you’ll get much history and fresh knowledge of Beijing from a local Chinese speaking or English-speaking tour guide. We organize Beijing tour from the moment you touch down at your airport to when we transfer you back there at the end of an exciting vacation. Or you may select any of the travel service from us including transport, day trips, great wall tours, hotels, meals, night shows, and tour guides.
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