Guidu Hotel Beijing

Travel Blogs from Beijing

Getting to Beijing - in style!

A travel blog entry by lindb

... be at least 100 business class seats. Not only do you have a lie flat bed, large screen tv but your on little shoe storage area, mattress, mini bar (no booze but soft drinks and water). It is rather plush...I didn't use the bar at the back, but on a really long haul flight this would be a place to hang out for a while. The food - well as it was 4 am when I got on the plane I really didn't fancy anything to eat, but ...

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A travel blog entry by tracy-andy-pez

... the outside covered in beautiful real red rose petals, very pretty. Ray took us out for lunch to a fab Peking Duck restaurant which had been recommended to us, the duck was very tasty, and a beer to wash it down with. In the evening we went out for a pizza later on at the Tube Station where we went for Andy's Birthday, but went for the little one this time. Met our friend Ali at our usual pub after & I had a couple of Long Island Iced ...

Hanging in the "New" Jing

A travel blog entry by cindy-hinds

... 1421, many more of the historical structures remain. Nanjing has been razed and ransacked so many times over the centuries that almost everything but the ancient city wall is gone. In contrast, the landmarks around Beijing have become the symbols of China that we are familiar with: the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, the “Bird’s nest” Olympic Stadium, etc. (*Just as a footnote: Beijing and Nanjing continued to flip-flop the duties ...

Bye Bye Beijing

A travel blog entry by jokertrekker

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... a tough one for the oldies but we managed it ok. Back down at Kunming lake level we went through a museum with Palace artifacts. We then moved along the rest of the corridor to Cixi's marble boat, then enjoyed a pleasant walk out the northern path back to to van.
Our next tour was a Hutong tour in ...

National Children's Day

A travel blog entry by seressmith

... did not have time to go through the entire zoo but were very happy to have met one of the highlights of the trip.

We had dinner again in the round table set up. The kids eat lunch together and dinner with the adults. We like to make sure they are eating something. This was the night that we had the fish that we showed you the picture of - very interesting.

We went to a Kung Fu performance this night. It was a great show with a story line, ...