Hotels in Beijing - Prices and Reviews

We're on the bus with our guide Rose heading from the airport to our hotel in Beijing.

We made it safely through all temperature scanners. No health officials came on our plane.
We're all tired, but it helps to know the Red Sox won their game while we were flying over the Arctic.

Til later...
Nick, Carol, and the girls
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For all our Beijing adventures, click here. For our Olympic experiences, including photos and video, go here.

So today we saw a jade factory, temples and of course THE GREAT WALL!:) The wall was sooo nice and HUGE! Dad had a hard time going up it! I made him climb a LOT of stairs. The mountains where gorgeous and it was quite the experience. I got asked to get my picture taken again like 20 times, no joke. Apparently im something really special here. Ev...

....literally. As China has not yet been introduced to the wonderful world of litigation, they see fit or perhaps find it comical to put random uneven steps everywhere. Either that or they will have a hole in the middle of the sidewalk for no apparent reason. The don't like to use even concrete sidewalks because stone gravel will do just fine. I...

How better to experience a holiday that's foreign to you, than to dive in with both feet into a real local celebration. I had gone on several websites regarding Beijing events for the Spring Festival, and each talked about "Temple Fairs." It also should be noted that almost all the sites also made fun of the Temple Fairs for being very cheesy an...

So....having said goodbye to the luxury and calm of OZ we felt ready to tackle the challenges of China. From our experiences so far I think we may have underestimated how many there would be! After the fairly long flight we arrived into Beijing around 8pm. We passed up the option of a very expensive airport pickup and found ourselves successfull...

Leo Hostel runs a "Secret Wall Tour" which goes to a part of the Great Wall where you're more or less guaranteed not to see any other tourists - mostly we think because the other tourists aren't willing to schlep 3 kilometres through a vertical jungle encountering angry locals wielding snakes on sticks, wishing us a bad journey! Turns out our gu...