Hotels in Beijing - Prices and Reviews

Hey everyone, I told someone recently that my life tends to take bizarre and random turns. This week has done little to dispel this notion and has, on the contrary, only confirmed it. So here is the Tuesday to Thursday recap. Tuesday: Once again I will let the photos speak for themselves. I took the bus to Tiananmen Square and had a really fanta...

Beijing is amazing. The buildings are amazing, Tianamen Square is amazing, the people are amazing, the food is amazing, the beer is amazing (-ly cheap) and the toilets are squat down and not amazing. Tomorrow we'll be climbing the Great Wall so tonight is gonna be an early night as opposed to last night. We went to the bar district last night an...

The first month of traveling China is tough. The constant spitting, lack of apologies, invasion of personal space, stomach-turning cuisine and the immense language barrier are difficult things to get used to. The people: After traveling to Tibet, it was, at first, tough to respect the Chinese knowing that their government is alienating a culture...

A couple days ago, about 9 students went to the other end of the city to try some Southern Chinese cuisine. We went to a hot-pot restaurant, which is extremely similar to a fondue place in the states. You are given raw meat and vegetables as well as two types of broth, and you stick the meat in the broth in order to cook it. The difference is th...

This day wasn't the best. We arrived in Beijing after an early morning flight with the idea of getting straight to our hotel to clean up and rest up for our long trip to central Russsia that we were leaving on the next day. Only when we met up with our travel agent contact in Beijing we discovered that he had booked the wrong tickets out of Beij...