Hilton Beijing

We are returning to China for our second year. This year we are travelling. We don't quite know where, but we do know it will be a grand adventure :) If you stop by and care to read an entry, rate us or leave a comment if you so desire.

... An, our guide.  He walks us through the airport to meet our driver, Xu Biao, and we proceed on to our hotel, the Hilton Beijing Wangfunjing.  Gerry smoothes the way for us at the hotel check-in and before we know it we are settled into our ...

... and give us a "free day" there, which is not ideal.  It's a big mess but the hotel we're staying at (Hilton Beijing Airport, compliments of the Cataldi's American Express gold membership) is very nice (another reason we want to just stay here). We'll ...

... , heaven on earth. Haha... Okay well, this is supposed to be about Beijing so let me get back to it. Aside from being smoggy, Beijing is a really fascinating city and I reckon I'm having too much fun. For one, this appears to be a shopper's heaven. My ...

... us.  We boarded the plane (Boeing 777) at 2030 and got settled in.  A couple behind us from Hilton Head, NC was going to Beijing to take a cruise; we had a good time throughout the flight.  The couple in front of us was ...

... nbsp;read and watch TV all day and night for both of us.  We called room service at about 2230 and had the Hilton Classic Hamburger with fries!  You heard it right; in China eating hamburgers.  After the burgers, it was back to ...

After checking into the beautiful Hilton Wangfujing, we took showers and had some breakfast. We checked out the pool, gym and executive lounge. Very impressed with this hotel, but no wifi in room is a let down. Also, Google talk and some Gmail features ...

... City was only opened up to tourism in the late 70s – including the Chinese as it was forbidden to all – so Beijing has grown from maybe 7 million to nearly 20 million in 30 years. Anyway, we meandered to the Summer Palace which has been ...

... in very good condition. The fare was very inexpensive but the other thing that surprised me was the amount of security I experienced in Beijing. Anytime you go into the subway you have to send your bags through a scanner. We arrived at the Temple of ...

... on. Easy flight but on domestic business class so not brilliant but a nice meal and no time zones which was a bonus. Beijing airport is similarly huge so we just followed the crowd and after more satellite trains, customs, immigration we picked up the ...

... to the Ming Tomb- Lots of important folks in fancy tombs- really cool, just outside the city. We were treated to a dose of Beijing driving which was pretty scary. I shrieked like a little girl several times. At one point we were actually on the wrong ...

... sister in law, Cong, who lives in Beijing, and whom I'll be able to spend a day with while I’m here. I made it to Beijing on Wednesday afternoon. My flight ended up leaving about an hour and a half late, so I arrived a little later than expected. I ...

... nothing but vendors cooking all types of fast food dishes on the spot for you. We stopped at the Beijing Foreign Language Bookstore and purchased three good books on China.  One of the salesperson tried to ...

... then paying to sit in traffic in a cab the four of us walked down to the subway and got back to our hotel that way.  Beijing's subway system was a shock to us - clean and nice.  All put in for the Olympics this year.  4 Yen and too many ...

... it was 1pm and we hadn't had lunch. We headed to a spot where Cong knew of a place that served Peking Duck (a specialty of Beijing). On the way we came across a pretty historic teahouse, The Lao She Teahouse. We decided to go inside and look around, it ...

Pagi ini kami tinggalkan kota Tunxi menuju Hangzhou airport untuk melanjutkan penerbangan menuju Beijing. Siang hari kami tiba di Beijing, Anda akan dijemput dan langsung diajak mengunjungi  Summer Palace yaitu Istana Musim Panas yang diperuntukkan ...

Day 66 Beijing – Forbidden City On the breakfast menus today were 'miscellaneous sheep soup', kebabs, and a whole host of Chinese & Japanese dishes – none of which really appealed this morning so we played safe. Again. But did get a fresh ...