The Xinqiao Novotel Beijing hotel is in a great location and is ideally located in the central district of Beijing. The great thing is that you have a subway station at your doorstep which gives you access to line 5 and line 2. With subway tickets at just 2rmb you have most of your Beijing [...]

At the end of June I wrote about how the expected hotel operator Olympic cash bonanza does not look like happening. More recent articles doing the rounds in the press are further pushing that point. In what is good news for visitors to the China Olympics the prices for hotel rooms seem to be coming [...]

There has been a bit of press coverage recently about how visitor numbers are down for visits to Beijing. For the month of May visitor numbers to Beijing, China were down by 15 per cent. This was the first drop in three years. The reason for the drop is said to be as a result [...]

Now imagine you have just arrived at the Beijing airport. You have started to walk off the airplane, what can you expect? You first need to collect your baggage and complete the immigration process. I remember the first time I did this it was quite intimidating. These guys were not the most friendly I have [...]

Built in a courtyard style, the Beijing Xi Jiao Hotel is a 3-star hotel providing quiet surroundings. Offering good service facilities, the Xi Jiao Hotel provides you with excellent services in all aspects of business, etiquette and travelling. The hotel boasts 365 various guestrooms including standard rooms, single rooms and suite rooms to meet the [...]

The address for this Beijing Hotel is 1 Sanlihe Road. It is also known as Xiyuan Hotel. The hotel is ideally located 1km from the Beijing Exibition Centre and is the same distance from the Beijing Observatory. The Beijing Zoo is also nearby. Amenities/services: Conference room with 150 capacity: 2 ballrooms to 250 people. Xiyuan [...]

The Beijing Olympics are now 457 days away. You may think that is a long time away and you would not need to start making travel plans just yet. You may think differently when I tell you that the tickets are now available for registration. From now until early July you can register your ticket [...]

In my opinion April and May are the best months to visit Beijing. It is a great time of year for several reasons. Number one is that the heat of summer has not arrived. Also the huge tourist crowds have not made their way to the capital. I also love the fact that the blossoms [...]

Yesterday I wrote about a bargain priced hotel in Beijing I had found during an internet search. It was $9 a night during August, unfortunately I found out today it was August 2007. As I have relatives in Beijing I did not go ahead and book the hotel yesterday. Today I was just too curious [...]

Today I was searching some hotel booking websites to see what the prices would be for a hotel during the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing. I came across a price that seems to be just too amazing to believe. From my HotelsCombined link I performed a search that requested hotels in Beijing for 5 August [...]