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1 Day Beijing Tours from Shanghai by Overnight Train

Tour Route: Shanghai, Beijing, Shanghai

World famous site-Mutianyu Great Wall, World Largest Square & Flag-Raising Ceremony-Tiananmen Square,One of the Five World Palaces & China Cultural Treasury-Forbidden City,Comfortable Transfer Experience with Direct Train

BST-05
Daily
Private Tour
Day 1 Shanghai to Beijing by overnight train

You will be picked up from your hotel in Shanghai by our private car and tour guide, then transferred to Shanghai Railway Station. Our tour guide will assist you in finding the right platform and taking the right carriage of the train D306(21:15 - next day 07:30 am) for Beijing.

We offer four-bed cabin - people in the four-bed cabin using the public washing room. All the cabins equipped with small TV. Free hot water. Routine running of food cart selling bottled water, beer and snack. Clean dining car. Air-conditioned. Please be ready to have some daily necessities on hand like tooth paste, tooth brush, towel etc.

Meals: No Meal
Day 2 Beijing to Shanghai by overnight train

Your train arrives in Beijing at 07:55 am. Please get ready and don't forget your personal belongings on the train. Holding a signboard in your name, our tour guide in Beijing is expecting you in front of your carriage on the platform inside the train station.

After disemaking the train, you are first arranged to have the excurson tour of Mutianyu Great Wall(cable car is optional). The Mutianyu Great Wall is the most beautiful section of the all 5 sections of the Great Wall in Beijing. The hike takes about 2-3 hours.

After lunch, drive back to the city center of Beijing to visit Forbidden City. The Forbidden City was the seat of Imperial power for 500 years, and is now a major tourist attraction in China. The total area of the complex is 183 acres, so it takes quite a while to walk through, especially if you want to have a close look at everything. All together there are 9,999 1/2 rooms in the Museum, not all of which can be visited.

Than move on to Tiananmen Square. It is the heart and symbol of Beijing and is the biggest square in the world. It is 500 meters wide ,880 meters long and the ground is paved with light granite slate disposed through special technology treatment. The flag-raising ceremony at sunrise and flag-lowering ceremony at sunset are the most magnificent rites.

After the tour, take the overnight the Train D 305 (21:40 - next day 07:55 am) back to Shanghai.

Meals: Lunch
Day 3 Arrival in Shangahi at 07:55am

Your train arrives in Shanghai at 07:55. Our tour guide in Shanghai will expect you in front of your train carriage, then take you to the car or van and transferred back to your hotel in Shanghai.

Meals: No Meals
Travel Period 2-5 travelers 6-9 travelers
Dec.1- Feb.28 US$425 US$404
Mar.1- Nov.30 US$446 US$420

1. The price is based on stay in China four star hotels. If you want to deduct, upgrade or downgrade the hotel, please indicate this while sending the inquiry.
2. You will enjoy more discounts if there is more people join the tour.
3. Prices may vary according to your travel time and are higher in the high season, e.g. Qingming Festival Holiday (Apr. 4 - 6, 2020 ), Labor's Day Holiday (May 1 - 3, 2020) ,Dragon Boat Festival Holiday (Jun. 25 - 27, 2020) and National Day Holiday (Oct 1- Oct 8, 2020).

1. Transportation in air-conditioned car, van or coach for your own use
2. Visit Mutianyu Great Wall and Forbidden City
3. lunch as listed
4. Your personal tour guide and driver
5. Shanghai-Beijing-Shanghai by overnight train
6. The above private escorted tour is customized for you, your family or your friends exclusively. No other travelers will join in your group.

Tips to your tour guide and driver

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It is flexible to change the duration, attractions, starting and ending cities according to your interests. Also the tour can be extended or shorten as your preference, just let your trip consultant know.
All of the tour packages exclude the international airfares. We suggest you can book it one your own. You can compare the price between OTAs (Expedia, Priceline, Sky scanner...) and the airlines. When you have a confirmed date, set alarm and compare it always.
As the China Visa, we cannot apply for you as we are an China inbound travel company. However, we can send you our invitation letter with our company's official seal to you after you booked the tour from us, which could assist you to get China Visa from China embassy easily. Usually, we suggest you to apply the visa about one month or one month and a half before your travel date.
For the breakfast, it is offered by the hotel you stay, usually Chinese and Western buffet breakfast. As for the lunch, we offer 80RMB per person for a standard Chinese meal at a nice tourist restaurant. If you want to order other kind of meals, such as vegetarian, Muslim meals, Indian Meals, please let your trip consultant know. Dinner usually will be left for you to choose the food you prefer. Our guide will help you to balance each meal such as your taboo, your preference and avoid repeated food. You have to pay for the extra cost if you want to take better or more. The meals on Yangtze Cruise are fixed Chinese and Western Buffet.
All the hotels can be replaced by your favorite ones or you can book your own hotels. And the hotel room we offered here usually is standard with twin beds. If you want to have king-size bed room or suite, please let your trip advisor know. Besides, all the accommodation are quoted on two persons sharing one room. The room supplement must be paid if you want to have a single room.
* Most hotels we offered in our tour package have WIFI in the lobby, and some of which have WIFI in hotel rooms. If you need the WIFI in your room, please make sure with your trip advisor.
We have non-shopping private tour and tour with carefully selected shops. For tour with shops, the price will be lower, and you will enter one or two shops in every tourist city. The shops could be jade, silk, pearl, Chinese tea etc., all of which have strong China's character and is worthy to buy. Each shop will take you around 45 minutes. We promise there is no compulsory consumption at all. You get the situation in your hands.
* Department stores, supermarkets, boutiques, hotel and restaurants in most cities of China do accept the credit card with the sigh of MasterCard, VISA and JCB. However, it does generate commission charge. Please check the regulations with your bank manager.
All domestic flight we offered is the economic class, which you can carry one hand-on luggage no more than 5 kg for free. The total of free registered luggage is no more than 20kg. Excess luggage will charge you some extra fees, be aware of that. The free registered luggage allowance in China domestic train is 20kg.
The insurance provided by us is called Travel Agencies' Liability Insurance, which covers accidents occurring during the activities arranged by travel agency. It does not cover mishaps or physical problems occurring outside the guided tour period or caused by clients themsevles, so we highly suggest you purchase the full coverage travel insurance from your country of origin.
For group of 1-4 passengers, recommend US$ 4-8 per tourist per day for guide, and US$ 2-5 per tourist per day for guide; for group of 5 and above, recommend US$ 2-5 per tourist per day for guide, and US$2-4 per tourist per day for driver. Besides, we highly recommend you to tip every day to encourage better service from them in the next coming days. However, if you have genuine reason not to tip, don't.
Usually, the deposit of tour package accounts for 30% of the total quotation, and the balance should be paid 30 days before your tour date. Payment methods we accept include Bank Transfer and PayPal, Credit Card and so on. More details you can check the Payment Guide page. Moreover, Children who are less than 12 y/o have their own discounts, please contact with your trip advisor.

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