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3 Days Beijing Tours from Shanghai by Flight+G Train

Tour Route: Shanghai, Beijing, Shanghai

The Largest Sacrificial Ancient Building Group-Temple of Heaven,The Largest and The Most Integrated Imperial Garden-Summer Palace,Residence of China Emperor & One of The Five World Palaces-Forbidden City,Reasonable Tour Arrangement & Meals Quality Guarantee

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Daily
Private Tour
Day 1 Shanghai to Beijing

Pick up from your hotel in Shanghai and take early morning flight for Beijing.  Met and transferred to your Hotel in Beijing.

Then our guide will wait you at the lobby and take you to enjoy the lunch. After lunch, you will visit the Tiananmen Square. It's the largest square in the world, encompassing an area of 14 hectares, and measuring 865 meters north to south, and 500 and 370 meters east to west on the northern and southern ends respectively.

Next visit Forbidden City. The Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the Ming dynasty to the end of the Qing dynasty. It is located in the center of Beijing, China, and now houses the Palace Museum. For almost 500 years, it served as the home of emperors and their households, as well as the ceremonial and political center of Chinese government.

After that, you may take a famous Beijing food-Beijing Roast Duck as dinner.

Meals: Lunch, Dinner
Day 2 Beijing

First you will climb Mutianyu Great Wall, which is the best preserved section of the Great Wall. Climb up the Great Wall, well-known for the longest defense wall in the world.(Cable Car is optional). 
After lunch, visit Ming Tombs – Dingling, the mausoleum of Emperor Yongle who was the third emperor of the Ming Dynasty. He was the most famous historical figure among the Ming Emperors. 
Also you will visit the Longdi Superior Jade Gallery. It's a tourist bus stop on the way to the Great Wall. It was designed to feed tour groups in an attached restaurant and then hold them captive inside a sales exhibition warehouse after the set meal. (30 minutes)
Finally you will have an outdoor scene of the National Swimming Center. It’s one of the most dramatic and exciting venues to feature sporting events for the Beijing Olympics in 2008. 
When tour is over, you will be transferred back to your hotel by tour guide and driver.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Day 3 Beijing to Shanghai

In early morning visit the Temple of Heaven, the sacred altar for worshiping the God of Heaven in the world. Watch local people playing Taichi morning exercises. 
Take a rickshaw ride to visit old Hutong, you can see the ancient Beijing lanes and quadrangle houses that have been preserved for 700 years. 

After the tour, transferred to Beijing South Station and take G-train back to Shanghai. After you arrive in Shanghai, our driver will pick you up and take you back to hotel or apartment.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Travel Period 2-5 travelers 6-9 travelers
Dec.1- Feb.28 US$756 US$677
Mar.1- Nov.30 US$792 US$714

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. All arrangements and first admission/entrance fees of scenic spots specified in the itinerary.
2. Domestic airfare: Shanghai-Beijing; 2nd Class Soft Seat of G-train:Beijing-Shanghai.
3. Buffet breakfast, Chinese lunch or dinner as listed in the itinerary.
4. Well-equipped commercial vehicle with excellent private guide and driver accompanied on your tour between airports, train stations, scenic spots and hotels.
5. Travel Agency’s Liability Insurance with your tour inside China.
6. Chinese government taxes and the city construction fees on your travel tour.
7. Designated Four-Star hotels as specified in this itinerary.

1. China entry visa fees.
2. Meals not specified in the itinerary and extra and alcoholic or beverages during meals.
3. Tips for guides and drivers.
4. Personal expense: e.g. mini bar, personal telecommunications, laundry, excess baggage charges etc.
5. Excursions and activities not included in itinerary.

Interested in this itinerary but would like to make changes to the hotels, destinations, sites, or anything else? Contact us here to customize this itinerary just for you.

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.

I am planning a visit in May, how many days is the official labour day holidays? would it be too crowded?
Asked by James (Aug.30, 2012)

Lead to China Trip Advisor (Aug.30, 2012) replied:
The official Labor's Day lasts from May 1 st to May 3rd. It is really a high season for traveling. You can choose a later time or book your hotels in advance, everything will be OK.

I would like to know if it is easy to find Halal food around Beijing? How about the cost as compared to normal foods?
Asked by Clarissa (Jun.11, 2012)

Lead To China Trip Advisor (Jun.11, 2012) replied:
Hi there. Thank you for your question. It is very easy to find Halal Restaurants in Beijing. The price is a little (about RMB20) higher than normal food but not very expensive. And the detailed expense depend on your choices of the dishes.

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