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Beijing to Hong Kong

  • 17-01-2010 6:10pm
    #1
    cormaclynch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 178 ✭✭


    Hi All,

    We're going to SE asia in May. Original plans were to fly into Bangkok travel around for 6 weeks then fly to Oz from Singapore.

    We'd like to go to Beijing though and see the great wall. Adds a lot to the flight prices flying Beijing to Bangkok. Just wondering if anyone has travelled over land to Hong Kong from Beijing?

    How did you do it and would you recommend it. I see the train takes a full 24 hours to complete. Cant see us doing that in one hit!

    Any advice appreciated

    Cheers


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  • #2
    Yitzhak Rabin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,225 ✭✭✭Yitzhak Rabin


    cormaclynch wrote: »
    Hi All,

    We're going to SE asia in May. Original plans were to fly into Bangkok travel around for 6 weeks then fly to Oz from Singapore.

    We'd like to go to Beijing though and see the great wall. Adds a lot to the flight prices flying Beijing to Bangkok. Just wondering if anyone has travelled over land to Hong Kong from Beijing?

    How did you do it and would you recommend it. I see the train takes a full 24 hours to complete. Cant see us doing that in one hit!

    Any advice appreciated

    Cheers

    I lived in Hong Kong for a while and travelled to Beijing from there several times. The travel agents in Hong Kong offer really good deals, but you kinda need to call into their offices.

    The cheapest airline as far as I can remember was Dragon air, and Air China. Both should have websites.

    Also its worth looking at www.lastminute.hk for deals.

    Hope this helps!


  • #3
    Yitzhak Rabin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,225 ✭✭✭Yitzhak Rabin


    Actually its lastminute.com.hk

    Bear in mind the packages are in Hong Kong Dollars. Not sure of the exact exchange rate, but divide by 10 and you'll get close enough.


  • #4
    biZrb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 617 ✭✭✭biZrb


    The trains are pretty nice to travel in in China, they have sleeper carriages and its fine to spend 24 hours in one. There are different classes but generally the 2nd class sleepers are cheaper but much less private than the first class. You won't be able to pre-book it until about 5 days before your journey though.

    Or you could go half way on a train that runs at night to break the journey up a bit.

    But it would be a lot cheaper to go by train than flying, train travel is pretty cheap considering the distance you cover.


  • #5
    bourgeois
    Closed Accounts Posts: 25 ✭bourgeois


    Any updates on how your travelling through China went?

    I'm looking at taking two weeks there to travel from HK to Shanghai to Beijing and then to Hanoi all by train with a few days stop off in each. Should cost between 400 and 500 which isn't too bad for the amount of mileage covered.


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