5 Days Beijing Winter Vacation with Skiing and Hot Spring
Enjoyable and Active Winter Fun
Enjoyable and Active Winter Fun
You will fall in love with the winter of Beijing!
It’s true that Beijing's winter may be chilly, but there are many things making up for you – grandiose royal palaces covered with snow, Great Wall turning into white, bridges hanging over frozen lakes, fewer tourists, best prices, etc. If you travel Beijing in winter, you holiday can be active and fun. As the host of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, Beijing never bothered by lack of world-class ski resorts. No matter you are a beginner of skiing, or a skillful skier, you can find a suitable ski resort to seek for your own fun. There is also a special way to make you comfortable in Beijing’s cold winter, which is to enjoy a relaxing and sanative bath in a suburb hot spring resort.
In this specially-designed Beijing winter vacation, you will explore the World Cultural Heritage Sites hiding among the snow world and their cultural charms beneath their outlooks, also enjoy a marvelous hike on the Great Wall which will be covered by snow too. Furthermore, a valuable ski plan around 6 hours is covered in your vacation. You have opportunity to enjoy ski and other winter sports to the fullest in Jundushan Ski Resort which is one of the best ski resorts around Beijing with advantages of quality snow, flexible choices of ski tracks, considerate services. To warm your body and help you recover from Great Wall hiking, a hot spring treatment will be provided for you. What a magnificent vacation!
Day 1 Beijing Arrival
Airport or Railway Station Pick Up
Ni Hao, welcome to Beijing, the iconic city as well as the capital of China!
You will be met by your local tour guide at the arrival hall of Beijing Capital Airport, or railway station, then be escorted to check in your hotel in downtown by a private comfortable vehicle. The rest of today is on your own to relax. If you want to explore nearby, feel free to get some practical suggestions from your tour guide.
Arrival Ideas: At present, there are many international and domestic flights to Beijing. Besides, you can take a high speed train to this capital city from Shanghai (5-6 hrs), Xian (5.5 hrs), Guangzhou (8-9.5 hrs), etc.
Tour guide picked up our clients at Beijing airport
Day 2 Beijing ( B, L )
Tiananmen Square - Forbidden City - Summer Palace
After breakfast, start to explore the historical face of Beijing with a brief visit to Tiananmen Square, now the largest city plaza in the world. Tiananmen Gate on the northern side of the square was the site where Chairman Mao announced the establishment of the People's Republic of China.
Stepping into the Tiananmen, you will see one of the world's five most important palaces - Forbidden City (Palace Museum), a huge palace complex of more than 9,000 rooms where 24 emperors of the Ming and Qing Dynasties lived. Pass through various doorways in this magnificent structure to admire the beautiful and well-preserved buildings decorated with yellow-glazed tile roofs, white marble bases and splendid colorful paintings. After Forbidden City exploration, take a short visit to Jingshan Park where you can get a nice shot of one watchtower of Forbidden City and take a panoramic view of Forbidden City.
After lunch, drive to the outskirts of Beijing to spend an enjoyable time in the Summer Palace, the largest and best-preserved royal garden in China. Stroll around ancient pavilions, mansions, temples, bridges and corridors while feasting your eyes on the vast lotus in Kunming Lake and the colorful paintings in the Long Corridor.
Optional activities: 1) You can watch a wonderful Kungfu Show in the Red Theater (Hong Ju Chang) which usually starts at 19:30; 2) Enjoy the classic Chinese art performance of Beijing Opera at Liyuan Theater during 19:30-21:00.
Day 3 Beijing - Mutianyu Great Wall - Chunhuiyuan (B, L)
Mutianyu Great Wall - 798 Art Zone - Bird's Nest & Water Cube
This morning, you will drive about 70km (about 1.5 h) to witness one of the Seven Wonders of the World - Great Wall. The less-crowded Mutianyu, a well-preserved segment of Great Wall built in the Ming Dynasty, lives up to all of your nice expectations. You'll take a cable car to ascend the Great Wall, then hike the most beautiful and interesting part of Mutianyu. It's a wonderful experience to climb up its rising towers to enjoy scenic views and take brag-worthy photos of the wall wriggling along mountain ridges. After the exciting time, descend Mutianyu Great Wall by cable car. (Note: If energy permits, you can hike up or down which takes about 40 minutes to climb steps. Please tell your likes to your travel consultant.)
After Great Wall exploration, drive to relax your body in a Chunhuiyuan which is a beautiful resort of hot spring with beautiful natural views of surrounding as well as modern accommodation and dinning facilities. It is located on the bank of Wenyu River in Shunyi District, 20 miles north of Beijing. Its hot springs, with a comfortable temperature around 60 degrees, are ones of the best around Beijing which originate from the steam 1,800 meters under the ground, and full of naturally formed minerals which are good for bodily rehabilitation and relaxation. Spa is also available in the resort.
Accommodate in Chunhuiyuan Hot Spring Resort.
Day 4 Jundushan Ski Resort (B)
Full-day skiing in Jundushan Ski Resort at the suburb of Beijing
After breakfast in resort, drive about 25 km (about 45 mins) to Jundushan Ski Resort which is time-honored and one of the best ski resorts in Beijing with advantages of quality snow, flexible choices of ski tracks, considerate services. Here you can enjoy skiing, snowboard, riding sleds, inner tubes and snowmobiles, etc. Jundushan has multiple slopes for both beginners and intermediate skiers. Short lines on the easy hills make this a good place for beginners who will especially appreciate the conveyor belt lift if it’s your first time on skis. The top of the advanced hill has about 50 meters of moguls served by a disc lift. The fast turn-around time makes this a great place to perfect your mogul technique. The next stretch of hill is long and super steep. It reduces all but the most advanced skiers to big S curves.
Skiing package – our tour include a 6-hour ski plan covering ski resort entrance ticket, one set of ski equipment, cable car, towing device and usage of ski tracks. Skiing Suits, helmet, Ski goggles, Ski goggles, Snow Ring should be brought on your own, or rented in the resort. Skiing training course is available, which requires extra payment. If you want to ski more time, or want to enjoy in optional activities in the ski resort, please consult the resort staff or your tour guide.
Notice: Alpine skiing has corresponding requirements and standards for participants' physical fitness, psychological quality and awareness of rules. For the skiing safety of you and others, please choose a proper ski tracks matching your own skiing level when skiing; please consciously abide by the relevant safety regulations of the ski resort when skiing.
Day 5 Beijing Departure (B, L)
Temple of Heaven - Hutong - Beijing Departure
After breakfast, drive to the imperial site – Temple of Heaven. It was originally used to pay homage to Heaven and pray for harvest, now becomes a bustling place for locals to take part in traditional activities, such as Tai Chi, dancing, kite flying, water calligraphy, etc.
Then, hop on a rickshaw to experience Beijing Hutongs - small alleys made of neighboring quadrangle dwellings. Shuttle among different Hutongs to feel the old Beijing life style, meet various antique shops and small boutiques, feel the historical changes of Beijing, and also pay a visit to a local family's home in the traditional Hutongs. After Hutong local family visit, you will be given a class of China's Traditional Paper Cutting at Hutong area, and learn to cut some common motifs and characters under the instruction of a skillful Paper Cutting teacher.
Your Beijing tour is now about to end. Your tour guide will escort you to catch your flight/train to next destination.
1. This price is for one person, based on a group of 2 adults sharing one standard double-bed room in 4-star hotel and traveling with our private tour in low seasons.
2. This price is subject to change according your traveling season, group size, hotel class, change of activities in your itinerary and possible fluctuation of currency exchange rate. If you want a lower price, you can get more people to join you, or use economy class hotels.
3. This price is only valid to March 31, 2024.
4. Reference exchange rate of USD 1=RMB 6.85. The final quote is based on current exchange rate. It may change according to the currency fluctuation, while the RMB quotation will be remained the same.
Hello Wonder,
Loved the cruise - especially the included excursions, special arrangement for English speaking guides, new boat, and friendly service!
Claus
Dear Rita Jiang,
Thanks for your message. We have just landed back in Santiago and we are a bit "out" at the moment. We will come back again to you with some photos and more detailed comments. Now, just a summary: it was great, everything run smoothly and we are very happy to have arranged the travel with you. The problem with the hotel was just a human, understandable mistake and anyway it was arranged very promptly and well: the new room was also very good and the Maria´s guidance in Beijing was outstanding. The only "black spot" on the whole tour was the room in Shanghai: the hotel was great, very well located, breakfast very good, but the room they assigned to us was old, small and not in accordance to the hotel category. I think it was even small for a single person and the shower was just an old fixed thing inside the bathtube with cheap plastic courtains. I guess that is more a failure of the hotel itself, but we wanted to let you know. Anyway ,we had a very good time in Shanghai.
Jose
Hi Leo,
My Summary Comments:-
I must admit it is good fortune to be able to work with Leo to plan and arrange a short tour of preferred sights which I have not done before or to revisit from my previous visits around the Guilin area. Leo’s unfailing promptness to respond to my impromptu emailed enquiries and queries is commendable and helpful to effortlessly facilitate a fulfilling itinerary.
I have now completed a comfortable and absolutely satisfying three days trip with helpful and friendly guides and drivers and comfortable transport together with pleasant hotels accommodations.
Thank you Leo and also to your Chengdu Bamboo International Tours Co.Ltd.
Sum
Hi Wonder,
Please see my comments below.
1. Yes, the travel consultant was very fast in answering my email and very clear in his explanation.
2. The service of both tour guides in Chengdu and Jiuzhaigou was excellent, very impressed with the quality of the tour guides provided by your company.
3. Yes, will definitely recommend your company but pricing is a little on the high side given the quality of hotels provided.
Sai
Dear Wonder,
Thanks for organising our trip and we appreciated your prompt replies. It was a pleasant and wonderful trip to China.
Here, we would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to Nancy of Yichang. Our Yichang flight to Guangzhou was cancelled without notifying us. We arrived at the airport only to be informed of it. Nancy swiftly took action and changed our flight from Wuhan-Guangzhou and rushed us to the train station to take the high speed train to Wuhan. We managed to arrive in time and back in Kuala Lumpur now. Nancy proves to be a very efficient and reliable guide. Thanks!
Kristle
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Tour guide picked up our clients at Beijing airport
Woo's group visited Tiananmen Square
The Fudol Couple - Summer Palace
Beijing Fobidden City from Jingshan Park
Alex - Mutianyu Great Wall in Winter
Beijing Jundushan Ski Resort
Beijing Jundushan Ski Resort
Beijing Jundushan Ski Resort
Carsha's Group from USA - Beijing Hutong Rickshaw
Fantastic View of Temple of Heaven Shared by Our Guest Daniel
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