First Visit to China
Discussion
Unsure of this should be in business or travel !
We have been buying from China for more than 20 years and have a good understanding of buying , importing etc but have never actually visited.
I though it was about time I went out and wanted to get some advise on travel from any regular visitors.
1) I have around 5 suppliers to visit spread over a wide area, I want to make the trip as quick as possible and do not want to get caught out with transit times etc, Do folk arrange all travel themselves or do travel companies exist that sort your entire travel plans for you, ie : I need to go here , here and here, whats my route etc, if so any recommendations of such companies.
2)Travel money, do you just carry a small amount of currency and depend on cards ?
3)Translation : Most of the factory owners I deal with do not speak English but their staff do so would translate for me, Is it worth having a Chinese travel companion for translation just to get about for the time out there ? If so any agencies out there to recommend.
4) Any other advise, who to fly with, business, premium economy etc, best way to travel once there ?
THANKS ALL !
We have been buying from China for more than 20 years and have a good understanding of buying , importing etc but have never actually visited.
I though it was about time I went out and wanted to get some advise on travel from any regular visitors.
1) I have around 5 suppliers to visit spread over a wide area, I want to make the trip as quick as possible and do not want to get caught out with transit times etc, Do folk arrange all travel themselves or do travel companies exist that sort your entire travel plans for you, ie : I need to go here , here and here, whats my route etc, if so any recommendations of such companies.
2)Travel money, do you just carry a small amount of currency and depend on cards ?
3)Translation : Most of the factory owners I deal with do not speak English but their staff do so would translate for me, Is it worth having a Chinese travel companion for translation just to get about for the time out there ? If so any agencies out there to recommend.
4) Any other advise, who to fly with, business, premium economy etc, best way to travel once there ?
THANKS ALL !
I need to get to several places, I dont know if they work on postal / Zip codes etc as the details I have may be a bit vague for planning a trip,
I would be going to Yancheng City Jiangsu Province, Wenzhou City, Suzhou City, Oubei Town Wenzhou City, Lishui City and Shandong
Im pretty sure I would need some type of China travel expert company to set my route and plan if I fly, train, car from each location.
I would be going to Yancheng City Jiangsu Province, Wenzhou City, Suzhou City, Oubei Town Wenzhou City, Lishui City and Shandong
Im pretty sure I would need some type of China travel expert company to set my route and plan if I fly, train, car from each location.
Bringing this thread back up as I am a little clearer on my plan now, I intend to travel to Shanghai to use that as a base, It appears I need to go north and south of Shanghai.
My First visits are in Wenzhou and Lishui, I have found the website www.travelchinaguide.com which has a train table guide on it which has been useful.
Not sure what internal flights are like but im a fearful guy so instead of an hour flight to Wenzhou im going to take 4.1/2 hour train, although fully reclining seats in business class look pretty cool.
From Wenzhou I need to go to Suzhou which is about an hour out of Shanghai although can get a train from Wenzhou to Suzhou.
Was wondering if anybody has been to either Wenzhou or Suzhou and can recommend anything.
In addition to all the good advise given last year can anybody comment on :
Airlines to use from London to Shanghai, does the journey have to have a stop over, Is it always Hong Kong ? What class to travel ? Im sure the airlines differ so much from one to other so maybe something like premium economy on one very good airline is not a million miles from business on another ?
Hotels to recommend in Shanghai, It seems for £100.00 ish per night I am in the 5 star bracket ! ?
Hotels in Wenzhou or Suzhou if by chance anybody has been there ?
My First visits are in Wenzhou and Lishui, I have found the website www.travelchinaguide.com which has a train table guide on it which has been useful.
Not sure what internal flights are like but im a fearful guy so instead of an hour flight to Wenzhou im going to take 4.1/2 hour train, although fully reclining seats in business class look pretty cool.
From Wenzhou I need to go to Suzhou which is about an hour out of Shanghai although can get a train from Wenzhou to Suzhou.
Was wondering if anybody has been to either Wenzhou or Suzhou and can recommend anything.
In addition to all the good advise given last year can anybody comment on :
Airlines to use from London to Shanghai, does the journey have to have a stop over, Is it always Hong Kong ? What class to travel ? Im sure the airlines differ so much from one to other so maybe something like premium economy on one very good airline is not a million miles from business on another ?
Hotels to recommend in Shanghai, It seems for £100.00 ish per night I am in the 5 star bracket ! ?
Hotels in Wenzhou or Suzhou if by chance anybody has been there ?
Virgin Upper looks amazing but at over 5K for a return flight OMG ! Hoping some lesser business class providers are lower
sgrimshaw said:
Virgin Upper Class was my preference for London - Shanghai.
Suzhou is nice, the area around Jinji Lake is safe and has lots of good hotels and western style restaurants.
Suzhou is nice, the area around Jinji Lake is safe and has lots of good hotels and western style restaurants.
Interesting, I noted using a flight checker that lots state stopover in PEK, Whats the problem with that then 
[quote=Shaoxter]For direct flights I'd stick with Virgin or BA, Air China is OK but try and avoid China Eastern... And I'd recommend sticking to direct flights, under no circumstances do a stopover in PEK!
[quote=Shaoxter]For direct flights I'd stick with Virgin or BA, Air China is OK but try and avoid China Eastern... And I'd recommend sticking to direct flights, under no circumstances do a stopover in PEK!
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