Official China Thread (Macau, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, etc) - Page 51

kailong · 05-19-2010, 11:44 AM

Regarding visas... If you have an F visa, there are agencies that can extend your visa for 6 mo. for 2500RMB.

However, if you have multiple entry F visa with 90 day duration of stay for each visit, a run to HK is probably your best bet.

If you want to save money, you can go by train straight from BJ. One way train ticket to HK from BJ in hard berth (6 bunks per cabin [3 bunks on each side] and cabins open to the corridor) is 504RMB according to http://search.huochepiao.com/chaxun/...?txtCheCi=T97B, but I just bought a ticket today at Beijing West station for 454RMB. The train takes about 24 hours, leaving at 1:08pm and arriving at 12:56pm the following day. If you want a more comfortable trip, soft berths are ~800RMB. They have only 2 bunk beds on each side of the cabin, and the cabin is closed to the corridor, i.e. more private.

smooth101 · 05-19-2010, 12:58 PM

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Originally Posted by kailong

Regarding visas... If you have an F visa, there are agencies that can extend your visa for 6 mo. for 2500RMB.

However, if you have multiple entry F visa with 90 day duration of stay for each visit, a run to HK is probably your best bet.

If you want to save money, you can go by train straight from BJ. One way train ticket to HK from BJ in hard berth (6 bunks per cabin [3 bunks on each side] and cabins open to the corridor) is 504RMB according to http://search.huochepiao.com/chaxun/...?txtCheCi=T97B, but I just bought a ticket today at Beijing West station for 454RMB. The train takes about 24 hours, leaving at 1:08pm and arriving at 12:56pm the following day. If you want a more comfortable trip, soft berths are ~800RMB. They have only 2 bunk beds on each side of the cabin, and the cabin is closed to the corridor, i.e. more private.

Wow perfect. This is the kind of information I need. Thanks

badblue · 05-20-2010, 12:03 AM

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Originally Posted by smooth101

Wow perfect. This is the kind of information I need. Thanks

pay for the soft

smooth101 · 05-20-2010, 12:32 AM

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Originally Posted by badblue

pay for the soft

K. Thx.

Hey, does anyone know when the best time to go to Hong Kong. Like when is it cheaper? Are there specific times that are a very nice time to go?

entertainme · 05-20-2010, 10:14 AM

It's pretty much always nice in HK. If you're looking for inexpensive, I'd look into a hostel. Hotel rooms are not cheap. Dragon Boat festival is June 16.

smooth101 · 05-20-2010, 10:50 AM

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Originally Posted by entertainme

It's pretty much always nice in HK. If you're looking for inexpensive, I'd look into a hostel. Hotel rooms are not cheap. Dragon Boat festival is June 16.

Yea, I might do something like that.

Dannykurttt · 05-20-2010, 12:42 PM

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Originally Posted by PRoMaNiaC

hey people, what internet company do you use? I'm having terrible connection problems in Guangzhou with loads of disconnections each day and I'm pretty sick of it...

China tel, I pay 2800 rmb for a year. Its a decent service

laserboy · 05-20-2010, 01:21 PM

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Originally Posted by smooth101

K. Thx.

Hey, does anyone know when the best time to go to Hong Kong. Like when is it cheaper? Are there specific times that are a very nice time to go?

The sooner the better, before the weather gets any hotter. Going outdoors in Hong Kong in the summer is like stepping into a sauna. You're drenched in your own sweat the second you step outside.

entertainme · 05-20-2010, 03:55 PM

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Originally Posted by laserboy

The sooner the better, before the weather gets any hotter. Going outdoors in Hong Kong in the summer is like stepping into a sauna. You're drenched in your own sweat the second you step outside.

Total lapse on my part. This is correct.

GreenSmoke85 · 05-24-2010, 02:46 AM

Will be in Macau / HK in about a week with a friend who lives there, are there any 2p2 there currently.

Will there be anyone for the next monthish PM and let me know

PRoMaNiaC · 05-24-2010, 09:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Dannykurttt

China tel, I pay 2800 rmb for a year. Its a decent service

Thanks, ordered today, 4MB right? I guess in a few days they will come to install. Until now I had from Guangdong network or something similar for 880rmb a year which I don't recommend at all, each day it seems to work worse, today it disconnects like each 15min... can't even watch lost lol, pathetic. Of course it was thanks to a Chinese from my office which thought I would be so happy under the cheapest connection

I hope the china tel at least doesn't disconnect for me

ouam · 05-25-2010, 12:00 PM

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Originally Posted by smooth101

Wow perfect. This is the kind of information I need. Thanks

if have nothing to do in hongkong, you can even make your visa at the border with hong kong, in shenzhen. basically what u do is just go outside china in shenzhen, as if u were going to hongkong, then, u go through the hong kong border and u do as if u were going to take the train to hong kong, but u dont. there is a starbucks cofee there, and just next to it is a CTS agency. they can make u a 3 months visa here in a couple hours for 500 hkd (2 entries = 750HKD). all u have to do is apply for the visa before 4pm (a little before because making the correct photo plus paperwork takes you half an hour)

this way u can save some time, and money coz shenzhen is a lot cheaper than hong kong in every possible ways.

All this information was valid in april 2010 since this is what i did then...

GreenSmoke85 · 05-25-2010, 03:43 PM

As a Canadian travelling to HK is it easy adn how long is the proces to getting my Visa to travel in China(mainland), I wanna do this in HK, if thats not obvious as I have no time to do it here.

Leaving in like 10 hours, man I'm the worst planner ever.

entertainme · 05-25-2010, 03:58 PM

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Originally Posted by GreenSmoke85

As a Canadian travelling to HK is it easy adn how long is the proces to getting my Visa to travel in China(mainland), I wanna do this in HK, if thats not obvious as I have no time to do it here.

Leaving in like 10 hours, man I'm the worst planner ever.

If you get it in to the tarvel agency in the morning and pay a higher fee, they can often return your passport with the visa in the evening. Sometimes your hotel will have a travel desk that can do it, or you can go do it yourself. I've used both my hotel service and gone to the China Travel Service office. There's one right off Nathan Road.

ouam · 05-25-2010, 11:14 PM

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Originally Posted by GreenSmoke85

As a Canadian travelling to HK is it easy adn how long is the proces to getting my Visa to travel in China(mainland), I wanna do this in HK, if thats not obvious as I have no time to do it here.

Leaving in like 10 hours, man I'm the worst planner ever.

i've done the visa stuff in hong kong with an agency named fbt in the new mandarin plaza in kowloon, if u give ur visa before 9 in the morning and pay 350hkd u can get a 3 month tourist visa and pick it up at 2 in the afternoon. this is working for french passport, dont know canadian. i guess if u leave ur passport later in the day u can pick up ur visa in the evening but never tried it. pretty happy with this company and i think they are slightly cheaper than hotels and CTS. they have a website with a map so easy to find.