China on the Cheap

07-17-2012

 China on the Cheap—with Deluxe Hotels

Bellevue, WA, July 17,, 2012—The popular tour operator China Spree is known for “first class travel at bargain prices,” but this time they’ve outdone themselves.  Starting in November, the 9-day Winter Special package, A Tale of China’s Two Great Cities, costs only $999 from San Francisco ($100 more from New York) and visits both imperial Beijing and cosmopolitan Shanghai.

 

This amazing two-city package includes transpacific air fare; intra-China flights, transfers and transportation; accommodation in 4-star hotels; daily American buffet breakfasts; three lunches; sightseeing tours of Beijing and Shanghai with entrance fees; and English-speaking professional tour guides. 

 

Beijing and Shanghai could be called China’s Washington and New York, except that they are light years ahead in architecture, transportation and infrastructure.   Hotels, too, are spectacular, and China Spree has chosen two deluxe hotels—Traders Hotel Beijing by Shangri-La and Shanghai Ocean Hotel—that are well-located, beautifully decorated and equipped with all modern conveniences.

 

Guided sightseeing in Beijing includes Tiananmen Square, world’s largest public square; the Forbidden City, a 9,999-room palace from which 24 emperors ruled the Middle Kingdom; the Sacred Way of Ming Tombs; China’s most renowned monument, the Great Wall; the Temple of Heaven; the idyllic Summer Palace and its famed Marble Boat; and a look at the Bird Nest Olympic stadium.  There’s also an optional excursion: a rickshaw ride through Old Beijing’s hutongs (old neighborhoods of narrow alleys and courtyard houses), followed by lunch in a family home, a tour of beautiful Beihai Park and a special Peking Duck dinner.

 

In Shanghai, once called the “Paris of the East,” sightseeing includes the famous colonial-era Bund, the modernistic skycrapers of Pudong, and the Shanghai Wax Museum to learn the history of the city.  There are also optional excursions: dinner and the Shanghai Acrobatics Show; Suzhou’s gardens, canals, and silk mill and the charming water town of Tongli;  and Shanghai’s 16^th-century bazaar, museum and cruise on the Huangpu River.

 

All prices quoted are the cash discount rate, are per person double occupancy and are subject to availability.  The non-stop flight from San Francisco starts at $999, from Los Angeles $1,049 and from New York $1,099.  Air fare add-ons are available from dozens of other cities. 

 

For additional information and reservations, log onto www.chinaspree.com and click China Tours, then Winter Specials.  China Spree’s toll-free telephone number is 855-556-6868.

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