{"id":348,"date":"2010-07-05T14:24:42","date_gmt":"2010-07-05T14:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/?p=348"},"modified":"2010-09-11T04:44:46","modified_gmt":"2010-09-11T04:44:46","slug":"dont-come-aboard-the-black-tour-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/beijing-travel\/beijing-tourist-traps\/dont-come-aboard-the-black-tour-bus","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t come aboard the &#8221; black &#8221; tour bus!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_349\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-349\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Great-Wall-Bus-Tour.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-349\" title=\"Great Wall Bus Tour\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Great-Wall-Bus-Tour-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Great-Wall-Bus-Tour-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Great-Wall-Bus-Tour.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-349\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;He who has not climbed the Great Wall is not a true man&quot; Mao Zedong.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">In Beijing, there are some illegal tour buses\u00a0offering day\u00a0tours to the Great Wall. You will have a terrible trip once you get on it. To promote their illegal tours, these sales people\u00a0hand out\u00a0business cards to passing-by travelers who want to go to the Great Wall tour around some big destinations like Tiananmen Square, the entrance of Forbidden City&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Very often they use their &#8220;unbelievable low price&#8221; to attract those &#8220;blind&#8221; tourists. But once you come aboard their bus for the Great Wall, they have to make you pay additional fees again and again. Sometimes even the Great Wall is not real Badaling section!! You are kindly advised not to take their card if you happen to meet them. Most of the black tour buses don&#8217;t offer English speaking tour guide service.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">These organised tours by hotels or local tour operators with English speaking tour guide\u00a0service\u00a0are a good introduction to the sights, especially to non-Chinese speakers.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">I suggest that you use the slightly more expensive yet reliable\u00a0organized bus tours through your hotel, or\u00a0local tour operators.\u00a0Avoid Taxis and private individual tour guide, a promise means nothing!<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Though there are some shopping stops on these organized tours and\u00a0it can be annoying, no real pressure to buy and just be polite, decline, and move on. So don&#8217;t be put off by these stops. Keep a sense of humour and just remember although they want to sell you something you don&#8217;t have to buy. <\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 In Beijing, there are some illegal tour buses\u00a0offering day\u00a0tours to the Great Wall. You will have a terrible trip once you get on it. To promote their illegal tours, these sales people\u00a0hand out\u00a0business cards to passing-by travelers who want to go to the Great Wall tour around some big destinations like Tiananmen Square, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beijing-tour-reviews","category-beijing-tourist-traps","category-beijing-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions\/351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}