{"id":4340,"date":"2011-05-16T07:51:44","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T23:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/?p=4340"},"modified":"2013-05-03T17:55:26","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T09:55:26","slug":"london-bus-tours-vs-beijing-bus-tours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/beijing-travel\/london-bus-tours-vs-beijing-bus-tours","title":{"rendered":"London Bus Tours VS Beijing Bus Tours"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The city of London is rife with the red double-decker buses, one of the local cultural tradition of London. No wonder on the closing ceremony of\u00a0the Olympic Games 2008 in Beijing\u00a0a London\u00a0double-decker bus became\u00a0the main actor accompanied by the famous football\u00a0David Beckhamon on the stage ushering the\u00a0coming 2012 Olympic Games to be held in London. Now the red double-decker buses in London have become a national symbol of Britain.<\/span><\/div>\n
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There are two major London city bus tour companies, namely the Big Bus Company <\/strong>and the Original Bus Sightseeing Bus Company<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/div>\n
Slightly different from normal public double decker buses, these tourist oriented tour buses are\u00a0all open-top double buses running on\u00a0the fixed itineraries taking you to all of London’s famous landmarks and reveals London’s colourful 2,000-year history.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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The Orignal Bus is passing by the Big Ben<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Orignal Bus is passing a bridge over the Thames River<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Bis Bus is passing by the Big Ben<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Big Bus is passing a bridge over the Thames River with the background of the Eye of London<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Bis Bus is driving by the famous Trafalgar Square<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The Bis Bus is on the fanous Regent Street in the central London<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The bus tours offer a choice of\u00a0a recorded\u00a0tour introduction\u00a0or a live commentary\u00a0offered by entertaining tour guides on the buses. Your bus tickets are valid for 24 hours. You can hop on and off the buses at the many palces of interest within your ticket availability. The 24-hour tickets do give you plenty of time to discover London’s highlights.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Organized city bus tours are greatly favored by many first time travelers exploring a new city when they travel abroad. In comparison with the counterparts in London, Beijing bus companies or tour companies have been left far behind in offering these kinds of hop-on and hop-off double decker\u00a0Beijing Bus Tours<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

It is good that the Big Bus Company has entered the\u00a0Shanghai Bus Tour<\/strong><\/span><\/a> martket, bringing new live blood into the organized city bus tour business. Hopefully in the\u00a0forseeable future, people will see these lively open-top double buses running all around Beijing,\u00a0a safe and relaxed way to experience this great city.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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\u00a0\u00a0 The city of London is rife with the red double-decker buses, one of the local cultural tradition of London. No wonder on the closing ceremony of\u00a0the Olympic Games 2008 in Beijing\u00a0a London\u00a0double-decker bus became\u00a0the main actor accompanied by the famous football\u00a0David Beckhamon on the stage ushering the\u00a0coming 2012 Olympic Games to be held in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,19,1135],"tags":[1132,1133,1134],"class_list":["post-4340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beijing-transportation","category-beijing-travel","category-london-beijing-travel","tag-beijing-and-london-bus-tours","tag-beijing-double-decker-buses","tag-beijing-open-top-buses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4340"}],"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=4340"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4353,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4340\/revisions\/4353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}