Beijing is a colorful metropolitan city with a huge number of entertainment activities. In the daytime, you can go to a cinema, museum or theatre. If you enjoy the Chinese teas like Oolongs and Longjings, you may go to a teahouse which you can find in pretty much every street corner. Many kinds of exhibitions and shows are also available like art galleries, ancient museums etc. Visitors can enjoy various kinds of sports such as shooting, bungee jumping, indoor skating and so on. In the evening, you have other choices like going to bar streets, KTV karaokes, night-snack streets etc. Beijing is a nightless city. You will not feel lonely during the evening no matter where you are from or who you came with. We recommend that you choose your hotel in the city center if you want to experience the bustling nightlife of the city. Beijing Hotels are different in price, from hostel-cheap to luxury and can be as low as 25$ per night and as high as a few thousands per night! If you would like to take Beijing Tours, we recommend that you take both a day tour and a night tour to enjoy two totally different atmospheres of Beijing.

Beijing is also the shoppers paradise. Tons of shopping malls and stores are available all over the city. However it is advised to be careful on what to buy, the majority of those shops are selling cheap souvenirs, counterfeit designer ware, pirated dvds, knockoff Chinese antiques etc. Cheap “made in china” electronics are also common. Lack of standards require you to be very cautious about what you buy. The return policy is non-existent in 99% of stores and stands so they make you try the product out extensively before you leave the stand. Credit cards are accepted in about 10% of the stores but never accepted in street stands and street markets, so it is recommended to always carry actual money on you.

Bargaining is an important game to play here in Beijing, mainly at the markets and back-street clothes booths. Bargaining is a technique to develop and if you are unfamiliar with it we’d like to offer you some advice. The suggestions here are not only specific to Beijing but may help you at any country throughout the globe where bargaining is practiced. First of all, do not say how much you want to pay for a product unless its near the end of the debate. It is advised to always try and drop the seller’s price as much as possible before opening choosing a price. Keep smiling throughout the whole bargaining negotiations. The merchant is much more likely to continue bargaining if he’s talking with a happy smiling individual. Getting angry is more likely to not gets you the price you want. Be aware that the initial price offered by the seller is generally at least 45% over the general acceptable price and it can be up to 500% in certain areas (where there are loads of tourists). Try to always have an idea of what the item is worth either by asking your Chinese friends, hotel staff or other expats that have been living there for a long time.

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