The hotel also offers one-day travel service in Beijing. You can register and buy the ticket at the Front Desk at 18:00 one day before, and here are two routes for choices.

 

 

The Great Wall
The Great Wall is a symbol of the ancient Chinese civilization. Stretching 3,950 miles, The Great Wall was built as a defensive structure. It is listed in the United Nation's Education, Science and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) World Heritage List in 1987. The best preserved and most imposing section of the wall is at Badaling, 50 miles north of Beijing and over 2,625 feet above sea level, but the magnitude and beauty of the wall can also be seen at Jinshanling, Mutianyu, and Simatai.
The Construction of the Great Wall first began during the warring period of 476 - 221 B.C. In the beginning walls were built at some strategic points by different kingdoms to protect their own territories. After the first Emperor Qin Shihuang of the Qin Dynasty unified China in 221 B.C., he decided to have the individual walls joined together creating one Great Wall. It took more than 1 million people and more than 10 years to finish the work.

 

Forbidden City
The Forbidden City is also known as the Palace Museum. It is the largest and most well preserved imperial residence in China today. Located in the center of Beijing, The Forbidden City was built between 1406 and 1420 under Ming Emperor Yongle, and served as the imperial palace for the Ming and Qing dynasties. Ming Emperor Zhudi was the first emperor to live there. It is 3,150 feet long from north to south and 2,460 feet wide from east to west. It has 9,900 rooms and halls containing many precious relics. A 170-foot wide moat encircles the Forbidden City along with 32-foot high walls. There are four entrances, the Meridian Gate to the south, the Shenwu Gate (Gate of Military Prowess) to the north, the Xihua Gate (Western Flowery Gate) to the west, and the Donghua Gate (Eastern Flowery Gate) to the east.

The word "forbidden" is quite literal, as the imperial palace was heavily guarded and off-limits to ordinary people. As the residence for emperors and their families, most of the walls of the imperial palace were painted red and roofs were covered with yellow glazed tiles. The red and yellow combination forms a strong color contrast, representing the absolute authority, supremacy, and richness of feudal emperors. In 1987, UNESCO also listed the Forbidden City in the World Heritage List. It is the largest palace in the world.

  

Highly Recommended Restaurants

Quanjude Restaurant
Address: No. 14, Qianmen West Street, Beijing
Tel: 86-10-63048987
Email: intl@chinaquanjude.com
Main Dishes: Roast Duck,  Hot and Spicy Shredded Duck Wing, Mustard Duck Web, Seasoned Duck Gizzard, Quick-fried Three Duck Whites in Distilled Grain Sauce, Crystal Duck Delicacy, Dry Fried Four Delicacies, more......

Beijing Roast Duck
Beijing Roast duck is thought to be one of the most delicious dishes all over the world; most visitors coming to Beijing will never forget to have a try. The famous Restaurant that serves Beijing Roast Duck are Quanjude Roast Duck Restaurant, which has a history of over one hundred years.
Quanjude founded in 1864, uses an oven without a door. After a kind of dressing being spread all over a duck, it will be hooked up in the oven over the flame coming directly from the burning of the fruit-tree wood and it will be done in forty minutes.
When roasted and dried, the duck will look brilliantly dark red, shining with oil and with crisp skin and tender meat. Because of its appearance, few people could resist the temptation of it.

South Beauty Restaurant
Address: No. 2, Kexuyuan South Road, Haidian District, Beijing
Tel: (010)82861698
Email: qjn@qiaojiangnan.com
Main Dishes: more......

Sichuan Cuisine
You won't find southern China dishes here because this is a typical Sichuan restaurant which offers the plus of innovative alternative cuisines and court favorites. Patrons also like the fact that the chefs prepare meals in front of you while the waiters, meanwhile, regale you with the legends surrounding many of the dishes. South Beauty also offers a delightful setting and ambience, providing a colorful and memorable dining experience. Transparent drawbridges, moon-shaped glass doors and fascinating Mongolian-style yurts colored black, white and red are enhanced by bamboo decorations and bead screens. Ethnic music adds to the general warmth of the place. Regular diners describe South Beauty as everything from "cool" to "very special". At weekday lunchtimes, two dishes are available at 50 percent discount, while dinner is usually an average 100 yuan per person. The restaurant has some 200 covers, and offers patrons free parking.

Green Tianshi Vegetarian Restaurant
Address: No.57 Dengshikou Street, East   District, Beijing, China
Tel: (8610)65242349
Email: friend@greentianshi.com
Main Dishes: Fried vegetarian Prawns filling with pineapple slices, Tianshi Banquet Duck in Soy Sauce, Fried Vegetarian Squirrel Fish with Pine Nuts in Sweet-sour Sauce, The Best Vegetarian Dish in Potato Nest, Deep-fried Vegetarian Steaks, Vegetarian the Upper Part of a Leg of Pork in "Dongpo" Style, more......

Vegetarian dishes
People often say, when you feel like eating vegetarian food, "Well, why not go to Green Tianshi Vegetarian Restaurant? They have fantastic vegetarian meals. It is wonderful. I'm sure you'll like it." The Green TIanshi Vegetarian Restaurant is indeed much different from any other vegetarian restaurant. All the patrons rave about its excellent service. It's like an author said," Green Tianshi Vegetarian Restaurant is like a lovely flower, which quietly shares its special fragrant."
Our meat-like vegetarian dishes are distinctive. It's just an art. We strive for both flavor and nutrition. Everyone loves foods that tastes good and cherish health. Our vegetarian foods and drinks are delicious. And you don't need to worry about cholesterol. Our eggless vegetarian cakes are wonderfully natural and really excellent. The flavor of our own natural teas is unforgettable.

Fei Teng Yu Xiang Restaurant
(Sichuan Cuisine)
Address: No. 17 Zhichun Road, Haidian District, Beijing
Tel: (8601)82311286
Email: N/A
Main Dishes: Spicy fish,  more......

 Kong Yi Ji Restaurant
(Shaoxing Cuisine)
Address: South Bank of Houhai, Shichahai Lake, Dongcheng District
Tel: (8610)64040507
Email: N/A
Main Dishes: N/A

Shopping

Wangfujing Street
Wangfujing, a seven hundred-year-old commercial street, is located to the east of Tiananmen Square and stretches from Chinese Art Gallery to the Dongchan'an Avenue. It houses a wide variety of shops and boutiques where you can find all kinds of commodities, some of which are of world-famous brands. The recently finished Oriental Plaza (Dongfang Guangchang) adds more charm to Wangfujing.
Besides modern department stores, the Foreign Language Bookstore is also in this area. The Old-Beijing-Street is now seated underground, which was built and decorated in Ming and Qing style. The outstanding characteristic of it is the centralized well-known longstanding stores selling shoes, caps, silk cloth, scissors, Chinese brushes and ink-stick, jade articles, tea, desserts, pickled vegetables, roast ducks and so on.
The most popular sites for souvenir photos are the sculptures on both street sides, reflecting life of old Beijing.

Liulichang Culture Street
Liulichang was reconstructed in 1984 and it adapted a China Dynasty architectural style. It is located on the southern side of Shinhwa Street, where there are many antique stores, bookstores, furniture stores and even handicraft and porcelain stores. Each store specializes in one item only. It used to be a place where used products were sold and where merchants gathered. After the Emperor Kangxi Qing Dynasty, it became a market for antiques, calligraphy products and paintings. People could buy art supplies at a very low price or they could see stores where their pictures were mounted. Liulichang has been loved by literary men for over 200 years, and many foreigners who love the Chinese culture visit this place. There is much construction going on at Liulichang Street.

HongQiao Market
This market is located in the south central area of Beijing, just to the east of the Temple of Heaven. It is an indoor mall with a seafood market in the basement and about 3 floors up. It is filled mainly with cheap electronic goods like portable CD players, VCD players, camcorders, batteries, sunglasses, electronics, household phones. Even thermos flasks and tea jars.
The items for sale are less brand conscious and tend to be from real "no-name" Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Thai companies. The quality does not look good but at the prices they're going for, does it matter if it lasts just 6 months ? You could often buy 10 of the items in question for the price of one real name brand in a department store.
Our advice is, bargain for the deal, and don't expect quality. If you are thinking of splashing out on something like a camcorder, best to stick to Wangfujing or Xidan. If you just want a CD player or a cheap camera, mp3 player, boom box, electronic dictionary, watch etc. HongQiao is not a bad option.
As for seafood, we don't know anything, but the basement market is large and many things are still alive till you buy them, so I guess it would be called fresh. The selection looks comprehensive.