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Which Airline Should You Use to Travel to China?

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Matt
on March 27, 2008
in China
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Great Wall of ChinaThere are a number of different ways you can find a flight from your country to China. First of all, do you have a Chinese visa? If you do, then you won’t have any problems entering the country. There are a number of international airports in China. Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong are the most common places to enter China. If you land in Hong Kong you may not need a visa, but you will need a Chinese visa in order to enter mainland China. Beijing has recently created a new international airport in preparation to the Olympics, so their facility is more updated.

Since you have a Chinese visa, you can look for deals at your local travel agency or you can search online and pay with a credit card. Where are you flying from? You can check out Kayak.com to search through the different discount airline websites to find a flight that is the right price for you. A new airline that offers some discount prices to fly to Hong Kong is Oasis Hong Kong. You might want to check out their website to see if they offer a flight near you. So far they only offer flights from Hong Kong to Vancouver, Canada and London, England.

I flew from Vancouver (YVR) to Hong Kong (HKG) with Cathay Pacific and the flight was comfortable even though it was over 14 hours long. I was then able to connect with a flight to Chongqing (CKG) with the airline Dragon Air, Cathay Pacific’s domestic airline in China. I’ve traveled by air to Beijing and Shenzhen and have found the domestic airline service to be generally the same.

Which airline do you think is best to fly to China? Do you know where to get the best deals online?

How to Apply for China Visa?

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James
on March 26, 2008
in China
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You may be asking yourself, “Do I need a visa to travel to China?” or “What are the documents needed to travel to China?”  You do need a Chinese visa before you can enter China.  Applying for a China Visa is quite easy. You need to get a passport-quality photograph for the application, and gather some extra information for the application:

  • Address and phone number of where you are going to be staying.
  • Address and phone number of a contact in China.
  • Address and phone number of your employer or school.
  • An idea of your entry date, how long you are going to stay, which cities you are going to visit and their order, and whether or not you are going to leave and enter the country again.

If you don’t have all that information, apply anyways. I did not provide contact information for the employer/school, since I am self-employed, and I had no problems. I imagine that it should be possible to apply for the visa without a contact in China.

I applied with the China Visa Application Form, which you can print and fill out. There will also be copies of the form at the local China consulate. This form is up to date as of March 2008.