Help needed please - flights from Hong Kong to Beijing

snowf1ake

I am taking my family to Hong Kong (May 25th - June 3rd) and would like to take a flight to Beijing but after searching online, they are coming up reeeeaaaallly expensive (cheapest £352 per person). This is more than it's costing us to fly from UK to HK!!!

Does anyone have any ideas how I can do this any cheaper - all suggestions would be very welcome???!

snowf1ake

Christal_2

Don't know what airline quoted that price to you or if it's a direct flight, the best bet would be to buy the ticket from HK as you can get much cheaper price from there, it would be with either Dragon AIrline (a HK airline) or China Eastern Airline, and a return ticket should come around £200.

try google it and see if you can find any HK based travel agency and you can buy the ticket from them.

Voyager2002

For a start, why do you want to go to Beijing? It really is a long way from Hong Kong, and there are plenty of things to see and do that are near to Hong Kong. Your post almost sounds like someone going to Australia and wanting to include South Africa as well!

Anyway, if you really need to get to Beijing you should consider the trains as well as aeroplanes. Chinese trains are comfortable, with beds, and are a good way to see the countryside and meet people.

Whether you travel by air or rail, consider crossing the border to Shenzhen (or even Guangzhou) and travelling from there. Flights from Shenzhen to places in China cost a fraction of the equivalent flights from Hong Kong, since flights out of Hong Kong are considered to be international rather than domestic. The two main websites for booking these flights are called Elong and Ctrip. They are both reliable.

For rail, trains from Hong Kong are more luxurious than those that travel only within China, but cost rather more. And you may find that the trains waits at the border for a very long time.

pin

Try flying out of Schenzen (sp?) or Machau.

snowf1ake

I used to live in Hong Kong as a child so I know my way around HK and all that there is to do but I'd like to take my children to Beijing as well whilst we are travelling so far (11 hours on the plane).

I hardly think that you can compare going on a 3hr flight from HK to Beijing to going on a 8 1/2hr flight from South Africa to Australia?

Thanks very much for the advice though, I shall certainly look into going to Shenzhen and travelling from there. Thanks

snowf1ake

alison74

Try

http://english.ctrip.com/supermarket/Flight/SuperFlightSearch.asp

or

http://www.elong.net/flights/


Prices go down the closer you leave it.

I would make the effort to go to Beijing - it's a fabulous city and I am assuming you would be going to the Great Wall ? Make sure you go to the Simatai section - I went there last year at the height of the tourist season and there was no-one there ! Had the whole wall to ourselves as it's an extra hours journey from the main touristy spots of the GW, Badaling etc.

Tabasco

snowf1ake wrote:

I am taking my family to Hong Kong (May 25th - June 3rd) and would like to take a flight to Beijing but after searching online, they are coming up reeeeaaaallly expensive (cheapest £352 per person). This is more than it's costing us to fly from UK to HK!!!

Does anyone have any ideas how I can do this any cheaper - all suggestions would be very welcome???!

snowf1ake

Try priceline.com.hk, they are usually quite cheap.

Failing that, try logging on to travel agencies in HK. https://www.morningstar.com.hk is one.

Last suggestion would be checking cathaypacific.com. I think they, along with dragonair do flights to Beijing.

Good luck.

No_Future

HK and Beijing are definitely worth visiting!