China 8-Night Tour - from $888pp Twin Share (3 Sep 2024 - 12 Mar 2025, Departs Sydney or Melbourne) @ TripADeal

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China 8-Night Tour - from $888pp Twin Share (3 Sep 2024 - 12 Mar 2025, Departs Sydney or Melbourne) @ TripADeal
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littlesoldier on 17/04/2024 - 16:12 tripadeal.com.au (4525 clicks)
Last edited 17/04/2024 - 17:10 by 1 other user

The previous $999/p 9-nights china trip is no longer available, replaced with this $888/p 8-nights (March 2025)
This offer is strictly valid for those 18 and over.

Some experience for the similar 9 nights trip:
Credits to @branners in sharing the experience
Credits to @Nerdlighter in sharing the experience

Combine with Additional 10000 qantas points when spend $999 - $4,999

This deals include:
  • Travel cities: Beijing, Suzhou, Wuxi, Shanghai & more
  • Return international flights & one-way internal flight
  • 8 nights of 4-star hotel accommodation
  • Enjoy daily breakfast plus a traditional Peking Duck lunch
  • Discover China with English-speaking tour guides
Warning

Australia has issue a high degree of caution in China overall

Visas

A tourist visa for China is a strict requirement if travelling on an Australian Passport. Please note as of today you are required to attend a Chinese Visa Application Service Centre in person to apply for a visa. China Visa Application Service Centres can be found in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide and Brisbane. You must attend the China Visa Application Service Centre relevant to the state you reside in. Please visit https://www.visaforchina.cn/ for more information. You will be able to start your visa application process once you receive your final travel documentation approximately 6 weeks prior to departure.

Important:

Please start arranging your visa as soon as you've received your Travel Documentation to account for any delays due to consulate operating hours.
Visa rules may have changed since Covid-19. Some countries and airlines may require you to obtain an additional visa before arrival. Please check with the nearest embassy, consulate or immigration department of the destination you're entering.

Please note:

Passengers who are not Australian citizens must also check with the respective consulate or visa agency to determine what their visa requirements are and what personal identification is required.
It is also important to note that some areas of employment, such as journalism, government authorities and charity organisations, may have additional restrictions in applying for Visas. This may, in turn, affect the type of application required.

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Comments

  • Opious on 17/04/2024 - 19:03
    +3

    Anyone know if its possible to skip the return flight and book you're own way home assuming that you get the visa situation sorted out on your own. I doubt they can force you onto a plane right?

    • Opious on 17/04/2024 - 19:04

      asking because I would be interested to explore some of china myself and stay a bit longer

      • salin on 17/04/2024 - 19:22
        +4

        At the end of trip, it's 100% up to you to get into the return flight.
        As long as you have a valid visa, the Chinese government won't care about you.

        • klrrider1 on 18/04/2024 - 11:35

          Trip a Deal have various add ons, such as Terracotta Warriors.

          My step daughter and her husband dd the $A999 tour and added the Trip a Deal Trek to Mt Everest Base Camp in Nepal to it. They mentioned that the $A999 tour was good, but the lack of English made independent travel difficult in China. In Nepal, they could ask for a cup of tea in English and be understood.

  • Kev828282 on 17/04/2024 - 19:04
    +6

    Hotels in China is far better than here, way cleaner, I had trouble turn on the lights, curtain etc, it's all voice controlled

    • GnarlyKnuckles on 18/04/2024 - 03:15

      Erm … so they are 'way better', yet you had trouble turning on the lights and operating the curtains? It seems to me that those two assertions are mutually exclusive.

      What sort of 'dirty' hotels have you been staying in in Australia, by the way? I stay in Australian hotels routinely (some pretty low end), and they are generally not 'dirty'. Are you talking about 'back-packer' places/youth hostels or something like that?

      • salin on 18/04/2024 - 11:33
        +2

        You need to witness it with your own eyes.
        40Aud per night business hotels (not even 3 stars) is almost the same compared to Aussie 4 stars.

        • May4th on 19/04/2024 - 13:10
          +2

          it's a dream for backpackers. if you ignore the shopping centre restaurants there's reasonably sanitary streetside small eateries where you can survive on $5-10aud per day for reasonable food and if you are not picky with accommodation $10-20 can get you a room with its own toilet (not even a hostel)

          • salin on 19/04/2024 - 19:48
            +2

            @May4th: For me those 40-60 dollars business hotels are great. clean, and has its toilet and shower.
            But it's only available in second tier of cities.

          • Ranonymous on 21/04/2024 - 11:05

            @May4th: Ahhh yes, the sanitary streetside eateries……..

            https://youtu.be/Gu6yJyi97ZI?si=vgryyAbs4_J1rvQD

            I do like street food when travelling in SE Asia, but I think the above is food for thought (no pun intended)!

            • May4th on 21/04/2024 - 12:08

              @Ranonymous: there was a crackdown a few years back on it due to domestic horror and uproar.. enjoy the cheap food..or don't, your call

    • Poor Ass on 18/04/2024 - 03:29

      I haven't been to any voice activated hotels in China and I've been to a lot of places so must be where you went.

      Also labour is cheap they can hire like 5 people to do 1 person's job in Australia so you would expect decent cleanliness

    • May4th on 18/04/2024 - 08:29
      +2

      Yes automaton/delivery robots for take outs to your room are all fairly standard now, it's hotel specific some cater to young people like yaduo. Mid-tier hotels (100-200aud) in tier 1 cities like shanghai will get you a very nice room

      Erm … so they are 'way better', yet you had trouble turning on the lights and operating the curtains? It seems to me that those two assertions are mutually exclusive.

      He/she had trouble because it's voice activated and they don't speak chinese, duh.

  • Chicken Kyiv on 17/04/2024 - 19:21
    -3

    Cost $888 worth $444

  • Yaren24 on 17/04/2024 - 22:11

    Is flights included?

    • Sendi-Bendi on 17/04/2024 - 22:53
      +1

      Yes, full service international airlines.
      China Southern Airlines, China Eastern Airlines, Hainan Airlines, Air China, Sichuan Airlines, Xiamen Airlines, Beijing Capital Airlines, Tianjin Airlines plus any codeshare partners (subject to availability).

  • sal78 on 18/04/2024 - 00:09
    +3

    China is pretty amazing. We went about 6 yrs ago and did free and easy option. We flew into Hangzhou on Scoot and spent 5 days? Visa free transit to explore Hangzhou, Shanghai and Suzhou. The highlight was overnight stay in the UNESCO ancient town Tong Li. We arrived at 4pm and left 10am, had the whole place to ourselves with the locals and no crowds/tourists.
    We managed to visit tourist places at off peak time avoiding the crowds. Picked our own central accommodation i.e on the Bund. Did a lot of local recommended stuff. The nightlife in Shanghai is very shiok!

    I would highly recommend not doing a tour and plan it yourself. Just need to know dome basic chinese i.e how to barter because you can neg everything.

    The people there are the nicest. In Tongli, we ran out of cash and could not find our accommodation. Lots of tiny narrow streets and canals. A lady took us to hotel, took us to ATM, showed us around, took photos for us and took us to her friend’s 3 table restaurant in a tiny shop/house for dinner. Everything was so authentic and the best chinese vegies I’ve ever had in my life. She spent 4hrs with us! Tongli is Venice of China.

    This yr we booked the trip a deal panda tour with qantas 1/2 off points. I’m a bit worried about doing a tour and already regretting it but it’s a very good deal inc the Yangtze river cruise and it’s free with points.

    Places I really want to visit are Guilin, Yangshuo (lots of 6 star luxury hotels), and Kunming, Dali, Lijiang, Changsha, Hengdian World Studios, Atlantis Sanya, Beijing. So many more places.

  • ssdexecutor82 on 18/04/2024 - 00:36

    is there many western toilets?

    • GnarlyKnuckles on 18/04/2024 - 03:28
      -2

      In all the hotels yes, in the 'villages' no.

    • May4th on 18/04/2024 - 08:32

      Pretty much everywhere unless you go really rural

  • yotis on 18/04/2024 - 08:03

    For the people that shared the experienced.. did you had to hand in your passport to the tour guide the entire trip?

    • saltypete on 18/04/2024 - 09:14
      +1

      We did one of these some years ago and they didn’t take it for the trip.
      They did need to gather them each evening to book us into the hotels as hotels are required to sight passports.
      We’ve also done some from within China with locals. Really good fun once you learn to jostle.

      • michaelTito on 18/04/2024 - 13:55
        -2

        Damn taking everyone passport for hotel check in? That’s kinda scary imagine they never give it back

        • saltypete on 19/04/2024 - 13:10
          +1

          You get your passport back with your room key. The alternative is to try to get a room associated with the tour in English - to a very perplexed hotel check in who often won’t speak English. Even if you can negotiate your rate to match the tour rate I’m sure your room quality will reflect the hassle you caused……
          For the tour guide, failing to give you back your passport brings on a world of pain from their own legal system. Similarly, any passport fraud they are the first ones to be looked at.

    • branners on 18/04/2024 - 09:21
      +1

      On the 9-day trip last month, we handed the passports over to the guide when we checked in on the first night and he hung on to them, because that was our ID to get us into the Tiananmen Sq and Forbidden City tours. We got them back that night.
      When we got to the Southern leg, we handed them over at check-in at the first hotel and some asked for them back the next morning (as ID for bank exchange), some did not. Each hotel check-in, we gave them to the guide because it was faster that way

    • Nerdlighter on 18/04/2024 - 14:43

      We had to hand ours over to our tour guide for checking into the hotel and a few activities, like Tiananmen Square & The Forbidden City (passport was needed to enter, so the tour guide sorted it all out for us). With checking into hotels (as we usually checked in pretty late), our tour guides kept our passports overnight, then handed them back the next morning.

      Apart from that, we kept our passports on us.

  • ddhar on 18/04/2024 - 09:42

    I'm interested in this deal but am flying solo (additional $500 charge). Is this still a deal with the additional fee?

    • littlesoldier on 18/04/2024 - 09:49

      I believe the additional charge is mainly related to hotel room as you will not share with others, but I cant comment whether its worth it or not…

      • ddhar on 18/04/2024 - 10:06

        Yes indeed. No room sharing allowed hence the additional $500 for solo traveller, i.e. $1,388 p/p.

        Would like some thoughts if this number is still considered a deal.

        • May4th on 18/04/2024 - 10:36
          +2

          price-wise it's still a deal. cheapest flight you can get is 5-600 which leaves you about 100aud per day for food/accommodation transport/airfares- very hard to undercut that unless you stay in cheapo 2-3 star hotels (most of them aren't allowed to house foreigners).

          personally I wouldn't go on this tour as a solo traveller as china is a good place to explore by yourself and the tour will limit you to all the very touristy areas, waste your time with compulsory affiliated shop visits etc. so maybe good for a taste testing trip to see if it's for you as it will save you the hassle with organising everything yourself and not have to worry about the language barrier.

          shanghai especially has large expat community (maybe not as big as pre-covid) where you can mingle with english speaking locals

  • huju on 18/04/2024 - 12:46
    -8

    Be wary. There's a lot of CCP bots in these comments writing fake positive reviews, upvoting this "bargain", and downvoting/silencing legitimate criticism.

    It's become obvious via the sheer quantity of fake upvotes and 3 pages of comments.

    Read what the Australian government published about travelling to China.
    https://www.smartraveller.gov.au/destinations/asia/china

    This isn't some biased media or troll article.

    • michaelTito on 18/04/2024 - 13:56
      -1

      Yeah always check travel alert when travelling abroad. Especially going to a communist country. I’m not saying don’t go but make sure you do all your research before going.

      • Poor Ass on 19/04/2024 - 10:15

        If you want to talk about political ideology Australia is more commi / left wing than China

        The political party is called CCP but it hardly have any communist values… the name is just sticking around

    • May4th on 18/04/2024 - 14:35
      +6

      must be nice to live in a bubble where all dissenting views and opinions are bots.

    • Marrk on 18/04/2024 - 15:31
      +5

      I'm not a bot, a travel bargain is a travel bargain. There are obviously considerations that must be taken into account, I'm not as hesitant as I would be going to a country like North Korea. This is probably one of the few countries where I would rather have a guide as well.

    • branners on 18/04/2024 - 16:20
      +4

      I have left a number of positive comments on the TripADeal thread about their $999 China tour, which my wife and I took last month. Not a bot, just someone who was happy with the trip and passing on some tips to others.
      Please feel free to check my other comments, which are usually about OzB phone deals (proud buyer of a Moto G82 when there was a price error!)

    • Soled Out on 18/04/2024 - 16:57

      can confirm. i am a bot. they call me Mr Robot. fsociety

  • lint on 19/04/2024 - 11:30

    If I'm not mistaken, these are the types of tours where a third of the time you're taken to certain shops where they sell you various wares that are either fake or ridiculously overpriced. That's how they do it for so cheap. You can go on these and get a really good deal, just don't buy anything from the places they take you.

    • littlesoldier on 19/04/2024 - 11:35
      +1

      they are usually not fake, but overprice compare to what you can buy locally in China
      however you are actually easier to buy fake products if you buy it locally "by yourself" though

    • michaelTito on 19/04/2024 - 20:04

      Yeah that’s how they get ya. You’ll end up spending more for lease quality products

  • jrvb42 on 20/04/2024 - 20:55
    +3

    Having just received travel docs for the $999 deal, which was paid for months ago, I am a little disappointed even now.

    As usual a 10 day tour is really 8 days. But worse than that, which is sadly industry standard, is that the flights days/nights are then included in the 8 days, so it's a 6 day tour. Accom looks reasonable. Meals are only breakfasts. The itinerary is partially empty. Several free periods in which you can pay extra or must look after yourself.
    Bottom line, I wouldn't book again, as I know I could do better self organised.
    The tour is also restrictive on arriving early or leaving late. Reason they give is due to visas, which is rubbish as I explained to them I already have a flexible Chinese visa. It's actually due to group booking prices.
    Oh and tripadeal spam emails for months while you're waiting for travel docs. No thanks!

    • geshc on 20/04/2024 - 22:54
      +3

      The itinerary is partially empty. Several free periods in which you can pay extra or must look after yourself.

      This is actually great for me as I want to do my own things anyways. Crappy about 2 days being travel though!

    • May4th on 21/04/2024 - 09:19

      I prefer the free periods to be honest I like to be able to do things I'm interested in instead of being dragged to affiliated sites. Ideally if they just sold it as a package with flights/transport/hotels that'd appeal to me more, as you are not likely to be able to book them all for cheaper which is probably why you booked the tour in the first place. Unfortunate re: travel time but that's standard for any travel not just limited to tours.

  • dotminette on 24/04/2024 - 10:55

    can you extend the trip either side? might be interested if that's possible

    • geshc on 24/04/2024 - 22:27

      No it's not possible.

  • 0FoxGiven on 25/04/2024 - 21:06

    Can a kid be brought along and counted for in the twin share?

    • geshc on 26/04/2024 - 00:09

      18+ only

  • klrrider1 on 29/04/2024 - 10:59

    An alternative tour to this tour is the Flight Centre China Express Tour for $A990 per person.

    This tour states: "Child

    This tour is best enjoyed to adult travellers and is not suitable for children under 12 years of age. Children 12 years and above are subject to the adult price and must be accompanied by an adult."

    So if the kid is over 12, the Flight Centre Tour is an option.

  • klrrider1 on 14/05/2024 - 12:15

    Qantas advertises this tour as a 10-day tour despite the fact that only 8 bights is spent in China.

    They have also extended the expiry date of this offer to 4 January 2025.

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