Hello follow members, I am finally planning my trip to fly to Beihai in Decenber to meet my beautiful Lao po, Xiaojuan Lao, YEA. Of course I am very excited and but a bit nervous about traveling so far from my home land for the first time. So here is my question or rather request. For all that have made the trip there to China what tips on traveling there can you give the dos and don’ts? Now I am not worried about us we are just fine, can’t wait to get each other in our arms, I am more concerned about the travel it’s self, the airports and what to expect when getting into Guangzhou and waiting the few hours to fly on down to Beihai and what to expect there as well. What kind of items should I not take to keep from slowing things down?
Help guys my time is coming soon. Oh and here is a picture of my love, might as well see why I am going, right.
Thanks, Ken
Hi Ken, welcome to the forums.
We'd need a bit more details (as in the airports you will have to go through and if you've been overseas before). Not sure how much help I can give you about Guangzhou as I've never been there before, however some travel tips I tell people when they tell me they're taking their first trip out of the country,
1) Have your travel documents ready and accessable (ticket, passport, etc.) in your carry-on baggage.
2) Check out the web sites for the airports and your airlines to see if they have any restrictions (liquid limits, stuff you carry on) and to find out how early you'll need arrive to get through immigration (typically 2-3 hours before the departure on international flights)
3) Dress comfortably but tastefully (you're in for a long flight). So golf-tee and jeans (personally I prefer khakis, but that's personal opinion) is fine, however shorts and flipflops are not. This one is important as it gives the inbound immigration agent an impression...but on a long flight, you should be comfortable too.
4) Carry on a few light snacks (I prefer some candy and a few chinese buns). There's food on the plane, and you can buy food at the airport, but sometimes you need something quick and depending on the airport, you could be paying through the nose for the food.
5) A form of entertainment... A frequent complaint I hear is that the in flight entertainment sucks (it's improving, but it still sucks). So when I go, I have my laptop loaded up with TV shows and movies and e-books. I also usually have two books with me... one for the trip there and one for the trip back...keep one of the books in the checked-in luggage and one on me for the plane just in case I don't want to watch a movie.
6) Have fun... you're about to embark on a really amazing trip.
Anyway, hope some of this helps...when you can, give us some details and what type of info you're looking for and maybe we can focus this for you...
And as the others have said, give us the story man.