This year, we have flown twice with a Chinese airline from Melbourne, Australia, to Qingdao, China. The latest airline we used is Beijing Capital Airlines. My family’s recent flight on Beijing Capital Airlines’ Melbourne-Qingdao route offered a glimpse into what budget Chinese carriers bring to the table. Beijing Capital Airlines, the low-cost subsidiary of Hainan … Read more
We recently flew from Australia to China and returned with two different airlines — Xiamen Airlines one way and Air China the other. Xiamen Airlines tickets are typically cheaper than Air China by up to 30%, so the question was whether Air China’s service was worth the extra cost. Here’s what we found. Xiamen Airlines … Read more
Beijing is a city of 25 million people. A population that size comes with traffic and lots of it. If you’ve ever been stuck in Bali traffic, it has a similar feel to it. Getting around Beijing as a tourist is genuinely one of the harder parts of visiting — and when Bec and I … Read more
If you’re heading to China you need to sort out a VPN before you leave home. Not when you get there. Before you leave. Because once you land, the Great Firewall of China blocks pretty much everything you rely on — Google, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, WhatsApp. All of it. Gone. We’d been to China before … Read more