Shanghai Travel Forum

I need opinions..!!! I have signed up for a trip to Beijing/Inner Mongolia/Shanghai 2 months back. I will be going with my husband and 2 kids aged 8 and 11.
The thing is I keep reading of the deadly EV71 virus that are going around in China and I am so worried now. I have already paid a deposit of $2000 to the tour agency abd have to pay the rest in 10 days time. Do you think I should continue with the trip or should I cancel?

I will only be in Beijing for 1 day, then off to Inner Mongolia for 4 days then 2 nights in Shanghai. What's the situation in China now? I will be calling the travel agency later to see what my options are...


Faridah : )

In my humble opinion, I would continue with the trip. These cases are a very small percentage of the local population. Their exposure is more intimate, more prolonged and usually involves much lower sanitation standards than what a tourist will ever experience.

China is a large country and the virus only found in some place and it's far away from Beijing, Shanghai. Don't worry, the government has take control of it. I live in Beijing and never worrying the virus can impact our everyday life.

Hi guys,

Thanks for the replies.. It is scary the way the newspaper and the internet puts it. What worries me is that it affects the kids and have killed many, as a mother I tend to be on the paranoid side.. : )

From the news reports it sounds like the cases are mainly in Fuyang, Anhui province. Nowhere near where you're going, so I don't see any undue cause for worry.