Beijing Travel Forum

Hi,

I will visit BJS with three friends in mid Jan, however will be catching returning flight to AKL in HKG. Would like to consider all the possible options from travelling from BJS to HKG, if anyone can help, would be appreciated. Would like to keep the cost as low as possible.

Thanks.

You can take a train but I think it would take about a day or loner of travel. You can also look up flights on web sites like www.elong.com. It may be cheaper to fly to the Shenzhen Airport. Sometime internal flights are discounted. However, there is a lot of business travel between Shenzhen and other parts of the Mainland so many flights to Shenzhen may not be discounted.

Shuttle info between Shenzhen airport and HK.
http://eng.szairport.com/catalog_494.aspx

Thanks for the tips and the website. Just checked the elong.com site. On the home page, there are some special airfares, however only applies up to 4th of Jan. I am thinking of travelling to Shenzhen from BJS on the 22nd, do you think flight will become cheaper as it gets closer to the traveling date? Cause special airfare to Shenzhen from BJS on the 4th is 750, whereas price quoted by the site on the 22nd is 1580, twice as much.

domestic flights in china often get cheaper the closer to the departure. But there is no guarantee they will. Also, I think Chinese New Year is around that time? So their may be more demand and less price discounts.

You are at a bad time. Since Chinese new year is Jan. 26 so you may not be able to get much discount, if you are lucky enough to get a ticket of any kind. :)

We found the cheapest way to get to HK was to travel domestically within China.
It was cheap to fly to Shenzhen then, cross over on the ferry into Hong Kong.
We have information on our pages.

Flights between mainland China and Hong Kong are considered international.
Note that you will need an open end visa or, re-entry into China if you are returning.
You can acquire VOA (Visa on Arrival) into Hong Kong from Shenzhen.