Check my plan
Trip Check
You made the plan. A local planner checks it and sends back fixes within 48 hours.
China trip planning · based in Hebei, next to Beijing
Plan China with people who live here.
We check your plan, build your itinerary, and stay on WhatsApp while you travel — trains, tickets, payments and menus included.
- Reply within 30 min, 08:00–22:00 Beijing time
- Written refund policy
- No shopping stops, no kickbacks
3 fixes we’d make
Forbidden City tickets sell out days ahead in peak season. Set a reminder for release day — we’ll send it.
Beijing → Xi’an: take the G-train (about 4½–6 h). Station-to-hotel beats airport-to-hotel.
Your Xi’an hotel may not register foreign passports. Here are three nearby that do.
Then: day-by-day plan · reservation calendar · app setup
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Prices are per trip, not per person — for up to 4 travelers.
Plan it for me
Custom Itinerary
Give us your dates. We build the day-by-day plan, with trains, tickets and hotels that take your passport.
Help me on the road
On-Trip Pass
Real people on WhatsApp or WeChat while you travel, 08:00–22:00 Beijing time.
Want everything booked? Done-for-You through our licensed partner Get a quote
Popular first trips
Most first visits combine two or three of these. We plan the order, the trains in between and how many days each one needs.
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Beijing
The Forbidden City, hutong lanes and the Great Wall — most first trips start here.
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Xi’an
The Terracotta Warriors, a city wall you can cycle on, and the Muslim Quarter’s food street.
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Shanghai
The Bund, leafy old lanes and easy international flights — a natural start or finish.
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Guilin & Yangshuo
Karst peaks, the Li River and bike rides between rice fields.
How we plan it: Guilin & Yangshuo
What trips people up in China — and what we do about it
China is easy to travel once a few things are set up. These six catch first-timers most often.
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Payments
Shops, taxis and even street stalls expect Alipay or WeChat Pay, and a foreign card doesn’t always link on the first try.
What we doWe walk you through linking your card before you fly, and sort out failed payments live on WhatsApp.
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Internet
Google, WhatsApp and Instagram don’t work on hotel Wi-Fi or a local Chinese SIM card.
What we doWe help you choose roaming or an international eSIM before you land, so maps and messages keep working.
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Trains
High-speed trains are the best way around, but popular routes sell out and booking with a passport has its quirks.
What we doYour plan lists every train with its booking date, and we show you how to book with your passport, step by step.
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Tickets & real‑name reservations
Big sights sell timed tickets in your passport name, days ahead — some only through WeChat mini-programs in Chinese.
What we doYou get a reservation calendar with release dates, and we help with the bookings that only work in Chinese.
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Hotels that accept foreigners
Some hotels still can’t register foreign passports, and booking sites don’t always say so.
What we doEvery hotel on our shortlist accepts foreign passports, in an area that makes your days easier.
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Getting around & language
Few taxi or Didi drivers speak English, and addresses only really work in Chinese.
What we doWe set you up with Didi and the metro, give you every address in Chinese, and translate on WhatsApp when you’re stuck.
How it works
Four stops, from your first message to your last day — with the same people all the way.
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Tell us your trip
Dates, a rough route, who’s coming. The form takes about five minutes.
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We plan (or check) it
A named planner builds your day-by-day plan — or reviews the one you made.
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You book with our links, or our licensed partner books
Step-by-step links for trains, hotels and tickets. Rather not? Choose Done-for-You.
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We’re on WhatsApp while you travel
08:00–22:00 Beijing time, replies within 30 minutes. Menus, Didi, payments, trains.
Our backyard: Beijing and Hebei
Most visitors see Beijing and fly on. These are a short ride away, and they’re the places we know best.
Jinshanling Great Wall
About 2–2½ h from Beijing by car
Watchtower after watchtower along a mountain ridge, part restored and part wild, with far fewer people than Badaling.
Chengde Mountain Resort
About 1 h by G-train from Beijing Chaoyang
The Qing emperors’ summer retreat: lakes, pavilions and wooded hills, with the Eight Outer Temples around it.
Zhengding Ancient Town
About 1–1½ h by G-train from Beijing West
A quiet old town with thousand-year-old temple halls and the giant bronze Guanyin of Longxing Temple.
Shanhaiguan, where the Great Wall meets the sea
About 2–2½ h by train
Old Dragon’s Head, where the Wall runs into the Bohai Sea, and the First Pass Under Heaven.
Why travelers choose us
We’re a small team, so our promises are simple — and written down.
Named people, real faces
You see who’s planning your trip — name, face, languages — before you pay. No anonymous call centre.
We’re in China
We can phone a hotel in Chinese, book through WeChat mini-programs, and fix payment or check-in problems on the ground.
No shopping stops, no kickbacks
We take no commissions from shops or restaurants. If we ever use an affiliate link, we say so.
Clear terms and a guarantee
A written refund policy and response times. If your first itinerary draft isn’t right, we’ll redo it. Still not happy? Full refund.
What travelers say
Reviews on Trustpilot and Google — link after launch.
Sample review
“The Trip Check caught that our Xi’an hotel couldn’t register foreign passports. We changed it two weeks before we flew, not at midnight on arrival.”
Sample review
“Ten days on the 240-hour transit and no idea where to start. The plan had every train, every booking date and a rainy-day backup.”
Sample review
“Alipay rejected my card on day one. Someone answered on WhatsApp within minutes, and soon after we were paying for dumplings.”
Free PDF
The China-Ready Checklist
One page to print or save: payments, eSIM, apps, trains, tickets and the phrases you’ll use on day one.
What’s on it
- Alipay and WeChat Pay set up, card linked
- Roaming or eSIM on before you land
- Hotel addresses saved in Chinese
- Train booking dates in your calendar
- Forbidden City release-day reminder
- Passport photo page saved offline
- Eight phrases for day one
Questions people ask first
Straight answers. More on the FAQ page.
Do you book hotels, trains and tickets for us?
With a Custom Itinerary, you book using our step-by-step links, so everything is in your name and on your card. If you’d rather not, choose Done-for-You: hotel, train and ticket bookings, private guides and tours are contracted and operated by our licensed partner travel agency, [Licensed partner name] (license no. [xxxx]).
Do I need a visa for China?
It depends on your passport and your route. Citizens of many countries can currently visit visa-free for up to 30 days, and travelers from many others can use the 240-hour visa-free transit when flying on to a third country. The rules change often, so check the National Immigration Administration and the Chinese embassy or consulate in your country before you book.
We’ll point you to the right official page, but this isn’t legal advice.
When does my On-Trip Pass start?
With your first message, not when you buy it. A 7-day pass covers the 7 days from that first message, so you can buy it before you fly and start it when you land.
What’s your refund policy?
In short: a Trip Check is refunded in full if we haven’t started, or if you’re unhappy within 7 days of delivery. A Custom Itinerary is fully refundable before the kickoff call and 50% refundable until the first draft; after that, our redo-then-refund guarantee applies. An On-Trip Pass you never activate is refunded in full.