Travel to China for 10 days

Thanks Peter. They have taken small trips on Train in China. They love
them. This should be fine. I can always get a flight ticket more
easily then train tickets, if I have to change it (if the kids are
tired).

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5. Things to carry?

When travelling in China there are two rules that you will very much regret
breaking:

1) never, ever, ever, drink the tap water (don't even use it for cleaning
your teeth),
2) don't forget to take toilet paper with you everywhere.

So the answer to this question is: branded bottled water (check the seals
before you buy) and toilet paper.

Oh, and I think your tour is ridiculously optimistic!

tim

"Alfred Molon" <alfred_molon@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> In article <6bg2esF3b098oU1@mid.individual.net>, tims next home says...
>>
>> When travelling in China there are two rules that you will very much
>> regret
>> breaking:
>>
>> 1) never, ever, ever, drink the tap water (don't even use it for cleaning
>> your teeth),
>> 2) don't forget to take toilet paper with you everywhere.
>>
>> So the answer to this question is: branded bottled water (check the seals
>> before you buy) and toilet paper.
>
> What a nonsense. In all places where I stayed they had clean western
> style toilets with toilet papers

I wasn't referring to "places where one stays", I was referring to "whilst
one is out and about". This is what the question was about.

> and brushing the teeth with tap water
> caused no problems.

Until you get unlucky. You are probably right that this might be
unnecessary, but who's to know

> It sounds you have been staying in extremely cheap low-end places with
> shared toilets.

The water in the most expensive hotel comes from the same place as the
grottiest flee-pit. If a town's water isn't treated by the municipality,
then it isn't treated by the hotel. I was only following advice give to me
by colleagues, all of whom, without exception, had been ill whilst there.

tim

On Jun 13, 1:08 pm, "tims next home" <tims_new_h...@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:
> 1) never, ever, ever, drink the tap water (don't even use it for cleaning
> your teeth),
We always heard the same advice, even from some locals living in a
very ritzy part of Shanghai.

Our tour operator supplied us with 2 small bottles of water per day,
about 1 liter total. All of the hotels had electric teapots, and we
boiled water for brushing our teeth and other uses while at the
hotel. With that strategy and all the liquids we got with the meals,
we did not use up all of the bottled water (and we never even used any
of the camper's water purification supplies that we brought).

I am not disputing the posting that it might be safe to brush with tap
water, just providing a way to reduce spending money on bottled water.

My other observation is that it was hard to avoid all ingetion of tap
water while showering, but it seemed prudent to miimize the exposure.

On Jun 13, 2:56 pm, "tims next home" <tims_new_h...@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:
> "Alfred Molon" <alfred_mo...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > In article <6bg2esF3b098...@mid.individual.net>, tims next home says...
> >> 2) don't forget to take toilet paper with you everywhere.
>
> >> So the answer to this question is: branded bottled water (check the seals
> >> before you buy) and toilet paper.
>
> > What a nonsense. In all places where I stayed they had clean western
> > style toilets with toilet papers
>
> I wasn't referring to "places where one stays", I was referring to "whilst
> one is out and about".  This is what the question was about.
When we stayed at a budget hotel in Beijing (Super 8), the amount of
toilet paper that came with the room was clearly inadequate, but they
sold rolls in the lobby convenience store. For me, it was the only
time I used the TP that I had broaght. Males have less need for TP.
The women in our group had more opportunities to rely on thier own
supplies.

"Alfred Molon" <alfred_molon@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> In article <6b00e8f1-2961-4ae7-b568-fe5d2544cbe4
> @r37g2000prm.************.com>, jfeng@my-deja.com says...
>
>> When we stayed at a budget hotel in Beijing (Super 8), the amount of
>> toilet paper that came with the room was clearly inadequate, but they
>> sold rolls in the lobby convenience store.
>
> Since hotels in China are very cheap anyway,

As I said in the other thread. Try walking into the Holiday Inn without a
booking and see if they are cheap!

4 star hotels in China are affordable if pre-booked, but the rack rate if
you just turn up are New York prices.

And (given the comments already made about the certainty of train bookings)
it is not always possible to pre-book.

tim

[fanlaw]

There are more sightseeing spot in different cities like Guilin, Shanghai, Beijing in China.