Transit through Beijing – Languages?

8/28/2014 11:59:43 AM

Airport in Beijing is international. All signs used Chinese and English. Airport staff mostly able to speak English.

Road from airport to city center will takes about 20 minutes on Airport Express. You will have enough time to make a small walk or get a delicious dinner. Near Dongzhimen station you can find a lot of good shopping centers.

Airport Express time table

  Dongzhimen -> Sanyuanqiao  -  4 min
  Sanyuanqiao  -> T3         - 19 min
  T3 -> T2                   - 14 min
  T2 -> Sanyuanqiao          - 17 min
  Sanyuanqiao -> Dongzhimen  -  4 min
8/28/2014 10:27:00 AM

At Beijing Airport you will easily find your way around. All signs are bilingual (Chinese/English). You cannot really mis where you need to go. I cannot vouch for the staff, however.

Forget visiting the city. If you have a 6-hours layover, you want to be back at the airport 2 hours before. Getting to the city center (i.e. Tiananmen Square) will take you at least an hour, but also on the airport itself, the distances will be quite large, you need to take a kind of metro on the airport itself as well. Queues for a security check took me also another half an hour. Basically in the best case (you know where and how to buy tickets with yuans) you might be left with less than half an hour in the city.

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