I'm thinking about doing a 4 days/3 nights tour of Beijing. It's a package deal from DragonAir. What can anybody tell me about DragonAir and their tours? I will fly from Hong Kong. How are their planes? How are the tour guides? Also how is the Palace Hotel in Beijing?

Not sure about the actual package deal itself, but DragonAir is good (modern plane, polite and helpful staff). Palace Hotel Beijing is pretty central (in the Wangfujang area), close to the Dong'An shopping centre and about 15-20 minutes walk to Tiananmen Square / Forbidden City. Again very helpful hotel staff and the rooms are comfortable.

I flew Dragon Air between Hong Kong and Thailand. They were fine. I beleive they have an affiliation, and may even be owned by, Cathay Pacific.

Dragonair is owned partly by Cathay Pacific and they are excellent so I would pressume their tours are good too. I have flown with them often. Their fleet is very modern, mainly Airbus 320's and 330's.

Thanks everybody, I did make the reservation. It includes flight, hotel, great wall tour, forbidden city, etc...etc....<BR>Any more info on the actual tours would be greatly appreciated.<BR>Thanks again...