Daily Bus Tours out of Beijing are Scams 

On May 29, 2011 my wife, who is Chinese telephoned and scheduled a Bus Tour From Beijing to BaDaLing, Great Wall of China.

My wife requested the tour to BaDaLing for 4 Hours and other stops for 30RMB/person as advertised in thier flier. The next morning we were picked up by car and driven to the bus, departure location.

The bus departed at 6am, once on or way and well outside the city limits we were informed it would cost us 180RMB for the two of us. We informed the tour guide we scheduled the 30RMB per person package and did not want the 90RMB per person package. My wife called the number at which she originally scheduled the tour and they were unwilling to give us the tour package we ordered.

Once at BaDaLing we were refused admittance until we paid the 180RMB for the two of us. Under duress we paid the 180RMB.

We were at BaDaLing from 7:30am until 9:00am well under the 4 hours advertised, from 9am until 2pm we were driven to a Jade Jewelry plant and given a sales presentation, form there we were driven to a grocery store and had a 15 minute lunch. Then we were driven to The Wax Museum of the Ming Dynasty for 15 minutes from there we were driven to another Jade Jewelry store to listen to another sales presentation. we left there at around 2pm and were dropped off in the middle of Beijing at around 4pm. We walked to the subway station, took one train to a transfer station, took another train, walked to a bus stop and walked to our room arriving home 1.5 hours after being dropped off in Beijing.

Our Bus was with CIT but in the parking lots of everyone of our detination were many busses from various tour services. When departing the bus to enter each store each person was given a numbered tag and when an item was purchased the number was writen on the reciept, I am sure so the proper Bus services was given there kickback. 

So what happened on the above mentioned day was. My wife, I and many others, were stolen from and taken to points and held against our will.

The bus tour out of Changsha did not include one of the sites as advertised and we were also take to a Jade Jewlery store for a sales presentation at the end of the day. Then when we returned to Changsha we were droped off on the Expressway and had to walk down an exit ramp in traffic to get to our room.