China Travel Discussion List

Readers of rec.travel.asia with a particular interest in China may also
be interested in THE ORIENTAL-LIST.

Now more than ten years old and with several hundred members, the list
provides a forum for the discussion of travel in China, and across
China's borders to the nearest major centres, such as Almaty, Bishkek,
Islamabad, Kathmandu, Hanoi, and Ulaan Baatar.

The Oriental-List accepts practical travel queries; discussions of the
merits of individual destinations or routes; accounts of individual
experiences; historical and cultural material relevant to China travel;
reviews and notifications of other China travel resources (newsgroups,
publications, websites, public lectures, etc); political, legal, and
ethical matters to do with travel in China, and China travel news items.

This list is moderated to keep it free from off-topic material, personal
attacks, abuse, foul language, cross-postings, spam, or other trivia. It
is intended to be supplementary to other sources, and does not accept
queries easily answered by looking in a guide book, those in chat-room
style, or overly vague.

The answer to almost any China travel question can vary from month to
month, and so the list maintains no archive, and regards published
sources such as guide books as its FAQ file, dealing mainly in matters
beyond the scope of such books.

The Oriental-List is run entirely pro bono, carries no advertising, the
list of members is not made available to any individual or third party
organisation, and email addresses are stripped from all headers to
prevent their exploitation.

Members include those planning their first trips to China, experienced
China travellers, China-based journalists and foreign residents, as well
as the authors of several books on travel in China.

To receive further guidelines and to subscribe, send a blank email to:

subscribe-oriental-list [at] datasinica [.] com

or visit

http://www.datasinica.com

"Peter Neville-Hadley" <look@the.address.below> kirjoitti
viestissä:1ifamwt.1o2rdgzfr5azaN%look@the.address.below...
> Readers of rec.travel.asia with a particular interest in China may also
> be interested in THE ORIENTAL-LIST.
>
It is most unlike that they would do anything like that. Faggot's persistent
spamming works very efficiently against any such efforts.

On Apr 13, 7:14 pm, Markku Grönroos <kur...@hassuserveri.fi> wrote:
> "Peter Neville-Hadley" <l...@the.address.below> kirjoitti
> viestissä:1ifamwt.1o2rdgzfr5azaN%l...@the.address.below...> Readers of r=
ec.travel.asia with a particular interest in China may also
> > be interested in THE ORIENTAL-LIST.
>
> It is most unlike that they would do anything like that. Faggot's persiste=
nt
> spamming works very efficiently against any such efforts.

******I thank Peter for his patience in putting up with comments from
the racist Gronroos.

High time Markkkkkkkkkie thought about ending it all.

Peter

I 'm a new subscriber
I don't know how to send enquiries.
My plan is to go to Hangzhou, Suzhou, Shanghai in June 2008. But I
don't know where to stay at inexpensive accommodation
If possible, please help
Thanks

QB Nguyen

quocbao43@hotmail.com

In article <4f117699-6585-4068-8930-
55e61f7eba8b@l28g2000prd.googlegroups.com>, says...

> My plan is to go to Hangzhou, Suzhou, Shanghai in June 2008. But I
> don't know where to stay at inexpensive accommodation

Try the excellent Lonely Planet China forum:
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/thorntree/forum.jspa?forumID=19&keywordid=84
--

Alfred Molon
http://www.molon.de - Photos of Asia, Africa and Europe

<vohaotu@gmail.com> schrieb
> Peter
>
> I 'm a new subscriber
> I don't know how to send enquiries.
> My plan is to go to Hangzhou, Suzhou, Shanghai in June 2008. But I
> don't know where to stay at inexpensive accommodation
> If possible, please help
> Thanks

I don't think Peter will give you any other advice than come to his
website, register, login and find plenty of information for all your
questions. But not here, only on his website which is soooooooo great.
Really great. Believe me.

Anyway, if you don't like his website for whatever reason or don't know
how to use it, feel free to come back to rec.travel.asia.

Regarding your question: for getting good answers, it's helpful for the
responders to know what "inexpensive" means to you and what kind of
standards you are expecting.

cu, Thomas

<vohaotu@gmail.com> wrote:

> Peter
>
> I 'm a new subscriber
> I don't know how to send enquiries.
> My plan is to go to Hangzhou, Suzhou, Shanghai in June 2008. But I
> don't know where to stay at inexpensive accommodation
> If possible, please help

If you mean you are a subscriber to The Oriental-List then instructions
on how to post to the list are in the Welcome and Help File you were
sent on joining. But simply use your email program's 'reply' command
when viewing any message will do the job, remembering to change the
subject line and delete any irrelevant material in the body of the text.

However, if your question is simply one asking for inexpensive
accommodation in particular Chinese cities, note that The Oriental-List
does not accept postings easily answered by looking in guide books, and
you might be better simply to ask here.

If, however, you are saying that you've researched budget accommodation
and are now looking for personal recommendations based on individual
member experience, that would be acceptable on the list.

You'll need to make it clear what you mean by 'inexpensive' if you're to
get any useful response on either forum. To some the Holiday Inn is
inexpensive. To others it's about 20 times their budget.

Peter N-H
http://www.datasinica.com