MyGoAsiaTrip
Travel China with confidence.
Everything you need for a smooth trip to China — payments, data, trains, emergencies and city routes, written for people who have never been here before.
Travel guide
The five guides that cover the hard parts
Each one is written as a sequence of actions, not an essay. Every claim that can expire carries a review date.
Payment in China
Alipay first, WeChat Pay as backup, ¥300–500 cash as a floor. Plus the exact fixes when a payment silently fails.
Read the guideInternet & eSIM
Buy a travel eSIM (international routing) before you fly, install everything on hotel Wi-Fi, and expect to switch between two app ecosystems.
Read the guideTravel costs
¥350–550 a day backpacking, ¥800–1,300 mid-range, ¥2,000+ premium. The big variables are hotels, cable cars and intercity rail — not food.
Read the guideTransport
12306 or Trip.com for trains, a separate transport QR code for metro, DiDi for taxis, and never follow a tout at arrivals.
Read the guideEmergency help
110 police, 120 ambulance, 119 fire, 122 traffic. For a lost passport: police report, then your embassy, then exit formalities.
Read the guideVisa & entry
Check the National Immigration Administration site for your nationality, carry proof of onward travel and a hotel address, and register your stay within 24 hours.
Read the guideDestinations
Cities, with the logistics sorted
Airport transfers, metro basics, where to sleep, and a 2–4 day route you can actually walk.
Routes
Multi-city trips, in the order that works
Three itineraries built around the bookings that actually block you — ticket windows, station names, and how far the airport really is.
Tools
Things you use, not things you read
Both work offline, both store nothing on a server, and neither asks you to create an account.
Trip checklist
27 items across the two weeks before you fly and the first 24 hours after you land. Saves your progress in the browser.
Phrase cards
60 useful sentences with Chinese characters, pinyin and audio. Copy the text, or hold the screen up to a driver.
Booking & deals
eSIM plans, hotels, airport transfers and attraction tickets — with the disclosure we owe you on every link.
How we work
Official sources, cited
Phone numbers, rules and fees are checked against government or provider documentation, and the source list sits at the bottom of each guide.
How we work
Reviewed, dated, corrected
Every guide shows the date it was last reviewed. If something is out of date, the feedback button on the page reaches us directly.
How we work
Free, and openly commercial
Guides and tools are free. Some booking links pay us a commission. It never changes the order of our recommendations, and it is labelled.
Start with the checklist
Fifteen things to do before you fly, twelve to do in your first day. It takes about ten minutes and prevents most of the problems on this site.