Keep this in mind for the next time you are planning a trip to China…

There’s a company here that we came across recently, called Bespoke Beijing. They specialise in providing customised travel services, tours, airport pick-up services and similar. Their prices are better than if you use your hotel’s service (and many hotels actually outsource these service offerings to Bespoke Beijing), and you get some pretty nice service from them.

To give you an idea, a pickup from the airport to any hotel in Beijing will cost RMB400, while the use of a car and driver for a day will set you back RMB800. A trip to the Great Wall is RMB980.

More than that, they also offer expert tour guides. You want a tour guide who can explain the city architecture? No problem, they have a retired professor of architecture on their books. You want to know where the best restaurants, night clubs and other attractions are? They can provide a guide.

They also offer a special service that is good for those of you who may be a little nervous about getting around in China. They can issue you with a mobile phone that is preloaded with numbers you can call for anything - translation service, your hotel, first aid, police and so on.

You can contact Bespoke Beijing at www.bespokebeijing.com, or contact us at AZ China and we will put you on to them.