Beihai Travel Guide

Never, ever go during the three "Golden Weeks （黄金周）", that is in the week of May 1st, in the week of 1st October and in the week of the Spring Festival (春节）, otherwise you'll meet plenty of nasty Chinese tourists and high rates. We arrived on April 29th and stayed until May 1st and just left when the big wave of tourists came. There are some hotels just beside the ocean and we stayed in a pretty good one (which might have changed yet). If you don't go during those three holidays, you might even get a discount (we got half the price...). Don't stay in the city center. We had a look at a hotel just near the train station and it was pretty awful, with rats running around in the toilet.