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# Beijing, After the Conference

3 days from the trade floor to a tea table and the Beijing behind it

The city, off duty. Lakeside hutongs, the Summer Palace, the Temple of Heaven and a cloisonné bench, with an English-speaking guide throughout.

- Light: city walking and park paths; the longest stretch is the Summer Palace morning, cut to fit your pace.

## Overview

Conference Beijing is a real place: badge lanyards, shuttle loops, a skyline through tinted glass. A short drive north, the same city keeps lakes, lanes and courtyards on an entirely different clock. This plan starts the afternoon your last session ends, because that afternoon usually gets thrown away. Three days, one city, no flights. Lanes and a tea table change your pace; the lakeside palace and the national collection put everything in order; a slow morning of heaven and handwork sends you off. Evenings stay unscheduled: your inbox comes along, it just doesn't get daylight. You'll fly home with a piece you finished at a workshop bench, and a Beijing no slide deck ever showed you.

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Every LyrikTrip journey begins with a conversation. Tell us your conference dates and your flight home, and we shape the three days backward from both. First reply within four hours; a clear price for your dates within one business day. If your closing session moves, day one moves with it: that is the point of this plan.

## Summary

- Route ID: beijing-business-break-3-days
- Duration: 3 days / 2 nights
- Starting price: $1,200
- Status: active
- Highlights: Beijing
- Cover image: https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/jGhAKBma.webp

## Hero tags

- private
- From 1 guest
- Max: no fixed limit

## Highlight notes

- The city, off duty. Lakeside hutongs, the Summer Palace, the Temple of Heaven and a cloisonné bench, with an English-speaking guide throughout.
- 3 days from the trade floor to a courtyard tea table. Meet the city behind your meetings.

## Selling points

- Trade the exhibition hall for Shichahai's lakeside lanes the same afternoon: courtyard doorways, water, old Beijing going about its evening.
- See the court's lakeside Beijing across the Summer Palace water in the morning, then find it again on the National Museum's timeline after lunch: the second look is when the city starts to make sense.
- Keep every evening: days end by dinner, so calls, mail and a hotel desk still fit.
- Fly out with the piece you finished that morning at a cloisonné bench: the one physical souvenir this plan schedules.

## City highlights

- Beijing (3 days): Out of the hall, into the lanes
  - Image: https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/jGhAKBma.webp

## Experiences

The city, off duty. Lakeside hutongs, the Summer Palace, the Temple of Heaven and a cloisonné bench, with an English-speaking guide throughout.

- Hutong & Shichahai Walk (Beijing): the neighborhood fabric old Beijing still lives in: gray courtyard houses, narrow lanes, lakes ringed with willows, and the Drum and Bell Towers that once told the whole city the time. You walk it with your guide on your arrival day, paced to however much energy your flight has left you; land late and the lanes simply wait for another evening. Why it opens the trip: the palaces show how emperors lived; the hutongs show how everyone else did, and they came first.
  - Subtitle: the neighborhood fabric old Beijing still lives in: gray courtyard houses, narrow
  - Tags: City
  - Host: Beijing, Beijing Lens — Imperial capital and Great Wall
  - Access: Why it opens the trip: the palaces show how emperors lived; the hutongs show how everyone else did, and they came first.
  - Images: https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/c24addfaebbd.jpg, https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/f8eee3ac9120.jpg, https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/63616b80ebb4.jpg, https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/fe9f94178424.jpg, https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/c3750a516f25.jpg, https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/b76ac68047c9.jpg, https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/813e0ad5e32f.jpg, https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/8f53a337fbca.jpg, https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/748ea658803d.jpg, https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/61793c2d137e.jpg
- Tea sitting, an introduction to the gaiwan (beijing): an hour at a courtyard tea table with your first proper gaiwan, the lidded cup China brews in: someone shows you how to brew, pour and hold it. Two teas, tasted side by side. Scheduled after the hutong walk, before dinner.
  - Subtitle: an hour at a courtyard tea table with your first proper gaiwan, the lidded cup China brews in: someone shows you how to brew, pour and hold it.
  - Tags: hands-on
  - Host: Beijing, Beijing Lens — Imperial capital and Great Wall
  - Access: Scheduled after the hutong walk, before dinner.
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- Summer Palace (Beijing): Summer Palace shows a softer side of imperial Beijing through gardens pavilions and Kunming Lake.
  - Subtitle: A lakeside imperial retreat in Beijing
  - Tags: Palace
  - Host: Beijing, Beijing Lens — Imperial capital and Great Wall
  - Access: A scenic palace experience balancing architecture gardens and lake views.
  - Images: https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/71586f3562d9.jpg, https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/ea68b2475e47.jpg, https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/b4499e0e26a7.jpg, https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/f590f43973c3.jpg, https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/3032d5b8a45d.jpg, https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/8d7933a30cad.jpg, https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/4dbc4bd884d0.jpg, https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/79273bffc29e.jpg, https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/8e4e68286eda.jpg, https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/7d5c7c7b6f02.jpg
- NMC: One Room for Nine Days (Beijing): the national collection on the east side of the square: bronzes, ceramics, Buddhist figures, calligraphy. Two hours here puts the objects behind the last nine days into one room, which is why it sits on the day you leave Beijing. Entry is by timed reservation and the system sits poorly with overseas mobile numbers, so your quote states in writing who books it and by when. Admission is in the base price; audio guides and guides hired inside are not.
  - Subtitle: the national collection on the east side of the square: bronzes, ceramics, Buddhist figures, calligraphy.
  - Tags: Museum
  - Host: Beijing, Beijing Lens — Imperial capital and Great Wall
  - Access: the national collection on the east side of the square: bronzes, ceramics, Buddhist figures, calligraphy. Two hours here puts the objects behind the last nine days into one room, which is why it sits on the day you leave Beijing. Entry is by timed reservation and the system sits poorly with overseas mobile numbers, so your quote states in writing who books it and by when. Admission is in the base price; audio guides and guides hired inside are not.
  - Images: https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/1cf05dc82e49.jpg, https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/d076400ad86d.jpg, https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/55ab6f174707.jpg, https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/dcce08639678.jpg
- Cloisonné Workshop (Beijing): Beijing's enamel art, taken apart step by step: metal shaping, wire inlay, enamel coloring, firing and polishing. After watching the stages, you make a simple cloisonné-style piece of your own under professional guidance: the first of the four things you take home from this journey. Included.
  - Subtitle: Beijing's enamel art, taken apart step by step: metal shaping, wire inlay
  - Tags: Craft
  - Host: Beijing, Beijing Lens — Imperial capital and Great Wall
  - Access: Included.
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## Itinerary

### Beijing, After the Conference - 3 days

Journey

#### Beijing (3 days)

- Subtitle: Out of the hall, into the lanes
- Recommendation: The conference ends at midday. The city starts where the shuttle loop stops.
- Transport: Flight
- Transport mode: airplane

Pickup, wherever the day leaves you · Shichahai hutongs · Tea sitting · Evening

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##### Day 1: Out of the hall, into the lanes

- (transport) — your driver meets you at the venue or your hotel when the closing session actually ends; a late finish just shortens the walk, not the plan.
- (sight) — you walk courtyard lanes and lakeside streets, gray brick and doorway stones on both sides of you, old Beijing running its late-afternoon errands. By the water, the light goes long across the lake while the neighborhood comes out for its evening: stand on the bank a minute; that is the picture you keep.
- (sight) — an hour at a courtyard tea table: your first proper gaiwan, someone showing you how to brew, pour and hold it, two teas to tell apart. Somewhere in the second cup, you'll notice you've stopped checking the time.
- (note) — yours, and meant to be: your guide recommends and books dinner around your taste (on your account), or the laptop opens back at the hotel; nothing else is scheduled.
- (accommodation) Novotel Beijing Peace — Hotel stay in Beijing.

##### Day 2: The lake and the timeline

- (sight) — a full morning at the estate where the late Qing court spent its summers: the second Beijing that the Empress Dowager Cixi ran from a garden. Give the lake shore an unhurried half hour: water on one side of you, palace rooflines climbing away on the other; that is the morning's picture. Your guide trims the loop to your legs and the cold.
- (dining) — near the palace or back in town: your guide books it, on your account.
- (sight) — your timed entry is booked ahead by us, so you walk in on schedule. Inside: bronzes, ceramics, sculpture, calligraphy: the country you deal with all year, laid out in order for once. You'll start placing things: this morning's palace, a client's hometown, the bronze in front of you, all on one line.
- (note) — unscheduled again: dinner where your guide points you, then the hotel desk is all yours.

##### Day 3: Heaven, handwork, home

- (sight) — you stand where Ming and Qing emperors prayed for the harvest: the Hall of Prayer, the Imperial Vault, the Circular Mound. One axis, a single grammar: circles for heaven, squares for earth. Stand at the center of the Circular Mound and look up: a round of sky fitted to a round of stone.
- (sight) — about ninety minutes at a bench under an artisan's eye: wire outlines on copper, color filled in, a shine that comes from fire. What you finish rides home in your carry-on. An hour in, you'll look up from the wire and realize the flight has stopped being the day's main event.

## Daily plan

### Day 1 — Out of the hall, into the lanes

The conference ends at midday. The city starts where the shuttle loop stops.

- Pickup, wherever the day leaves you: your driver meets you at the venue or your hotel when the closing session actually ends; a late finish just shortens the walk, not the plan.
- Shichahai hutongs: you walk courtyard lanes and lakeside streets, gray brick and doorway stones on both sides of you, old Beijing running its late-afternoon errands. By the water, the light goes long across the lake while the neighborhood comes out for its evening: stand on the bank a minute; that is the picture you keep.
- Tea sitting: an hour at a courtyard tea table: your first proper gaiwan, someone showing you how to brew, pour and hold it, two teas to tell apart. Somewhere in the second cup, you'll notice you've stopped checking the time.
- Evening: yours, and meant to be: your guide recommends and books dinner around your taste (on your account), or the laptop opens back at the hotel; nothing else is scheduled.
- Stay: Beijing
- Meals: None included today; dinner guide-booked, on your account

### Day 2 — The lake and the timeline

A morning on the court's lake, an afternoon in the national collection. Second looks are when Beijing starts to make sense.

- Summer Palace: a full morning at the estate where the late Qing court spent its summers: the second Beijing that the Empress Dowager Cixi ran from a garden. Give the lake shore an unhurried half hour: water on one side of you, palace rooflines climbing away on the other; that is the morning's picture. Your guide trims the loop to your legs and the cold.
- Lunch: near the palace or back in town: your guide books it, on your account.
- National Museum of China: your timed entry is booked ahead by us, so you walk in on schedule. Inside: bronzes, ceramics, sculpture, calligraphy: the country you deal with all year, laid out in order for once. You'll start placing things: this morning's palace, a client's hometown, the bronze in front of you, all on one line.
- Evening: unscheduled again: dinner where your guide points you, then the hotel desk is all yours.
- Stay: Beijing
- Meals: Breakfast at the hotel

### Day 3 — Heaven, handwork, home

One altar, one workbench, then the airport. The last morning is kept slow on purpose.

- Temple of Heaven: you stand where Ming and Qing emperors prayed for the harvest: the Hall of Prayer, the Imperial Vault, the Circular Mound. One axis, a single grammar: circles for heaven, squares for earth. Stand at the center of the Circular Mound and look up: a round of sky fitted to a round of stone.
- Cloisonné workshop: about ninety minutes at a bench under an artisan's eye: wire outlines on copper, color filled in, a shine that comes from fire. What you finish rides home in your carry-on. An hour in, you'll look up from the wire and realize the flight has stopped being the day's main event.
- Stay: Trip ends
- Meals: Breakfast at the hotel

## Hotels

### Atour Hotel (Beijing West Railway Station South Square)

- City: Beijing
- Description: Upscale local hotel near Beijing West Railway Station South Square.
- Image: https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/dHqyz391.webp

### Atour Hotel, Liuliqiao, Beijing West Railway Station

- City: Beijing
- Description: Upscale local hotel near Beijing West Railway Station and Liuliqiao.
- Image: https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/gLxP4Hxa.webp

### Sofitel Beijing Central

- City: Beijing
- Description: Luxury international hotel in central Beijing with refined comfort and service.
- Image: https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/itT5uc1l.webp

### Beijing Marriott Hotel Northeast

- City: Beijing
- Description: International high-end hotel in Beijing, suitable for business and city stays.
- Image: https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/bWOFYezP.jpg

## Included / Excluded

### What's Included

- Private vehicle: Air-conditioned private vehicle for all listed touring, pickup at your venue or hotel on day one, airport drop-off on day three
- Hotel: 2 nights in selected four-star, five-star or quality boutique stays, breakfast included
- Guide: Licensed English-speaking guide on all three days
- Tickets & experiences: All listed attractions, with the museum's timed reservation booked by us, plus the tea sitting and the cloisonné workshop
- Insurance: Travel accident insurance

### Not Included

- Flights: Your flight home, and any travel before day one: your conference arrangements stay your own
- Meals: Beyond the included breakfasts, lunches and dinners stay flexible: your guide recommends and books around your taste each day
- Optional add-ons: Quoted separately when you choose them; nothing optional is added by default
- Personal: Visas, gratuities, single supplement, personal spending

### Special Notes

A few things on this route follow your schedule or the season. Here they are, told straight.

- Start time: day one has no fixed start: it begins when your closing session ends. A late finish shortens the hutong walk; the tea table keeps its hour.
- Museum reservation: entry is by timed reservation and the system favors local phone numbers; we book your slot with the details from your confirmation.
- Season: October to December Beijing runs cold and dry; this plan puts its long outdoor mornings first and keeps afternoons indoors or at a bench.
- Optional add-on (not yet on sale): the Simatai Great Wall by night is sold only as its own separate evening. About 8 hours door to door including dinner, it takes the whole evening, and there is no work window that night. We open booking once the operator's winter schedule and cold-weather arrangements are verified; quoted separately, never added by default.
- Hotels & venues: named in your confirmation; "or similar" always means the same class and comparable location, never a quiet downgrade.

## Is Three Days Your Length?

Two days instead of three?

### Two days instead of three?

Each day stands on its own, so we cut days, not corners: tell us your flight and we shape backward from it.

## Good to Know

- Group: Private, just your party. From 1 guest. No fixed maximum party size.
- Start: Day one starts from your conference venue or hotel, the afternoon your sessions end
- Ports: Starts and ends in Beijing; airport drop-off included on the final afternoon
- Visas: Most guests on this line are already in China; at booking we check your remaining stay window against your entry date and flights, before any payment
- Language: English-speaking licensed guide throughout
- Payment: A 10% deposit (minimum $399) locks your dates; the balance is due 14 days before departure
- Flexibility: Days are built to stand alone and start times flex with your schedule; the change and refund terms for your dates are listed in writing with your quote
- Season: October to December: cold, dry Beijing; outdoor mornings, indoor afternoons

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## Before You Book

Everything worth knowing before you book.

### My last session might overrun. Does the plan survive that?

Yes: day one has no fixed start. Your driver waits, the hutong walk shortens and the tea table keeps its hour; nothing later in the trip depends on that afternoon.

### I've been to Beijing for work but never seen the Great Wall. Can it fit?

Yes: ask us to rebuild day two around the Great Wall at Mutianyu, cable car up, toboggan down if you like. It replaces the morning rather than stretching the day, and evenings stay free either way.

### Will my evenings really stay free?

Yes, by design: every scheduled day ends by dinner, and your guide books dinner only if you want it. The one exception is the optional Great Wall evening add-on, which takes a full evening and never joins the plan by default.

### Do the extra days fit my visa?

Usually yes, and we check before you pay. The UK, most of Europe and Canada enter visa-free for days; so do Australia and New Zealand. We confirm your entry date, conference days and these three days all fit inside that window. If you hold a Chinese visa, the days simply count within your permitted stay. If you entered visa-free under the 10-day transit policy, the whole stay must fit that window and your onward flight must leave for a third country or region: we verify both at booking, and if it doesn't fit, we say so instead of selling.