Hey everyone! You all said you would help if you could! So come on, let’s see it - we have a request for information about hotels that cost 200rmb a night or less, in the central area of Shantou. I’m not in Shantou any more… any ...

Maggie Ad posted on September 6th, 2007 under: Visitors | Tag: Hotel | 4 Comments »

My eight year old daughter was born in Shantou and then adopted to the United States when she was just a baby.   She is such an intelligent child, and started asking questions about her birth city when she was just three years old, wanting to know e...

Amy Eldridge posted on July 27th, 2007 under: Shantouer, Visitors | Tag: Family | 6 Comments »

I am not impressed by the Shenshan Expressway (深汕高速公路), it is no longer very express.  It took me over 9 hours from Guangzhou to Shantou yesterday, where it usually takes 5 1/2.  It was crawling all the way down.  A tip for our transpor...

Maggie Ad posted on February 16th, 2007 under: Visitors, Living in ST | Tag: buses, transport | 3 Comments »

There is a travel agent in Manchester that is also in Milton Keynes, London, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Paris, Beijing and Shanghai. They are a Chinese travel agent - I think Richard has talked about this type of travel agent on his own blog - but if you...

Maggie Ad posted on February 11th, 2007 under: Visitors | Tag: travel | 2 Comments »

Regarding transport in Shantou, particularly train tickets from Guangzhou, there are some nice people (no English though) just near where all the bars are that have a possibly somewhat illegal bus station - but also a very useful ticket office.  I ha...

Maggie Ad posted on February 7th, 2007 under: Visitors | Tag: trains, travel | No Comments »

Another travel company recommendation.  I have yet to research this more widely, but there is a bus Shantou-Xiamen that gets there in 3hrs flat.  This is amazing, usually it takes 4, five if you get a crappy bus that circles Shantou for an hour befo...

Maggie Ad posted on December 17th, 2006 under: Visitors, Living in ST | Tag: Jinsha Road, travel | 5 Comments »

Another recommendation due to great service I received.  GOES (Guangdong Overseas Education Services, 广东侨谊海外交流服务中心汕头分公司) is also a simple travel agent, well not that simple, it is one of the few places in Shantou tha...

Maggie Ad posted on December 17th, 2006 under: Visitors | Tag: Jinsha Road, shops, travel | 3 Comments »

There were a few questions about how to fly to Shantou from abroad. There is no international airport in Shantou, the closest two are in Hong Kong and Guangzhou. I haven’t fly through the one in Guangzhou before, but maybe worthwhile to mention ...

Richard.H posted on December 16th, 2006 under: Visitors | Tag: Hong Kong, travel | 12 Comments »