Beijing Airport Safety Tips - Be Safe than Sorry!

Beijing Airport Safety Tips– Please Read Carefully & Remember to be on Your Guard at Beijing Capital International Airport.

1. Upon departure, porters may want 10RMB to wheel your bags 50m to check-in.

2. Most eating options are rather outrageously priced. Thus, if you really need to eat, try the KFC in the Terminal 1 and Terminal 2. You can also eat the relatively low priced restaurants in the basement. A meal at any of these places should be around 20 RMB.

3. Many people use taxicabs to reach town from the airport. Try to get the Chinese name in characters of your hotel so that you can let your taxi driver read where you want to go. A taxi from the airport should cost 70-120 RMB. You will have to pay the fee shown on the meter (make sure the driver uses it) plus 10 RMB toll for the airport expressway. Traffic jams are common.

Beijing Airport Safety: Scams at the Airport

At Your Arrival: Please take your taxis from the stand outside. Do Not believe and travel with the touts inside.

Always insist on the meter.

Be aware of another scam where impostors who pretend to work for the taxi company pose at the official-looking stands outside offering rides to the city.

This is especially in the non-regular hours where there are not many people about.

You will be led into a "taxi" with a fake meter which runs very quickly – charging you at least 200-300 RMB to the City.

At Your Departure: Ignore any people walking around offering to sell you an exit fee ticket/receipt.

There used to be an airport construction (or exit) fee of 90 RMB but now it is included in the plane ticket.