Originally Posted by
Akiestar
Hi guys. I'm headed to Hong Kong for a conference next month, but since I'm leaving the week before I was planning to go somewhere in China in the few days (3-4 days) I have prior to the conference. Based on distance and cost, I decided to try out Hainan, but I would like to ask a few questions:
1. Is it worth it?
2. What should I see aside from the beach in Sanya?
Also, I was checking out quotations on Ctrip, and while the ticket price is attractive (1100 RMB so far to Haikou from SZX, and I hope it will go lower), for some reason it's forcing me to input a Chinese phone number as an SMS itinerary will be sent to me. Unfortunately, as my number expired a long time ago and I lost the SIM card, is there a way I can go around this?
Thanks and hope to hear from some of you soon.
If you want the beach in Sanya, then fly there directly, not to Haikou. I don't think your price is all that good. On travelzen.com, I'm seeing Shenzhen-Sanya tickets one-way all-in for under RMB 700 (on the night flights) and even full fare all-in for day flights is only RMB 1050. It is annoyingly expensive given the relatively short distance, but there you are. If you are flying into HKG, then look into direct HKG-SYX flights on HK Express or Dragonair--I'm seeing some days in August for HKD 1693 all-in each way.
On phone number, AFAIK there's no way to get SMS notification without a Chinese SIM. So...just get an email confirmation rather than an SMS one. Assuming you have a smart device, you can access your email from that. If you end up getting a new SIM in HK or China, you can always add it to your ctrip profile and change your preference from email to SMS notification.
Now the big question: if you ask me whether Sanya is worth it, I'd say "No" and particularly not during the monsoon/rainy season, which is when you propose to visit.