Originally Posted by
moondog
Are you staying near National Library? If so, my answers would be very different than if Chaoyang or downtown. In Beijing, it's especially important (and not that hard) to take geography and logistics seriously at all times.
Doing Temple of Heaven and the Great Wall in the same day strikes me is a silly idea unless you're staying close to ToH (it's a good early morning attraction).
Yes, we're at the Hubei hotel and as far as I can tell the closest subway is National Library.
So my coworker's sister told her it's an hour to the Wall so that's why she wants to do it....4 hours for that and 4 hours for ToH doesn't seem that unreasonable to me....However, if I can tell her it would take 2 hrs travel time or whatever, that would be helpful!
Dinner near hotel on Sunday is a separate question :-)