Originally Posted by
tassie6
Hey all, this is a great resource.
Heading to China next week, everything for 144hr TWOV in place. Australian citizen, arriving from Seoul to PEK, staying within Hebei province, have hotel confirmation for full duration, leaving to Singapore in under the time limit from PEK.
Just checking that when filling in arrival card, that visiting for business is ok to tick when doing TWOV? Think I read it somewhere a while ago that is all good, and I can’t find any reason online that you couldn’t, but just checking for everyone’s experiences.
Would have preferred to get a visa, but would have meant travelling to a different state here in Aus as they are not accepting postal applications, and just wasn’t going to work out easily.
cheers for any help
Hey all,
Arrived in China yesterday, some feedback on the TWOV 144hr process:
- Our route is in from South Korea, stay 5 nights in China, leaving to Singapore/Australia. Australian citizens.
- Asiana Airlines checkin desk at Seoul was fine, she had to make a phone call (don’t speak Korean so don’t know what she was saying), it took about 15mins but just wanted to see our ongoing itinerary.
- In Beijing, PEK, took a minute of asking to find the right desk, had to walk past immigration then kind of back out towards other gates and do a hard U-Turn to find it. Would depend which gate you arrived at. We arrived at E11 so was on the opposite side of terminal to the desk. If you arrived at about E27/E29 or at least on that side of the terminal you would be right near it I think and much easier to find.
- Two people in front of us but only took 10mins, filled in the form and showed him ongoing tickets and hotel accommodation. He double checked our incoming boarding passes to see where we had come in from.
- He did seem a little offput that we were going to Shijiazhuang (still in Hebei, so allowed) for first two nights, so showed him second hotel reservation in Beijing for last three nights and that sorted it out. He did reiterate don’t go to Shanghai, Guangzhou etc. Asked how we were getting to Shijiazhuang and we just said on the train.
- Then to normal immigration line, they actually asked for ongoing ticket again there which we didn’t expect, but easy to supply. Then straight on through.
Hoping that helps anyone planning a trip!