>>2865829
kek, only anglo country that doesn't have 14 day visa free now
Sucks to be a burger some days I guess
New visa system is so fucking good

>>2866022
I really don't care to stay too long, getting a china visa isn't hard but I have to be back in the USA to do it. About 1 week in China is good enough for me to see a friend or two and have a weekend drinking.

>>2865829
You dont have to 'register' anything if you stay in a hotel, they do it for you. Airbnb or stay with friends you register yourself. Otherwise everything you wrote is correct and it should be smooth sailing.

>>2866088
Huh okay, makes sense I guess. Saw a lot of people complaining about hotel shit being complicated, but wouldn't surprise me if that's just people trying to spin the "I'll just find a place to stay when I get there" crowd.

>>2866022
>Burgers btfo! Only 10 days instead of 14!!!
Who gives a shit? It's fucking China, and it's a massive headache plan. I went when it was 3 days and that was more than enough for me to ever want to visit it again. There are way better options in E/SE Asia.

>>2866022
>Hong kong 90 day visa free
>Taiwan 90 days visa free
>KEKAROO ONLY 10 days in REAL CHYNA!
Yes anon it's such a detriment to only have only 10 days visa free in the mainland compared to the carbon copy shit that taiwan and HK offer! think of the smog you miss out on!

>>2866163
I think what happens is begpackers try to stay at local hole in the wall "hotels" which are really more like dorms for migrant workers, which are not equipped to register foreigners. Then they complain about hotels being a pain.

In 10 years staying at hotels in big and tiny cities thruout the country I've never had a single issue. Though Ive also never stayed somewhere which was <$20/nt

>>2866180
I don't know why but I almost always see exclusively german randos doing this shit.

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>>2866022
I see my opinion has rustled a few jimmys

>>2866200
I mean a US citizen can get a 5 year visa for little to no effort, you can do it entirely by mail

>>2866201
You don't understand, anon. Think of the *four* extra transit visa days our Anglo brethren get to spend in glorious Beijing.
It's unironically over, Yankeebros.

>>2866207
>implying Americans even get 2 weeks of holidays to use each year
There's a reason the rest of us think 14 days isn't enough

>>2866180
LMAO. Ignorance always speaks with the most confidence. You just said you never stayed in the cheap hotels, so how the fuck do you know what their conditions are like? You don't know anything. Classic sour grapes syndrome.
>>2866201
>mailing in an application for a visa
That sure as hell doesn't sound like "little to no effort".

>>2866576
1) I dont think you know what sour grapes means
2) Ive stayed in plenty of hotels in the $20-50/nt range which I would definitely consider cheap...maybe I have warped perspective because Im not dead broke. Is this not cheap? How does one have money to get to China but not enough for a $20/nt hotel they need to stay in manual laborer dorms?

>>2866576
>That sure as hell doesn't sound like "little to no effort".
I get this is most likely bait but if you think mailing in a packet to an agency to get a 5 year visa is too difficult, trv might not be for you. Try >>>/int/ for shitposting iyc

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>>2866564
>being a lazy bum is something to brag about
There's a reason you're a US proxy state and geopolitically irrelevant

Not the OP but I am a bit confused by the free 10 days visa for Americans. It says I need the boarding pass into China and out of China and hotel reservation. Well, I have the arrival ticket and hotel but my airline doesn't allow me to print the departure boarding pass within 1 day of departure. Do I just give them the ticket? Planning to fly to Shanghai then to Seoul btw if it matters

>>2866755
AFAIK you just need to provide a proof of ticket/booking out of the country that falls in line within the 240hr window. Essentially, you can't show up with a "I pinky promise to buy a ticket out of the country".

>>2866194
lol true they LOVE doing that
>>2866180
proper hostels are usually well equipped to take foreigners tho

>>2866659
200rmb/night is mid-range
100rmb/night is cheap
under 100 is very cheap

>>2866163
>Saw a lot of people complaining about hotel shit being complicated
It's a combo of picking cheap lodgings and being a foreigner.
There's a bit of extra paperwork for foreigners that has to be uploaded online. Technically they all have to accept laowai nowadays, but good luck making them do so. Many hotels don't have the software set up and of those that do, the reception staff sometimes has no idea how to use it. I had to go behind the desk and fill the fucking Chinese forms myself on occasion (I can speak and read a little) and in one random city I stopped along the way I got turned away from multiple hotels, including fairly decent ones, until someone finally took me in.
For your reservations, use Trip, it works a lot better in China than Booking and the like. Make it a rule to never book a place that does not have at least one foreign language review on the platform and you're golden.

>>2866776
you can also use chinese platforms like meituan and filter for hotels that take foreigners. Worst case scenario give them a call and ask if they take foreigners.

>>2866780
Filters are cool until they aren't. Back when I got turned away all of these places were specifically marked as "Accepting foreigners". Turns out they don't, they just checkmarked everything on the profile page because why the fuck not. Hence the 1 review rule, it actually confirms somebody did manage to stay there.
That or yeah, just give them a call.

>>2866776
I mean I just booked on hotels.com 400 bucks for a week was decent for the place I am staying

>>2866772
literal hostels yes as theyre almost exclusively FOR foreigners. peasant dorms which could maybe reasonably also be called hostels despite serving a very different purpose and clientele, no

100 rmb = 15/nt not far off from my 20 so I feel like Im not wrong to say Ive stayed in cheap hotels

>>2866768
Thanks. Do I need to fill out anything on the plane or just go to the kiosk for entry?

>>2866835
AFAIK, keep in mind this launched like late last year so why I am a bit uncertain, there is a digital card/tourist registration online for arrival 72hrs before taking off, you're going to need to show your booking+flights.
https://s.nia.gov.cn/ArrivalCardFillingPC/entry-registation-home

Not sure if anyone here from the USA has done this before but yeah seems straightforward compared to the do all the desk talking like before.

Not doing the shit with the hotels again just for a whiff of chink pussy.
Do not show up in China thinking its like Thailand or something.

>>2866781
oh, my experience was actually the opposite, lots of hotels that didn't mark the "takes foreigners" thing were actually fine with me when I called. I only got turned away from one hotel because I was dumb and didn't call to check. Another time I had to stay in a small rural mining town in Hebei and I was the first foreigner to ever use the hotel there and they had to get the police to come and help them set up the registration system.

>>2866838
the arrival card thing is a massive pain to do online, they used to let you handwrite it but now it's digital only

>>2866885
if you want to sexpat or degen, stay away from China
we don't need your kind giving foreigners an even worse name there

>>2866921
The only reason to go to China is for chink pussy. Everyone has already seen neon lights and crowds in Japan.
You're just not that interesting.

>>2866939
>China is just big flashy cities
Filtered by propaganda designed to wow thirdies lol

>>2866885
God thank you China for filtering the retards that plague Thailand Japan and Korea

>>2866921
>the arrival card thing is a massive pain to do online, they used to let you handwrite it but now it's digital only
No one likes the paper shit, time to stop traveling unc

It’s funny that the average 5/10 skinny fat 4channer who doesn’t speak Chinese thinks he’s getting laid by a decent girl for free on like a 3 day trip.

You need to work the apps perfectly in advance and have a roster built and ready with dates planned upon landing. As a skinny fat autist, that’s already impossible for you. Girls on the street or bars are socially dysfunctional and don’t speak English on average. So what’s your plan as a fat retard?

This is coming from a 7/10 white guy who had some success in Shanghai but was not nearly as easy as countries like the Philippines or Thailand. Even girls who imply they want to hook up expect a date at a nice place first

>>2866976
I'm sorry I liked writing my passport number down on paper instead of having to take 50 fucking photos for it to "automatically" write my information (never works) and I also liked being able to just write down my name instead of being told that it's "too long" (yeah fuck me for having a middle name right)
The paper arrival card took two minutes the online one takes twenty.

>>2866977
China is difficult to "hook up" per se (they don't really have the same culture of that as the west, unless you're gay) but it's easy to get a girlfriend

>>2866977
True you cant be a total slob like SEA and theres no p4p scene (that can be accessed without language/local guide anyway, and with legal risk that makes it not worth it) but its also not entirely true that you can't just wing it. If you are not fat and not horrifically ugly there are unofficial-official foreigner hookup bars in almost every city that if you show up on a given night and competition isnt too fierce the odds are well in your favor to go home with someone.

>>2866997
Name one such bar

>>2866999
Easy
>Revolucion in Shanghai, Chengdu, and Guangzhou (or any other city its now opened in)
>The Drinkery in Shanghai (two locations)
>The Irish pub by sanshajie station in Nanjing (forgot name but desu any Irish pub is a safe bet)
>Jellyfish or one of its reboots in Chengdu

Not giving you any more freebies

>>2866988
>take 50 fucking photos for it to "automatically" write my information (never works)
unc upgrade your phone from iphone 4, stop drinking for 3 days to get the shakes away and take it in a well lit room.

> I also liked being able to just write down my name instead of being told that it's "too long" (yeah fuck me for having a middle name right)
What is a middle initial, who's middle name is too long or longer than 16 characters are you hindi?

>>2866988
>China is difficult to "hook up" per se (they don't really have the same culture of that as the west,
An anon with an overweight body, bad hairline, and brown hands typed this

>>2867003
Unreal that I dropped such alpha for free and you kneegroes are going to let the thread die