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Anonymous10/13/25, 03:20No.2832101
Has anyone actually visited the Forbidden City or the National Museum in Beijing or is it only reserved for scalptroons and tourfags nowadays?
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Anon10/13/25, 04:55No.2832116
I did but that was back in the early 2010s when you could pay in cash for everything and rock up to the Forbidden City same day and go in no problem
I wouldn't bother traveling to China now, or at least not until they unfuck the retarded rules for hotels/tickets/transport/payment systems for tourists and foreigners
>inb4 noooo bro you just gotta get 3 VPNs (in case the other vpns don't work) and you gotta get a second phone and you gotta give your credit card to wechat and alipay and sometimes those don't work either so take cash (but they may not readily accept it) and make sure the hotel is foreigner friendly because most aren't and...
China can fuck off with this shit. I'll just go to Taiwan or Japan instead and have a better experience anyways
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Anon10/13/25, 12:10No.2832199
I went there a few weeks ago, you have to get the tickets for the forbidden city and the square separately but it's possible. however there is a fuck ton of queuing thanks to all the domestic tourists. avoid the mao corpse tour
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Anon10/13/25, 12:18No.2832201
Been in January this year, so your experience may vary since it was hardly crowded by then.
>Forbidden City
Didn't have to book shit. Just go around the moat and you'll end up behind Tiananmen at the ticket office. Walk up, buy the ticket and go in. Might be a good idea to do this early in the day since they probably have visitor limits.
>National Museum
Haven't been, but I went to check out Mao's corpse and the square. I feigned ignorance to a checkpoint guard before I went to the Forbidden City and he was kind enough to book me a slot for the next day at 11AM through his Weixin.
DO NOT do anything that requires an entry ticket on weekends by the way. Weekends are of the devil.
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Anon10/14/25, 09:10No.2832492
i went to those places when i worked in china years ago
do you really have to get tickets for tiananmen square now? how does that even work? it's a massive fucking square in the middle of the city.
also i didn't pre book for the imperial palace (forbidden city), i just bought a ticket on the spot. of course i had to fight my way through the legions of touts and "tour guides" and so on first. but i had good practice beforehand from pushing aside the masses of pirate dvd sellers who lined up outside my hotel, and dodging the child beggars who zigzagged in front of me as i walked down the street, and the fake rolex sellers who pestered me as i just sat doing nothing in particular, and the girls who wanted me to go to their cousin's tea shop, etc etc
fucking china. it's second on the list headed "places i'll probably never go again and i'm really not that bothered about it", after saudi fucking arabia