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Family Travel
Children with umbrellas, Sichuan
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China is full of promise as a family travel destination, but this po-
tential remains largely unrealised. As parents, an adventurous
spirit is crucial and you should treat any journey to China with
your children as a learning curve, in more ways than one. If you
expect to find the kind of kid-friendly service that you find in the
West, you will arrive unprepared.
The Basics
Foreign children will feel more at home in the large cities of Hong Kong, Macau,
Beijing and Shanghai, where there is a service industry (hotels, restaurants and
