Your choice which can be planned with your guide on the go: Standard Chinese, Western fast food (McDonald's, KFC or Subway), Chinese dumplings, vegetarian fare, Sichuan spicy or Muslim Chinese. Depending on your location in Beijing, not all these choices may be available.

An assortment of meat and vegetable dishes. Includes unlimited standard drinks.

Meat dishes can also be available if there is a mixture of vegetarians and carnivores.

Cuisine from Sichuan contains a bit of fresh chili. Popular around Beijing, you can enjoy a mix of spicy and not spicy dishes.

Like ravioli, assorted fillings, dip in dark vinegar or soy. You can add fresh ground chilli to your sauce which is very nice.

Sliced duck carved at your table. Crispy skin and tender meat. Roll it in a little tortilla (called a "bing") with cucumber, onion and plum sauce. Eat your mini-tortilla and have a few more! Also enjoy some side dishes.

Raw meats, fresh vegetables, tofu and noodles are cooked by you in pot of boiling soup broth at your table. Each guest has their own pot. Drop raw ingedients in the boiling soup and fish them out with your chopsticks when cooked. Chat and repeat. A Beijing winter specialty. Not spicy unless you add chilis yourself.

Xinjiang food includes lamb kabobs and is normally served by the Uiger minorities.

Enjoy a home cooked meal in a family home in the hutongs, best before or after a Hutong Tour.

90 minute foot massage at Oriental Taipan Spa includes fresh fruit juices, hot drinks, curry beef or veg on rice or noodles, sandwich, pork buns and fruit.

Only offered after visiting the Ming Tombs in the morning. Your choice of Gourmet Local Chinese or Peking Duck. McDonald's or KFC are available at the same price.

Only offered after visiting Mutianyu Great Wall in the morning, you may have a Chinese style lunch including fresh trout (pick your own from the pond). You can also use a pole to catch fish while you wait for lunch. Also includes an assortment of other Chinese dishes both veg and meat.

Visit the Beijing Zoo and see the panda exhibit which is on through the fall of 2008.

See the zoo and Sichuan Panda exhibit (through fall 2008) as well as visiting the modern new Beijing Aquarium. (we must buy zoo tickets to go to the aquarium)

Play area with rides and jumpy castle in warmer months for kids 8 or under. Also fishing and remote control boats in summer. Rides/activities not included (but reasonably cheap). The park is also great for Chinese style hacky-sack, strolling, people watching and exercise free machines.

About 100 stalls with stuffed animals, wood toys, legos, puzzles, scooters, rollerblades, remote control cars & aircraft and much more. Our guide will advise you how to bargain.

A huge warehouse filled with historic trains you can climb on and in.

In the summer, go to the Tuanjiehu Park's outdoor complex with artificial beach, waves, slides and river. Other kid fun in the surrounding park. A local place, you won't see many other foreigners here.

Huge place of indoor fun for kids six or younger, indoor play maze, ball pool, toddler area. Mainly Chinese kids. Great in winter or rainy weather.

Indoors in summer or on frozen lakes in winter. Includes admission and skate rental. In the winter you may also try skating with sleds and sticks on the ice.

The Beijing Natural History Museum