Climate: Qingdao is located in the north temperate monsoon region and has a temperate monsoon climate. Due to the direct regulation of the marine environment, the city is influenced by the southeast monsoon winds from the ocean and the sea currents and water masses, so it is also characterized by a significant maritime climate. The air is humid, the temperature is moderate, and the four seasons are distinct. The temperature rises slowly in spring, one month later than inland; summer is hot and humid with lots of rain, but no scorching heat; fall has high skies and little precipitation; and winter is windy and cold and lasts for a long time.
Best time to visit: fall.
Qingdao Folk Festivals:
Qingdao Cherry Blossom Festival Late April - Early May
It has a history of more than 80 years and is held in Zhongshan Park.
Qingdao Ocean Festival of China Mid and Late July
Qingdao, with the goal of building a modern international ocean city, founded the Qingdao Ocean Festival of China in 1999, with the main venue in Zhongshan Park.
Qingdao International Beer Festival Late August - Early September
The biggest beer festival in Asia, not quite on a par with Oktoberfest in Munich, but Qingdao's people have made Tsingtao Beer famous both at home and abroad, and there are a lot of performances during the festival! If you're lucky, you'll meet foreign troupes and, of course, famous artists from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Don't miss it!
The Internet Festival, commonly known as the Sea Festival. It is held on March 18 every year. The Zhougezhuang festival in Tianheng Town, Jimo City, is the largest and best-preserved festival in the northern part of China. "The tone of the festival is red, yellow and green, and the atmosphere is warm and rich in fishermen's flavor. The offerings and ritual procedures are very elaborate, and the whole event lasts for three days before and after the festival.
Qingdao special reminder:
Qingdao's airport bus is a medium-sized bus, which can't sit a few people at a time, so if you don't want to take a taxi, you need to get on the bus early to get a place. If you want to take a taxi, you must take a silver-white roof of Qingdao city cab, the kind of yellow roof of Chengyang District, Laoshan District, or other county-level city cabs can not enter the city of Qingdao. Remember to bring sunscreen and sunglasses to Qingdao. You can't go to Qingdao without eating seafood, so be sure to bring anti-diarrhea medication and medication for allergies in case you get sick from eating seafood.
Qingdao Cuisine:
Qingdao is rich in valuable sea cucumbers, scallops, abalone, sea snails, prawns, gaji fish, etc., which determines the characteristics of Qingdao's cooking, which is based on seafood ingredients. Traditional Qingdao banquets are characterized by certain specifications, such as "four-sixteen" and "four-twenty-eight". The order of serving requires that first cold and then hot, first salty and then sweet, every seat must be fish, no sea cucumber is not a big seat. Eat seafood depends on the season, spring and summer is the best season, absolutely let you eat no longer want to eat meat. Of course, be careful, there are a lot of tourists first arrived in Qingdao due to the temptation of seafood can not stand, eat too much, the result ...... (imagine).
Qingdao has the northern characteristics of the seafood feast, but also a variety of Shandong characteristics of the flavorful snacks. Noodles are all over the place and dumplings are boiling hot. Northern cuisine is thick in flavor and requires good digestion. Qingdao celebrity chefs gathered, the concentration of rare sea food, but also the reputation of Qingdao beer and Laoshan mineral spring at home and abroad to accompany the meal, the taste is really wonderful!
In the snack street, you can enjoy the local flavor of Qingdao snacks, here are rare fun in the big restaurant. The "Chai Chai Yuan", located on Jiangning Road between Zhongshan Road and Hebei Road, is a famous snack street in Qingdao. Besides, there are also Dalmaidao Seafood Street, Yunxiao Road Zhongyuan Food Street, Huiquan Snack Street, Shuangxing Snack Street, Taishan Road Barbecue Street, Chang'an Food Street and so on, which are a collection of flavors from all over the world, and are a gourmet's paradise.
SpecialtiesQingdao ten special flavors
Yingzhou Spanish mackerel snacks:
Qingdao Hotel traditional snacks, has more than 50 years of history.
Steamed red island oysters:
Qingdao Xiaohonglou Catering Center special brand, with ginger and vinegar is especially good.
Meigue Cold Noodles:
Seafood delicacies of Qingdao Xinya Gourmet City.
Gu Xiangcun Prawn Noodle:
Exclusive to Qingdao Gu Xiangcun Noodle House.
Yingzhou Clam Set Meal:
Seafood brand of Qingdao restaurant.
Medal Grilled Squid:
Exclusive to Medal Grill.
Big Boat Light Fish Set Meal:
Exclusive to Wonton King Fast Food Restaurant, only in Qingdao.
Casserole whole fish:
Wanhechun restaurant special brand.
Bao Island Seafood Emerald Noodle:
Exclusive to Bao Island Restaurant.
Great Wall Seafood Stove Buns:
Exclusively operated by Great Wall Restaurant, it has become a public specialty.
Shopping in Qingdao:
If you are going to shop in Qingdao, you may want to take a walk on Zhongshan Road. Zhongshan Road has a beautiful night view, and Qingdao One Hundred, Parkson and so on are still worth a visit. There are two hypermarkets on Hong Kong Road in the Eastern New District, namely "Jiasheke" at the mouth of Fuzhou South Road and "Carrefour" at the mouth of Nanjing Road. Carrefour opposite the Sunshine Department Store, Qingdao's high-level shopping center, the Sunshine Department Store has a Starbucks Coffee and H?agen-Dazs, you can also see the Porsche cars. In addition, the west gate of the Crowne Plaza Hotel next to Jiasheke has opened a new shopping mall with LV, PRADA, GUCCI and other brands.
Qingdao in the country belongs to the lower prices of the city, products in addition to the seashore characteristics of the goods, and Shandong characteristics of the encapsulated food. Tourist commodities should be careful when shopping, more extreme is indiscriminate.
Shandong region shopping bargaining is more difficult, for one thing, it was not very expensive, and secondly, Shandong people do not want to bother with words. Seafood in the local meal after try not to carry, because of the difficulty of preservation.
Qingdao Taidong Commercial Walking Street is the center street of Shibei District's characteristic street, with its comfortable shopping environment, strong modern atmosphere and popularity, it has become Qingdao's most distinctive commercial walking street, which is imaginatively called Qingdao's "Wangfujing", and was officially named as "Qingdao Taidong Commercial Walking Street" by Qingdao Municipal Government in October 13th 2006, which was named as "Qingdao Taidong Commercial Walking Street" by Qingdao Municipal Government in October 15th. On October 13, 2006, it was officially named "Qingdao Taidong Pedestrian Street" by Qingdao Municipal Government. Taidong Pedestrian Street has many small boutiques and snacks, and is a good place for shopping and leisure.
Specialties: shellfish carvings, seafood, Jimo old wine, clams from Jiaozhou Bay, Laoshan mineral water, Laoshan stone, Laoshan Yunfeng tea, Tsingtao beer, weaving
Qingdao Transportation:
Air
Qingdao Liuting International Airport is 32 kilometers away from the city center, and the air routes are well-connected, which can be used for traveling to and from more than 30 cities in the country, and there are several air routes to Japan, such as Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, South Korea, Seoul and Hong Kong, Macau and so on, Singapore, Hong Kong, Macau and other international and regional passenger routes have been opened. Civil aviation ticket office in Zhongshan Road, No. 29 (Hunan intersection, the present stack bridge).
Railway
Qingdao Railway Station was located at No.2 Tai'an Road near Trestle Bridge.
Qingdao has 24 pairs of trains **** daily to and from Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Jinan, Taishan, Heze, Yantai, Weihai, Wuchang, Nanchang, Xuzhou, Zhengzhou, Xi'an, Lanzhou, Xining, Chengdu, Taiyuan, Dandong and Tonghua. In addition to the direction of Zibo, Yantai, Weihai, the rest of the times are stopping in Jinan.
Reminder: If you come to Qingdao by train, don't take a taxi in the parking lot of the train station after getting off the train, the cabs in the station are usually bargaining (not playing the table), and refused to run a short trip. If you are looking for a cheaper ride, you can take a taxi on the street outside the train station square.
Highway
Qingdao's highway transportation is very developed, so far, Qingdao has built seven highways, including Jinan-Qingdao, Jiaozhou Bay, Xiliu, Shuangliu, Weilai, Qilai, Qingyin and so on.
Qingdao Railway Station Square, there are Iveco buses to Weihai, Yantai, Penglai, water buses, to Yantai as long as more than 3 hours, the ticket price of more than 30 yuan, to Weihai, Penglai, also as long as 4 hours, the ticket price of more than 40 yuan, the road is in excellent condition, take the highway. To go to Jinan also first take the 5 tram to the coach station, where there is the Jinan-Qingdao high-speed bus, to Jinan only 4.5 hours, the ticket price of 79 yuan.
Qingdao Bus Station
Address: Wenzhou Road No. 2 (under Hangzhou Road overpass)
Qingdao West Bus Station
Address: Guantao Road No. 46 (at Guangdong intersection)
Qingdao East Bus Station
Address: Harbin Road
Qingdao Bus Terminal sends most of the long-distance buses to all parts of the province and abroad in the morning. The buses depart in the morning, and the buses to the city's county-level cities depart in running water.
Water Transportation
Qingdao has two international passenger shipping routes, which run all year round: every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday at 16:00 to Incheon, South Korea; and every Tuesday and Friday at 16:00 to Shimonoseki, Japan.
Qingdao Port Passenger Terminal is located at No.6 Xinjiang Road.
Bus
Because of the rolling terrain, bicycles are almost unheard of in Qingdao, and motorcycles are rare, making buses the main means of transportation in the city. Qingdao's public transportation is very convenient, with all roads and no one to sell tickets. Brand new buses are clean inside and out. The single fare for buses is 1 yuan, and the single fare for air-conditioned buses is 2 yuan. Bus 26, 201, 202 bus is along the beach, through the Trestle Bridge, Badaguan and many other attractions, the starting point is the ferry or train station.
There is no more convenient and comfortable way to travel to Qingdao than by air-conditioned tourist lines. All three lines are equipped with luxury air-conditioned buses (28-seat Xiamen Jinlong). The whole process is equipped with professional tour guide service.
To go to Laoshan (Taiqing scenic area) can take the 304 road, from the ferry, the train station (Tank Bridge) all the way to Laoshan, the whole process is close to the beach walk. Of course, you can also participate in the Laoshan one-day tour, the hotels have a proxy, most of the tours are only to go to the Taiqing scenic area. If you want to go to Beijushui and Yangkou scenic spots, you can take a special tour bus at Huaneng Square from 7:00-10:30 am every day.
Taxi
Taxis are now mainly Santana and Jetta. The starting fare is 7 yuan for 4 kilometers, 1.2 yuan per kilometer thereafter, and 1.5 yuan per kilometer at night from 22:00 to 05:00 the next day. It's a little more expensive than starting fees in other cities, but the starting mileage is longer.
Reminder: foreign tourists may feel that Qingdao cabs like to go around in circles, in fact, Qingdao's traffic is very distinctive, a lot of roads are one-way, often seen on one side of the road is four lanes on the other side of the road is only a bus lane, which is done to improve speed and ease the pressure on the traffic, so sometimes feel that you can go directly to the place where you have to detour a little bit, if foreign tourists a little bit of understanding, will not cause too many disputes. It will not cause too many disputes.
Ferry
Qingdao old downtown and Huangdao ferry routes between the two sides of Jiaozhou Bay to strengthen the link, if you take the ring Jiaozhou Bay Expressway, the two places are 84 kilometers apart, while the ferry as long as 20 minutes to half an hour, foggy days stop.
Ordinary ferry: first 06:30, last 21:00, every half hour, fare 6 yuan.
High-speed boat: first 07:10, last 18:30, every 20 minutes, fare 8 yuan.
Qingdao - Xuejiadao (Anzi Pier)
High-speed ferry: first at 07:00, last at 18:10, every half hour.
Ferry Company Qingdao Passenger Terminal Information: 82619279
Ferry Company Huangdao Passenger Terminal Information: 86856949
Ferry Company Xuejiadao Passenger Terminal Information: 86705247
Cruise Ships
Laiyang Road Sea Tourism Terminal is located on the north side of the Naval Museum, where there are cruises to and from the Little Qingdao, Lu Xun Park and Taipingjiao, which is a tourist program of great interest to mainland tourists.
Zhongyuan Sea Square Tourist Terminal is located in Xilingxia Road, where there is not only a panoramic tour route to Maidao for sightseeing of Qingdao downtown waterfront, but also a tour route to two small islands in the Yellow Sea (Zhuchao Island and Dagong Island).
Qingdao Accommodation:
Qingdao's high-grade hotels are mostly in the city's southern district of Qingdao, near the sea, the tide of the sea, listening to the sea waves at night, the summer daytime sea water bathing, unique, some hotels are also set up with seawater swimming pools, you can enjoy the blue sea, blue skies, the sun, the beach, the gift, which can be said to be a happy one. In the seaside and islands, in recent years, also organized some new resorts, such as Sanlian Tianheng Island Resort, Laoshan Yangkou Oriental Resort, Haier Resort, Double Star Resort and so on.
Qingdao has more than 40 star-rated hotels, the following to recommend a few of them unique hotel. Of course, there are also many popular hotels and guest houses in downtown Qingdao, mainly concentrated in the area of the railway station, where accommodation is much cheaper.
Haitian Hotel (five-star)
Features: Every room is a sea view room.
Address: Block A, No. 48 West Hong Kong Road
Shangri-La Hotel (five-star)
Features: The grand ballroom is the largest meeting place in Shandong province.
Address: No.9, Middle Hong Kong Road
Legacy Hotel (five-star)
Features: The first five-star hotel in Shandong Province, with beautiful scenery, luxurious decoration, and walking distance to the beach.
Address: No.1 Taiwan Road
Huizhen Dynasty Hotel (Five-star)
Features: located next to the First Sea Bathing Beach, within walking distance of the Trestle Bridge, with the only high-rise revolving restaurant in Qingdao.
Address: No.9, Nanhai Road
Oriental Hotel (four stars)
Features: Located by the mountains and the sea, the hotel has a quiet and elegant environment, and has a unique catering service, which is known as "Food in the Orient".
Address: No.4, University Road
Taiwan Bridge Hotel (three stars)
Features: German-style architecture, nostalgic classic, Qingdao's earliest ballroom, movie theater.
Address: No.31 Taiping Road (East of Trestle Bridge)
Ocean Express Hotel (Three Stars)
Features: Located opposite to the largest shopping center in Qingdao - Jieshiker, with the municipal center, Wusi Square, close at hand.
Address: No. 61, Middle Hong Kong Road
Wushengguan Hotel
Features: Ideal place to stay, situated in Badaguan.
Bihaiwan Hotel
Address: No.4 Taipingjiao Road, West Hong Kong Road
Qingdao Police Retreat
Features: Located in Qingdao's university town, with many Internet cafes around, it is the first choice of accommodation for young students traveling on their own.
Address: Xinzhu Intersection, Taipei Road (near Qingdao University)
Qingdao Entertainment:
Qingdao, as a tourist city, not only has beautiful seaside scenery, but also a variety of modern entertainment venues to keep people coming back. Qingdao entertainment places are concentrated in the eastern new downtown area and Shilao National Tourist Resort.
Qingdao's colorful entertainment life is made up of the "Hong Kong Street" along the Fushan Bay, the 12-kilometer seaside sculpture corridor of Chinese civilization, the Ocean Amusement City, the Dolphin Show Pavilion, the International Beer City, the Sea Paradise, and the Golf Course. However, the best entertainment in such a seaside and harbor city is to go out to sea. Go to the nearby islands to enjoy the sea breeze and cook some seafood, life is as pleasant as it can be.
There are many bars in Qingdao, and if you like to go to the bar, you can go to the first floor of the Huiquan Dynasty Hotel, not far from the First Sea Bathing Beach, and experience the "Flaming Nuru", which is a famous local bar.