Bo'ao
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Understand
Boao, the seat of the Boao Forum for Asia, has its share of luxury hotels. Tourist facilities are well developed, with heavy overseas Chinese investment.
Get in
Bo'ao is somewhat over an hour from Haikou and about two hours from Sanya.
Bo'ao airport (BAR) opened in 2016 with regular flights to Guangzhou, Chongqing, Guiyang, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Kunming.
Bo'ao airport (BAR) opened in 2016 with regular flights to Guangzhou, Chongqing, Guiyang, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Kunming.
Get around
Taxi from Qionghai coach station ¥30-40 (negotiate!). Bus number 2 ¥3.
Bike rentals range around ¥30 per hour or hop a motorcycle taxi for around ¥5 or less per trip to nearly anywhere around Bo'ao.
Bike rentals range around ¥30 per hour or hop a motorcycle taxi for around ¥5 or less per trip to nearly anywhere around Bo'ao.
See
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Bo'ao Forum
phone: +86 898-62691509This is a meeting place for Asian heads of state, which is a popular tourist attraction for Chinese tour groups. Of little interest to the average foreign tourist. -
Yudai Beach
address: Located on a thin peninsula at the mouth of the Wanquan, Longgun and Jiuqu rivers -
China (Hainan) National Museum of the South China Sea
phone: +86 898 62605666address: Museum Road, Tanmen Town (潭门镇博物馆路)
Do
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phone: +86 898 62779659It is surrounded by mountains, river and ocean. The course is built totally upon the original landscape. The natural plant and surroundings have been kept unchanged.
Buy
There is a duty-free store at the Bo'ao Forum site.
Eat
Boao has everything from five star dining, ocean front seafood dining to local eateries featuring Chinese cuisine from nearly every province. The main street of Boao is lined with outdoor restaurants and fruit sellers serving until the wee hours of the night.
Boao is surrounded by fields of pineapples. Sample a peeled pineaple on a stick for only ¥1. A tropical island, visitors to Hainan can eat fresh fruit all year round.
Boao is surrounded by fields of pineapples. Sample a peeled pineaple on a stick for only ¥1. A tropical island, visitors to Hainan can eat fresh fruit all year round.
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Aozhuang
phone: +86 898 62777123One of Boao's best dining experiences is found not in a high-class restaurant but at a local seafood restaurant right on the beach near the town of Boao. The restaurant is an open air restaurant looking east towards the South China Sea. While the food is delicious, with superb local seafood and fresh vegetables, the biggest attraction is the location. To relax on a balmy evening over a cold beer, looking out over the beach and listening to the sound of the surf at evening fall, until all you can see is the lights of the fishing boats out at sea, it does not get much better than this.
Sleep
Boao Yudaiwan HotelNew, big and comfortable. Huge swimming pool, two restaurants.
Boao Sofitel HotelThe resort features 437 spacious rooms, five restaurants, five bars, a business centre and indoor/outdoor spas. Recreation facilities include a swimming pool, outdoor natural hot springs, a fitness centre, tennis courts and a new world class PGA championship golf course designed by Graham Marsh. The BFA Convention Center provides extensive state-of-the-art conference facilities for up to 2,000 delegates.