China Travel Tips

Wudaokou area:
-Pyros Pizza: This is a great hang out place with mostly international students. A lot of people from the States or Europe go there. The pizza is really good, 85 to 100 RMB about. Towers of beer that serve about 8 cups of beer costs 50 RMB. They have beer pong every Thursday night and play a whole variety of good music. On St. Patty’s day they serve green beer and green jello shots. The location is right past Lush after you turn right prior to arriving to the Wudaokou subway station. It’s next to Propaganda/Sensation.
-Lush: This place is open 24 hours and has free wireless. The burgers are great and it’s a place with a mixture of international students and locals. During the weekends, they play a lot of music and the middle of the place becomes a dance floor. It’s on the second floor above a Chinese bookstore. If you walk there from Wenjin Hotel, you cross the street and you walk towards the Wudaokou subway station and right before you get to the subway station, it’s right at the corner and it has a blue banner with black letters that says “Lush.” Burgers are 35-45 RMB and sodas are 10 RMB. Beer is around 15-25 RMB.
-Propaganda/Sensation: These are both bars/clubs. On Wednesday they have a cover of 50 RMB for open bar with a large variety of drinks. The dance floor is in the basement and it’s pretty big. The place is pretty dingy looking and dark but a lot of people go there. Around midnight the place gets pretty packed until 3-4 AM. Proganda usually has more people than Sensation since Sensation just opened not too long ago. It seems that Sensation has more of an international population and Propaganda has more Chinese people there. The location is right past Lush after you turn right from the Wudaokou subway station.
-Helen’s Cafe: This is a nice backpacker’s kinda bar. Tsingtao is 15 RMB and most other drinks are 20-25 RMB. Good ambiance and music. It’s about 400 meters or past Propaganda/Sensation.

San Li Tun Area
Vics/Mix: Big club that’s really nice. Drinks are 40 RMB generally. On Thursday night they have a 100 RMB cover for open bar. Big dance floor and the club is really loud and smoky. The location is by the Workers Stadium and across from Mix. Mix has more Asians while Vics has more of an international population. You can get a table for 800 RMB and you get a few bottles of Grey Goose and bottle service.