Accommodations & Tours

In Xiamen, the program will be based in an extremely comfortable hotel, complete with internet connections for each room, adjacent to the campus of Xiamen University across the highway from a beach. There will be several local tours, of the university area, the overall city, and sites of interest in the region. There will also be visits to local legal institutions.

The first session will begin in Hong Kong, where we will stay in a quality hotel and have an introductory class examining Chinese law and legal education from a Hong Kong perspective.

Students who wish to come early in order to see more of Hong Kong can make arrangements with our travel agent; rooms cost about $100 per night, $50 double-occupancy. The program will pay for shared double occupancy rooms from May 21 to 24. Students must pay for their travel from the U.S. to Hong Kong and on to Xiamen, then back to the U.S. Exiting via Beijing may be economical because airlines treat China’s east-coast cities as a single destination in assigning round-trip airfares. The cost of round-trip air has been about $1,100. A four-day tour of Beijing will occur June 14 to 18. Students attending only session one will be able to tour Beijing June 4 - 8 but they may be part of a larger tour group. Tours will include visits to the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, and major attractions in Beijing, including an evening of theater. The program will pay for double-occupancy hotel and some meals.

The weekend of May 23-25 will feature free tours of Xiamen. The weekends of May 30 - June 1, June 6-8 and June 20-22 will feature free regional tours and optional tours of Xian – China’s first capital and the site of the famous terra cotta army and Shanghai at an extra cost of about $450 per tour.

Double-occupancy rooms in Xiamen are at program expense as well as three meals a day at the residence, which is a modern three-star hotel.

Spending at least one weekend in Xiamen is highly recommended. The city itself has numerous places of interest, including an important Buddhist temple and Gulangyu, also called piano island, a five minute ferry ride from downtown. This small island was the base for European traders during the Treaty-Port era, and it has been preserved and developed to delight visitors. It has shaded cobblestone streets winding between old Western-style villas, colorful shops, a romantic path climbing to a tower with a breathtaking view of the harbor, beaches, a piano museum, a puppet theater, an aquarium, an aviary, and an aerial tram.