1. Search by Google with the phrase: Beijing tour or Beijing tours, you can see many tour operators on line. Compared with the price, and their tour Itineraries: you can send an e-mail to them by choosing 3-5 tour operators, request them to give you some advice about your travel.

2. If you want to choose your hotels by yourself, maybe you can search the hotels on ctrip or elong. Perhaps it will be much cheaper than other foreign hotels allocations, such as booking, Expedia

3. Use TripAdvisor when you look for a hotel, also ask the tour operator, how much the room rate is, maybe you can find a good price from them. If you want to know more about the hotel you are interested, you can seek for the hotel official website, and then send an e-mail to the hotel, and ask a good price for you.

4. If you need an airport transfer with English-speaking guide, you'd better choose a tour operator, they can arrange all for you.

5. Compared with a bus tour, a private tour will be much higher, but you can arrange the trip by yourself. If you are a small group, you can ask for a discount price for a private tour, sometimes it will good value for money.

6. If you have some friends who had a travel in China, you can get some advice from them. Also if you have friend coming from China, it will be a great idea for your trip.

7. Read some books about china culture. Also you can find the useful information on internet. It will help you choose the tours you desire.

8. Choose an available time. You see there are some important festivals, like National Day, Labor Day, you should not choose these periods to travel in China. Many Chinese will choose these holiday to go on their tours, so the attractions crowed so many people to make your tours jammed, you can not have a good time when you do so. Further more, the price for air tickets, hotels, train tickets will be much higher than usual.

9. For the payment, you'd better choose to pay upon your arrival.

10. About the tours, do not choose the lowest price and the highest price, a middle price maybe good for you.