Qinhuangdao airport to the city: 40-yuan bus or a metered taxi
Two ways out of Qinhuangdao Beidaihe Airport (BPE): a 40-yuan shuttle bus or a metered taxi. The terminal sits in Changli County, 47 km from the main urban area of Qinhuangdao and 20 km from Beidaihe, so there is no city bus or metro to fall back on.
The Longteng shuttle bus
The airport line is run by Longteng and is tied to flights rather than to a timetable. A bus waits outside the terminal when a flight lands and leaves once it has loaded, so there is no departure time to plan around — and if yours is the last flight of the day, there is no later bus.
Coming from the airport it stops at Haining Road 201 in Beidaihe, then Yingzhuang Lijia, Yanshan University and Zaishuiyifang, and finishes at the Airport Hotel on Yingbin Road 169, 300 m south of Qinhuangdao Railway Station. Allow about 100 minutes to the final stop.
Fares are 40 yuan to the city stops and 20 yuan to Haining Road in Beidaihe. Airport inquiries: 0335-7520000. Bus line inquiries: 0335-6966996.
Taxi
Cabs at the airport use the city tariff: 5 yuan for the first 2 km, 1.6 yuan per km up to 5 km and 2.4 yuan per km after that. From 22:00 to 05:00 the rates go to 5.4 yuan, 1.8 and 2.7, and there is a 1-yuan fuel surcharge on every trip. Travellers report a metered run into the city at around 130 yuan; the drive itself takes about 1 hour 10 minutes from the city side.
Plan the return leg rather than arriving at the kerb and hoping. The terminal is small and quiet between flights, so have DiDi installed before you land and treat the shuttle as the default if your flight is late in the evening.
Which to take
The shuttle for price and certainty — it exists because a plane landed, and 40 yuan is a third of a taxi. A taxi for the last flight of the day, for Beidaihe on a busy summer weekend, or when your hotel is nowhere near the Airport Hotel or the Yanshan University stop.
One thing worth checking before you book at all: Qinhuangdao is on the Beijing–Harbin high-speed line, which puts you in the city without a 47 km road transfer at either end. Book trains and flights on Trip.com
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Last checked: 2026-11-11
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