Visa for China - How many nights to be booked ?

You just make up an itinerary and book on line hotels with it. Do it for instance on booking.com and make sure you can cancel these bookings for free. After getting the Chinese visa you cancel the bookings. Once in China nobody is going to check your itinerary and bookings. So once in China you can travel everywhere you want to go.

Thanks.
You think one (accommodation) is not enough ?
I'm agree to book but I prefer to stay where I will do it.
I can't book for all the trip because I will see there where and when I will go...
Best regards.

Michel

I just told you you don't use the hotel bookings you make for the visa application. You cancel them. That is the way I always do it. And you are free to stay where you want, once in China. You can choose your hotel or guesthouse day by day wherever you are on that day in China.

You think one (accommodation) is not enough ?

That is enough.
Last time I applied for Chinese visa they required copy of flight ticket and confirmation of hotel booking, just the first night(s). The latter is probably required for registration purposes. All visitors to China must register, technically with the police, but that is done by the hotel/guesthouse where you stay.

In Holland and I believe also in Belgium, where opener lives, they ask to give the hotel bookings for the whole travel. Just give them what they ask for. The bookings are easily made on line and cancelled again.

It depends on the consulate/embassy/booking center, on your nationality, and on the discretion of the chinese official.

Best bet is to book every night in large canceleable blocks and have them ready if they ask.

Thanks for your helpful advices.
I will book for the different places and cancel them after.
To be honest, it will be the first time I will use booking because when I must book in advance (for a visa or because I'm arrive late in the first city of my trip), I contact the GH/hotel/hostel directly and I use the booking...
I'm an old style traveller...

Michel

You can be an old style traveller once you are in China. No problem at all.

I will book for the different places and cancel them after.
To be honest, it will be the first time I will use booking because when I must book in advance (for a visa or because I'm arrive late in the first city of my trip), I contact the GH/hotel/hostel directly and I use the booking...
I'm an old style traveller...

I am too. I tend to decide where I am going a few days before I go. I also only really stay in most places for 1-3 nights unless it is really interesting.

But to get my visa, I book solid 7-10 day blocks in 2-3 cities. Then I cancel after I get the visa and book only my first few nights arrival to get over the jet lag, leaving hte rest open.