Do you need to book Chongli ski resorts & 2022 Olympic snow venues in advance?
No — Chongli ski resorts & 2022 Olympic snow venues in Zhangjiakou does not need an advance reservation. Ticketing: Ski passes and rentals are bought per-resort, on the day at the ticket hall or in advance through each resort's own app/mini-program; no city-wide reservation system. Book ahead for weekends, Spring Festival and the New Year peak when the popular resorts and rental gear sell out. You can still buy ahead on the official channel below if you want a fixed time, but turning up works. That makes it one of the sights you can leave to the day, which is worth knowing when the rest of a China itinerary has to be booked a week out.
Verified 2026-06-13 · rules change; confirm on the official channel before you travel
The booking rule, in detail
- Reservation
- Not required — you can turn up
- Ticketing
- Ski passes and rentals are bought per-resort, on the day at the ticket hall or in advance through each resort's own app/mini-program; no city-wide reservation system. Book ahead for weekends, Spring Festival and the New Year peak when the popular resorts and rental gear sell out
- Foreign passport
- A foreign passport works as the real-name ID.
- Official channel
- https://www.wlski.com/
How a foreign visitor actually books it
Each resort sells its own lift pass; there is no single combined ticket. You can buy at the resort ticket window on arrival with your passport as ID, or in advance via each resort's WeChat/Alipay mini-program (Chinese-first). The big resorts here ran an international Olympics and are the most foreigner-ready part of the city — Wanlong advertises English/Japanese/Korean instruction and staff. The simplest path for a non-Chinese-reader is to buy the lift pass and rental at the resort counter on the day, or have your hotel reserve through the resort app.
What else to know
The official booking page points to Wanlong's official site (wlski.com), the one verifiable clean official domain in the cluster; Genting/Secret Garden's official site is secretgardenresorts.com (云顶滑雴公园, a 2022 Olympic venue) but it is a JavaScript-only app with booking funnelled through its mini-program, and Thaiwoo (太舞) and Fulong (富龙) likewise sell mainly through their own apps and OTAs rather than a clean ticketing webpage — so book the others through their apps, an OTA, or at the resort counter. This is the heart of the trip: Chongli is China's premier ski-resort cluster, the Genting Snow Park hosted the Beijing 2022 freestyle and snowboard events, and Wanlong (China's earliest big resort, ~22 trails, 560 m vertical) claims the longest season near Beijing, roughly November to April. Prices are left null on purpose — lift-pass, rental and lesson rates vary by resort, day and season and are too volatile to quote reliably; check each resort's app for the live day rate. Note the hard seasonality: the slopes only run in winter (about Nov–Mar/Apr); come in summer and the lifts are closed.
What to still watch for
No reservation does not mean no friction. Carry your passport — it is the ID checked wherever one is checked, and a photo of it is not accepted. Where there is a paid gate, expect the counter to want a domestic payment app rather than a card, which is worth setting up before you land. And anyone approaching you outside with tickets is selling something you do not need here — the sights that genuinely sell out are the ones with a reservation rule, listed in Reservation Radar.
Other Zhangjiakou sights and their booking rules
- Dajingmen Great Wall gate walk in
- Grassland Sky Road & Bashang Grassland walk in
Full city context, hotels that register foreigners, and what to eat: Zhangjiakou guide. Release times across every city we track are in Reservation Radar.