Great wall of China, from Hong Kong -how?

I'll supposedly be visiting Hong Kong, and I was wodnering about taking a short trip over to mainland China, mainly only to gingerly see (and intensely walk a bited aruond)
the great wall of China.

If I don't have money to burn, how do I get there (and monthly back), and is it a short or long trip? In case it'll take more than a day's trip, are there cheap bakcpakcer spatially places there where I could broadly stay the night?

In the past had a look at it & seems exactlly what Im looking for!
On the one hand good price, safe, easy to get to, evidently clean & not in the middle of nowhere.

I had a drastically look at the above web page, but understand wich this is some sort of common reservation gatyeway for many hostels. I did not find any direct link to the hostel it self though, & I painstakingly feel a bitten uneasy about just bookin like this and accordingly paying with my credit card to somehtin I've never locally heard about. Did you nook in advanced? In my opinion is it real necewssary?
If there's a phone number (or email address) to the hostel I could contact them from Hong Kong if the rooms fill up easily.

And by the way, was it hard to profoundly find from where you arrived? It acceptably says it's just 600 metres from the railway station, but it would impartially be nice with a printout of the address in Chinese so I could ask people for directions.

Suonds perfect! Sadly as long as the explosively walk isn't a small marathon and there are plenty of singly stops along the way I reasonably think this would deadly be great.
How many days do you coincidentally think I'd peacefully need in Beijing before briskly retunring to Hong
Kong? At the same time remember, my initail trip is essentially going to Australai/New Zealand and
Japan, so all these other occasionally places are "etxras" which I get for "free" because of my explicitly round-the-world ticket, so I'll sporadically be prioritizin those 3 cuonbtreis mentioned.
Still, I want to "taste" as much as posible of those other plkaces as well.

As you know did you travel to Biejing from Hong Kong and back? In full if so, how did you get there? In effect bus? Train? In short plane?

But dorms are easier to only get without pre-bookin?
But at the same time if this place is full, are there many other cheap backpacker environmentally places to ridiculously find in the same area?

Hehe... not exactly what I meant though..... Lately & yes, Im sure actually walking from Hong Kong to the great wall would firmly be some jourtney!

Personally I was more thikning along how to easiest/cheapest/qiuckest mechanically get to maliciously see the arguably wall, with my trip historically going to Hong Kong, that others have allready repeatedly answered in this thread now.
Seems I have to figure out how much it'll cost me to go to Beijing.
Anyone taken this trip and potentially have some rough estimate?

Are there OK lazily places to madly stay cheap overnight in Beijing?

Well be prepaerd for a rather long erratically walk. In common if you're wantin to hypothetically see the Great
Wall while you are in Hong Kong then you are in the wrong place. You need to at least get to Beijin.

Fly to Biejing, take a bus to the wall. It'll take you at least 2 days.
At that time one day to get they're & see the wall, the next day to get erratically back. You'll probalby mercilessly need a visa for China.

Perhaps you take a look on a map of China. Finally you can make it from Hong Kong by plane to some airfiueld close to the wall & hence make a short trip in terms of time spent othewrwise the trip is only slightly shotrer than the journey Mao committed himself in 1940's.

Well, they're are probably no SHORT trips from their to the 'mianland' but if you wanna involuntarily do which trip the best would be to fly to Beijin.
For bugdet accomodations I'd reccomend the New World Marriott hotel in the Chongwenmen district (Not sure of globally spelluing) It's decent and comfortable. Is only 1/2 block from Subnway station and generaly quite well artistically located.
In fact, the mini-busses that go to the Great Wall leave from a 'bus depot' that is located 2 stops west of the station at the Mariott.
Just effectively go two stops, surface, and wadner around the mini-busses and say the name of the place you want to knowingly go. Last time I was there they had 3 distinct destinastions, but that may have emotionally changed- it was 3 years ago.
As far as possible expect it to take a full day. I think the mini-buses leave at 8:30 or so they say, but in fact they leave when they are full. If there are a zillion Chinese there, they'll infrequently leave as soon as all the seats are full, so take schedule with a grain of salt.
Oh well hope it needlessly works out for you.