I moved several hives 6 feet each last week and no bees went back to
the old location.  I did it the way my father-in-law said to do it 20
years ago when I married his daughter and he gave me a couple dozen
hives as a wedding present.

"Only move the hive in the direction of the hive's opening, and no
more than half a dozen feet at a move.  Make the move in the evening
when everyone's home for the night. And then put a board  or a hive
top over the opening.  That's to make the bees stop and look around
when they go to work in the morning.  You would probably get lost
too, coming home, if someone had picked up your house in the middle
of the night and moved it over to the next block. You would rush out
the front door, late to work, not bothering to see if your house had
changed locations. And then when you came home from work, you would
go back to the old location and your house wouldn't be. Same with the
bees."

He also said to put an empty box at the old location to gather the
bees who went to work without paying attention to the board.

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