China Travel Forum

[Brian]

Will arrive Shanghai April Has booked Chuangye Hotel . How do I get to Chuangye Hotel? Can u provide bus no, distance and amount to pay? And by taxi how much too?
Shanghai to Bejing. Shd I fly or take train? Can you provide me info for both on cost/departure/ arrival time.
On arrival, how do I get to Yuexiu Hotel . Plse provide both bus and taxi fare info.
From Beijing to Xian to see the terracotta soldiers. Can I have the air and train quotes and the departure and arrival time.
Arrival at Xian, how do I get to Dynasty Hotel and the bus and taxi fare.
Xian back to Shanghai, need air quote/ dept and arrival time.
In total, how much must I pay airport tax if I chose to fly for all.

[Richard Kong]

Shanghai Pudong Airport has a few marshrutes of shuttle buses - the exact stops and rates you can find
the prices are really affordable and buses are really comfort. The taxi from the airport will cost you about 300 Y and that really overpriced...You can take the bus and even if the doesn't stop next to your hotel, it's better for you to take the regular taxi within the city (starting 10 Y and doesn't go up more than 30 if you stay incide the city center)...All the way fromm the airport shold take 1-1.5 hours.
Flying or train it's another good question and it depends practically on the duration of your trip and your private prefernces.
You can find a really cheap flight from Shanghai to Beijing for about 70-80 $ or take the train for about 300-400 Y per hard sleeper or 550-800 per soft sleeper (as you can see it's cheaper to get a flight than soft sleeper) ant it will take you between 13-27 hours - the fastest trains are the most expensive. As for my recomendations- if you have enought time for this kind of advanture - take a hard sleeper for you all - it's not "hard" at all and it gives you unique experience in chinese mentallity.
Xian is a small city, so you can freely take a taxi to everywhere inside the city - the buses are 1-2 Y and for the theracota wariors you have special minibuses - try to catch and not to pay for a special taxi or hotel tour.

Any flights you take - the airport tax inside the province (you have none of these flights in your schledue) or for very small aircraft is 10 Y,
for usual flights inside mainland it's 50 Y and for international flights it's 90 Y (all taxes are per person)
,Xi'an to Shanghai
MU291 0800-0950 RMBY950 (Arrive in Pudong Airport)
MU2505 0930-1120 RMBY1260(After this it is the same price and al fly to Hongqiao Airport)
FM204 1130-1320
Mu2503 1320-1505
HU7845 1420-1610
MU2501 1600-1650
FM202 1700-1855
MU2523 2050-2240