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[Crik]

Please help me if anyone know about this!
I will need to get back to ShangHai Pudong Airport to catch the flight at 9.30am from HangZhou. What is the cheapest and convenience way to do so? (train, bus,or taxi)Is it possible for me to rush for the flight from HangZhou early in the morning? Or it might be better for me to turn back to ShangHai the night before the flight?
Thanks in advance for any useful information provided.

[mikelsin]

Hi
The journey by coach from Hangzhou to Shanghai takes around 2.5 to 3 hours or so and if your flight is at 9.30am you would have to leave HZ at a ridiculously early time becuase if its an international flight you are catching you would need to be at Shanghai Pudong airport around 7.00 am,bear in mind the airport is ALWAYS busy these days,it can take 45 mins and more sometimes to clear formalities.
This means you would have to leave around 3.30am //4.00am in order to get to the airport in time.
There is a bus thats goes direct bewteen HZ Yellow Dragon Bus Station and SH Pudong airport but i am not sure of the timings,i have used it once and i recall the fare is about 100rmb / 150 rmb something like that.

I am from U.K.but i work in HZ most of the year and have traveled bewteen HZ and SH many times so i know the time it takes to get between the two. I always travel the day before to Shanghai and take a cab to the airport,it will cost around 150 rmb ( around $18 ) and takes around 45 mins to 1 hour at the time you would have to leave your hotel depending from where in Shanghai you stay. The magalev train is an option but the station is not in downtown SH so you probably have to take a cab to get there anyway.

In my way of thinking a rushed journey is a stressed journey !I would stay in Shanghai.

Hope this helps.