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 Joined: 2005-10-20 Points: 1 | Can anyone give an idea of what the trains cost. I'm looking to start from Beijing then goto Xi'an then goto Shanghai, then return to Beijing. I didn't see any prices listed in the train schedule. In Europe, its cheaper to fly than to take the train because of competition. Thanks in advance. |
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Points: 8
I believe it's cheaper to take the train in China from the research I've done for my upcoming trip. Although air travel won't be much more expensive if you can get a good deal.
For fares and times for the chinese trains try:
www.seat61.com/China.htm
If you want to get a sense of prices for airfare you can check:
www.elong.net
Points: 748
Very sound advice, chinchineropee
Points: 16
I'm going to offer the same advice that I always offer, and that's to do BJ-SH-XA-BJ instead of BJ-XA-SH-BJ, for the reason that it's tough to get decent train tickets from XA to SH considering the fact that it's a provincial capital. Out of all the various trains (I think there're
doing this route, you can buy a sleeper ticket for only 1 of those.
BJ-XA Z train soft sleeper: 417/400 RMB (lower/upper)
BJ-SH Z train soft sleeper: 499/478 RMB (lower/upper)
SH-XA T train hard sleeper: 333/323/312 RMB (lower/middle/upper)
Let me know if you need more info/have any other questions.
Points: 748
Thanks ellyse
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For anyone not familiar with these
abbreviations, they represent ...
Beijing - Shanghai - Xi'an - Shanghai
Points: 11
I have booked flights to Bejing and from Hong Kong and want to make an internal journy by train.
How much would I expect to pay for the following trip in total? and do the internet companies add massive surcharges?
Thanks for any help you can give
Points: 11
Further to my last comment the prices quoted above are very good. However is it difficult to book these tickets in advance?
Points: 16
caspar, I'd offer to help you get the tickets in advance, but unfortunately I think you'll be coming at a time when I'm not in China.
You're not coming at a busy local travel period, so if you buy your onward ticket when you arrive at each destination, that should be fine. BTW, you said "following trip"... where?