Basically your waiting room leads to the platform for your train to Xian. There are 13 waiting rooms inside the station.
The waiting room No. Walking through the long corridor and looking for the Waiting Room No. Luckily, your waiting room No. Make sure you are on the right waiting room. The train staffer at the gate Information Desk to your waiting room will double-check your train ticket for the right place. Each waiting room is marble-stone paved with air-conditioning and ventilation system. On the front sides there is food and book stalls as well a cafe.
Check the electronic board to seat on the right row for your train. Basically there are two rows of benches for each high speed train. If you hold the pink-colored ticket, you seat and line up on the pink side; if you have the blue ticket, you line up on the blue side. Purchased from a ticketing agent, a pink train ticket needs be checked manually while with a blue ticket bought directly from a train station, you need to have your ticket checked by swiping it on the machine by the gate.
Of course, nowadays, most passengers would use e-tickets either using their mobile phones or ID cards to swipe and go! No need for physical tickets. You see people are lining up to have their tickets checked and enter the platform for their train. Usually it is quite a walk from the ticket check-in gate down to the platform and the right compartment. Just take it easy carrying or rolling your luggage down to the platform and locate the right car you are in. Many passengers would stop and take some pictures of the train.
The train is sleek, thin and long with its head looking like a plane. The train is one of the design of CRH series. It is designed to travel at km per hour. However, the trains are only allowed to run at km per hour due to the safety factor — keeping a required safe distance between following trains.
Mainly there are two kinds of seats — 5-seat row second class and 4-seat row first class. Some high speed trains have 8 cars and others have 16 cars. There is a snack car on the train where you may have coffee, snacks and fast food. The inside of the train has a futuristic look as well with comfortable seats, wide windows, smartly dressed attendants and food service better than a plane.
It is easy to get on the train as the train is at a high level platform. A 2-hour waiting time plus a 2-hour flight time means you will spend the same amount of time traveling as you would if taking a high-speed train.
The high-speed train stations are located within the city, while airports are often outside the city. It is more convenient to travel around the city from the high-speed train stations. For travelers, it is stressful to have to get to the airport 2 hours in advance. If your airplane is delayed, it will add extra waiting time. It is a hour journey. While you are sleeping, you are transferred to the other city. There are different types of seats on an overnight train: hard seats, hard sleepers, soft sleepers, and advanced soft sleepers only some overnight trains have these.
If you choose to travel on an overnight train, avoid taking a hard seat. It is a terrible experience to share a small space with six people and you will get hardly any sleep. Hard sleepers, which have six beds in a small compartment, and soft sleepers, which have four beds in a private room, are better.
Advanced soft sleepers are definitely the best. Besides, you could take a taxi to Terracotta Warriors for about 1 hour, to Shaanxi History Museum for about 1 hour, etc. This mountain offers not only the rich Taoist culture with many antique temples, but also spectacular natural wonders including sunrise, and of course the well-known dangerous plank rail and ways, etc.
Taking a hike there is recommended for the brave and energetic you. Transferring by local taxi, it needs only about 15 minutes to drive about 7km to arrive at the amazing tourist area. Transportation: Luoyang Longmen Station is very near from the downtown area and the main attractions in this city. From there, you can take a taxi to Longmen Grottoes for only nearly 20 minutes, to White Horse Temple for about minutes, to Luoyang Museum for nearly 20 minutes, to Luoyang Old Town for nearly 40 minutes, etc.
Zhengzhou is the capital city of Henan Province in China. Besides, the Yellow River Scenic Area is also good to enjoy the power and history of this great mother river in China. Furthermore, if you would like to visit some attractions in Zhengzhou downtown area, we suggest you go to Henan Museum, Erqi Memorial Tower, etc. Transportation: From Zhengzhou East Station, you can transfer to the downtown area by local Metro Line 1 for about 55 minutes. To get to Yellow Scenic Area, you need to go by car, and it needs about 50 minutes for 40km.
Furthermore, you can also go to visit Shaolin Temple by car for about 1 hour and 40 minutes for about km.
On Beijing Xian high speed trains, there are three types of seats: the " Business Class Seats " like the first class seat in an aircraft and the most comfortable and expensive, with the price of To book a Beijing Xian high speed train ticket, you could choose to book it at the official website: China Railway Customer Service Center or with a travel agency, also you could directly tell China Discovery to book the tickets for you.
To collect your high speed train ticket, you could go to the railway station nearby, however, the Self-service Ticketing Machines are not serving foreign people. Besides, you can tell China Discovery to help you to do the collection, which only needs your passport information. Keep the ticket well, because the ticket will be checked again to leave the station after you get off.
All high speed trains in China are equipped with advanced facilities and good service to make your journey more convenient and comfortable. There are different places you can put your luggage onboard, racks and specialized luggage storage areas. The flight itself from Beijing to Xi'an will take 2. Security check and check-in time at the airport take a longer time than at the train station. To sum up, the flight from Beijing to Xi'an is much faster than the high-speed train.
But the total travel time from door to door doesn't have much difference. Flights are more likely to delay than high-speed trains due to its sensitivity to the weather. If you are traveling from Beijing to Xi'an with children, or with families as a group, it is recommended to take a high-speed train instead of a flight, because of the following reasons:.
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