China travel
Shanghai train stations:
- Central Station (to Beijing)
- Shanghai South Railway Station
Both stations can be reached with metro line 1.
A train journey between Shanghai and Beijing with the fast D-train takes 10 hours. From Shanghai to Suzhou is between 40 and 90 minutes. The fast Shanghai Maglev Train serves the airport to Shanghai.
taxi
The fare is 11 Yuan for the first 3 kilometers. The next 3-10 kilometers is 2 Yuan per km. Taxis at the Central Station square can be found underground, below street level.
underground
Shanghai Metro Operation Co (SMOC) operates 4 metro lines with a total length of 124km. Longest line is line 1 with 33km.
There are 3 types of tickets. One-through tickets: cost between 3 and 9 Yuan depending of the 5 fares zone.
One-through cards: (card deposit of 30 Yuan and can be used in metro, bus and taxi).
Souvenir tickets: can be used only once.
Between 5.30 and 23.30 are no metro trains driving.
hotels
Through this website, hundreds of hotels can be booked. There are many cheap hotels: about 150 hotels have rates under the 250 Yuan per night. Cheapest is Baolong Homelike Hotel with 128 Yuan. The most expensive hotel is the JW Marriott Hotel at Tomorrow Square with 2875 Yuan.
We stayed in the Pacific Luck Hotel in 2004. A three star hotel downtown withn broadband internet and free use of computer in the room. Nanjing Road and the Bund are about 10 minutes walking away. Rate of the room in 2007 is about 68 USD.
view from our hotelroom in the Pacific Luck Hotel
In the middle is the The Oriental Pearl TV Tower.
- shanghai attractions
In shanghai we stayed 3 days. We visited the main attractions like: the shopping streets Nanjing Road and Sichuan Road, the Shanghai Museum and the The Oriental Pearl TV Tower in Pudong. The view from this tower is spectacular. The highest level is at 350 meter!
Next to the tower is the Shanghai Ocean Aquarium. The Ocean Aquarium is one of the largest ocean aquariums in Asia, featuring the longest underwater viewing tunnel 155 meters long
- Shanghai general information
Shanghai, The Bund
The Bund is a famous promenade along the Huangpu River. Hundred years ago, Western countries build their consulates and banks here. The Bund became the financial and political center from China. That's why you can find here many old buildings in all kind of architectural styles who reminds of those days.
Robert at the Bund boulevard in Shanghai
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