Originally Posted by
noooah
Hello fellow FTer's,
I booked a last minute train ticket from Shanghai to Xi'ian on the 2nd which coincidentally is on the HUGE Chinese week-long holiday and was wondering if anyone has information what the trains will be like? I have, unfortunately, a HARD SEAT and heard horror stories about these but anyone else got another opinion? Many thanks
I must say, you choose a wrong time to travel.
It definitely very crowded in national day holiday. But also, the extent of crowding depends on which trains and what kind of tickets you booked.
T and Z trains are much better,clean and on time. Usually over-selling ticket is impossibe at soft-sleeper and hard-sleeper canbins, so not very crowded.
Hard seat ? give it up! especially the slow trains' hard seat!
T116 and Z92 are the fatest trains from Shanghai to Xian.