Originally Posted by
SEW247
Thanks for your feedback, I'm amazed that there isn't anything in Beijing apart from an hourly hotel. I'm actually heading out to Tianjin so will be taking a train there from Beijing South.
As your former home airport, assuming I'm out by 09:00, do you have any idea how long it would take a taxi to take me to the Beijing South High Speed Railway station / how much it might cost?
I cant remember how I got there last time, but I seem to recall it being quite chaotic once I arrived and seemed incapable of getting a first class train ticket which was a pain. They also made me take down my suitcase from the overhead luggage rack which meant sitting with a large suitcase in an aisle.
Be careful, there are also sharks in the vicinity of the official cab ranks in the basement. Make sure the cab has a meter, and the driver should take payment at the end of the journey. Last week, from the official queue, I was shown to some sort of people carrier and informed that it was an official taxi and I had to pay 700RMB up front to get into town.
I laughed and got out, then proceeded to inform the rest of the queue about this thieving b*stard. Hopefully my irritable, jet-lagged outburst ruined his morning
