Thanks for the advice all helps clarify my thoughts and cost/reward points (and when getting tickets delivered to the hotel there is no pickup issue - just a matter of the conductor to deal with!), to pick up on the point below:
Originally Posted by
jiejie
While I don't know the context of your travel immediately before and after this segment, I'm not convinced that this long train ride is your only (or best) option. Are you visiting Fenghuang or just wanting to get from Zhangjiajie/Wulingyuan to Guilin as quickly as possible? Are you going to the Longji Rice Terraces or omitting?
I'd be really keen if you could suggest a good alternative, from my reading I hadn't really seen any suitable alternatives. The
before/after to this trip is:
- Three Gorges river cruise
- Wuhan overnight (twice) to see the area/experience a more local city
- Wuhan-Changsa G train VIP class, bus to Zhangjiajie
- Couple of days in Zhangjiajie
- Zhangjiajie->Fenghuang->Huaihua (one day)
- This trip
- Guilin for a couple of days (would probably see the terraces then I presumed, worst case on a day trip)
- Guilin - lijiang (flight?)
- Lijiang for a couple of days
- Flight back to Chengdu and home the next day
So then it's a matter of getting to Guilin: Happy to have any alternatives suggested - I would like to see Zhangjiajie and Guilin, and there didn't seem to be much in the middle to try and see (and flights didn't really seem to work in this area as an alternative) - any suitable breaks/detours would be appreciated