Originally Posted by
heman_s
Hello Everyone. We are travelling ORD-PVG-NRT and NRT-PVG-ORD. We are staying overnight in Shanghai during both legs.
Is the baggage storage facility easily accesible ? Is there any advantage of leaving the bags at arrival vs departure ?
Our flight is 5:30 PM from Shanghai to Narita. If we leave the bund area around 1:30 PM, is that sufficient time to make it to airport and catch the flight ? We will go to the maglev station and catch the maglev.
While coming back, our Chicago flight is 11:30 AM from PVG. If we leave bund area at 7:30 AM is it sufficient ? Please advise as we are not aware about the traffic direction and security check lines. I am assuming 1 hr for travel to PVG and 3 hours for checkin etc.
Please advise.
Regards
I would (and have) taken Maglev from the PVG airport, I would not take it to the airport, as it does not really save time (it gets you into the center of PVG airport between the terminals, then you need walk 5-15 min to ticket counters). Taxi will drive to the Terminal door (AA is T2 if I remember), and should be less than a hour. The AA flight, I have left from near the Hilton at 845am (from the Bund should the same or less travel time), get to PVG via Taxi before 945am, and had lots of time check in and no need to rush. In Shanghai I have not really had hard time get a Taxi, unlike Beijing which can tough at times.