Originally Posted by
warakorn
If you want experience huge flat bed seats, you can take a classical night trains in soft or hard sleeper. Its only a fraction of the Business Class price.
Or the faster D carriage sleeper trains.
I have absolutely no interest in doing Beijing - Shanghai or vice versa any other way than in the (relatively) high speed sleeper if my customers and biz partners do not prefer other means.
The same goes for many other Chinese domestic connections and I'll switch Beijing/Shanghai to/from Hong Kong point-to-point trips completely to night trains once the Kowloon HSR terminal opens.