The maglev is kinda cool and worth doing once, but I'd say that it's not very practical transportation. The main problem is that it terminates at Longyang Rd, which doesn't have much for visitors to do or see. The subway line 2, while much slower, is also much more useful and much cheaper too.
Still, with 6 hours to kill, I think the OP should take a ride on the maglev. Slight shame that it isn't at full speed then, but still it's pretty cool. Just take the next maglev back and then kick back at the reasonably good CA lounge.
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drvannostren
I didn't know about the massage place, I was actually quite impressed by the CA lounge though. Especially since it wasn't their hub. I'm headed to PEK in Jan and actually not looking forward to that lounge, from the reviews I've seen it doesn't look as good. 6 hours for me is nothing though, I'll just sit there, drink, surf the net, if I have any little things I'm working on I'll do that. I do recall them having massage chairs, maybe use one of those for a lil bit. The food I recall was of decent variety there too so that's certainly better than like a UA club.
Agree. The CA lounge at PVG is much better than their PEK lounge. I wish that CA would just renovate/build a new lounge at PEK based on the PVG lounge.