{"id":2512,"date":"2011-01-15T16:36:19","date_gmt":"2011-01-15T08:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/?p=2512"},"modified":"2011-01-15T16:37:32","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T08:37:32","slug":"beijing-adjusts-its-train-presale-to-10-days-in-spring-festival-travel-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/beijing-travel\/beijing-tour-reviews\/beijing-adjusts-its-train-presale-to-10-days-in-spring-festival-travel-season","title":{"rendered":"Beijing adjusts its train presale to 10 days in Spring Festival travel season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\">This year&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/trip_advisors\/chinese_holidays_festivals\/chinese_spring_festival.php\">Spring Festival<\/a>\u00a0travel season ( Chunyun ) starts from Jan 19, 2011, 15 days before the Chinese lunar\u00a0new year&#8217;s day (Feb 03, 2011),\u00a0and ends on Feb 27, totalling 40 days. The annual srping festival witnesses the largest annual human migration in the world! Most Chinese people\u00a0are returning home for family reunion during Chinese new year in line\u00a0with a long-held tradition in China.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Today\u00a0Beijing Railway Bureau has\u00a0disclosed its spring 2011 program. It is\u00a0learned that\u00a0presale period for the D, Z, C, L prefix trains starting from Beijing have been extneded to 10\u00a0days,\u00a0other ticket pre-sale period\u00a0is\u00a05 days up front. During the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/trip_advisors\/chinese_holidays_festivals\/chinese_spring_festival.php\">Spring Festival<\/a> travel season, Beijing&#8217;s railway stations\u00a0add additional 492 temporary ticket windows, there will be 16 mobile ticket windows coming into the community, enterprises. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\">Travel peak starts from 7 days before\u00a0Spring Festival\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\">In the\u00a0total of 40 days of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/trip_advisors\/chinese_holidays_festivals\/chinese_spring_festival.php\">Spring Festival<\/a> travel rush, Beijing send out 10.60 million passengers throug rail system. The train travel during the 7 days before Feb 03,\u00a0is expected to be a sustained peak. One-day\u00a0climax expected\u00a0will be on January 31 and February 1, when passenger volume will reach 0.75 million passengers a day.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>Ticketing: Phone booking is suspended for all the Railway Stations in Beijing<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">During the spring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/trip_advisors\/chinese_holidays_festivals\/chinese_spring_festival.php\">Spring Festival<\/a>, the stations\u00a0add an additional 492 temporary ticket windows, toyalling 1389 ticketing office in Beijing. Among them, the Beijing Railway Station, Beijing South Railway Station ticket window 419, West Station, North Station ticket windows make up 350, ensuring 24-hour ticket selling. Meanwhile, in Beijing will also use mobile ticketing cars with 16 mobile ticket windows to open,in Fengtai, Chaoyang, Yizhuang and other densely populated industrial enterprises, communities and construction sites. Phone booking is suspended.<strong> <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\">You are advised to avoid traveling to Beijing or other parts of China during Chinese Spring Festival. But if you want to see a real Beijing, a real China, you must come to Beijing China during the most typical Chinese Spring Festival!<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\">Beijing Train Travel Tips<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\">1.Train tickets are hard to get during the following Chinese festivals and you are advised\u00a0to buy air-tickets on these special day:<br \/>\nNew Year&#8217;Day ( 1st Jan, three-day holiday )<br \/>\nTomb Sweeping Day ( Early April, 3-day holiday )<br \/>\nMid-Autumn festival ( Aug-Sept, 3-day holiday )<br \/>\nMay Day ( 1st May, three-day holiday)<br \/>\nNational Day (1st Oct, week-long holiday<br \/>\nChinese New Year ( later Jan and early Feb, not fixed and change according to Chinese lunar calendar\u00a0)<br \/>\n2.There are four major train stations in Bejing, please reconfirm with our trip advisor from which train station you are going to depart<br \/>\n3.Watch out for the hawkers outside the railway stations who may approach you with much sought-after train tickets. Beware that some of them are counterfeit and others are stolen.<br \/>\n4. You are kindly requested to get to the train station at least one hour before your train departure time.<br \/>\n5. You are also requested to go through the security check (luggage check) when you enter the main hall of the train station.<br \/>\n6. Passengers will be allowed on board the train 30 minutes before departure time. The train will be closed 5 minutes before departure .<br \/>\n7. If you miss the train or lose your tickets, you cannot have your tickets refunded and you have to buy another one.\u00a0<br \/>\n8. If you lose your tickets on the train, you are supposed to buy another one when pass the arrival station. So do not lose your tickets on the train<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\">9. More <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/china_rail_tours\/train_travel_tips\/\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\">China Train Tips<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\">.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\">Beijing Train Tours<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/xian_tours\/beijing_day_trip_to_xian_by_train.php\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\">Beijing Xian Day Tour by Train<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\"> from US$220 p\/p<br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/side_trips\/beijing_chengde_tour.php\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\">Beijing Chengde 2 Day Tour by Train<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\"> from US$188 p\/p<br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/side_trips\/beijing_datong_tour.php\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\">Beijing Datong 4 Day Tour by Train<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\"> from US$405 p\/p<br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/side_trips\/beijing_taiyuan_pingyao_tour.php\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\">Beijing Pingyao 2 Day Tour by\u00a0Bullet Train<\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/guilin_tour\/guilin_4_day_tour_package.php\"><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\"> from US$275 p\/p<br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/side_trips\/beijing_shaolin_kung_fu_luoyang_grottoes_rail_tour.php\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\">Beijing Luoyang 3 Day by Train<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\"> from US$205 p\/p<br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/side_trips\/beijing_beidaihe_qinhuangdao_tour\/classic_3-day_tour.php\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Beijing\u00a0Qinhuangdao 3 Day Tour by Train<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">from US$280 p\/p<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/beijing_tianjin_day_tour_by_bullet_train\/\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\">Beijing Tianjin Day Tour by Bullet Train<\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/guilin_tour\/guilin_longsheng_yangshuo_4-day_tour_packages.php\"><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\"> from US$70 p\/p<br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/side_trips\/beijing_harbin_tour_01.php\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\">Beijing Harbin 3 Day\u00a0Tour by Bullet Train<\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/guilin_tour\/guilin_longsheng_yangshuo_4-day_tour_packages.php\"><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> from US$307 p\/p<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 This year&#8217;s\u00a0Spring Festival\u00a0travel season ( Chunyun ) starts from Jan 19, 2011, 15 days before the Chinese lunar\u00a0new year&#8217;s day (Feb 03, 2011),\u00a0and ends on Feb 27, totalling 40 days. The annual srping festival witnesses the largest annual human migration in the world! Most Chinese people\u00a0are returning home for family reunion during Chinese new&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,31],"tags":[563,565,562,564],"class_list":["post-2512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beijing-tour-reviews","category-beijing-transportation","tag-beijing-chunyun","tag-beijing-spring-festival-rush","tag-beijing-spring-festival-travel","tag-beijing-spring-festival-travel-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2512"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2514,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512\/revisions\/2514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}