Is it worth planning a trip to China on trains?

Responds information department of "Subtlety of Tourism"
Local trains, ordinary and two-story, are marked with numbers (the cheapest and slowest) or in Latin letters (fast, high-speed). When buying a ticket for one of them, you need to choose in which of the 4 types of wagons you want to go. The first of these is Hard Seat, a stiff sedentary, a peculiar hybrid of our electric train and a common car. Toilets and washbasins are, but it's uncomfortable to ride: stuffy, noisy, dirty.

Quite a different picture in the car type Hard Sleeper, hard sleeping. It is similar to the usual reserved seat for us, only there are no side seats, instead of them there are 6 shelves in each block-compartment. Climb up to the very comfortable stairs, then you can pull the blind. The lower the shelf, the more expensive it is, therefore it is not acceptable to sit halfway down the neighbor.

Soft Seat wagons, soft sedentary. They are few, often included in high-speed day trains. Passenger seats are numbered, in wagons clean, you can smoke only in special places or prohibited at all.

Soft sleeping car, Soft Sleeper, is similar to our coupe for 4 seats. In some trains there is an even more comfortable Luxury Soft Sleeper car, practically our SV, where there are only two lower shelves in the compartment with a separate bathroom.

October 18, 2011

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