Shanghai Pudong Airport Arrival

Shanghai Pudong Airport Arrival

We arrived at Shanghai Pudong Airport Terminal 2 at 12 midnight. The airport is massive with 200+ departure/arrival gates. Immigration queue and baggage claim is fast. As usual, we took city travel maps before heading out the airport.

Since it is already outside the operational hours of the Maglev train, we took a cab to the city center.  The taxi area in Shanghai Pudong Airport is easy to spot, especially that all signs in the airport are both in English and Chinese. It is also surprising that there are plenty of cabs in the taxi bay even in the wee hours of the morning. There is no need to queue. Taxi in Shanghai is safe and cheap, but be ready to brace yourself for a super fast crazy ride. J In about an hour, we reached our hotel in Puxi. Taxi fare from airport is about RM220.00 (USD 35.00).

The only downside with Shanghai cab drivers is that they don’t understand English. Anticipating this to happen, it’s a good thing that we have printed out taxi cards of our destinations before we departed for Shanghai. The taxi print outs indicate the Chinese name of your destination (hotel, mall, tourist place, etc) including a map which you can show to the taxi cab drivers. You can get the taxi print outs from ShanghaiMetro.com.


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