Preparing before traveling to China (Shanghai)
🌸Air tickets
1. Prepare a passport with more than 6 months of expiration date. No visa required.
2. Book a flight ticket through the airline or via the Trip.com app, which has many airlines such as Spring Airlines, Thai AirAsia X, China Eastern Airlines, Shanghai Airlines, Thai Vietjet Air, Air China, Thai Airways, Bangkok Airways. All airlines have direct flights, approximately 4-5 hours, ticket prices are approximately 10,000 - 15,000 baht.
🌸Accommodation
📍Address: Home Inn Plus Hotel (Shanghai Xintiandi
Lujiabang Road Metro Station)
🏖️Environment/Facilities: Breakfast is provided for 1 person. Buy an additional 48 yuan or 225 baht per person. Buffet style. Stay 2-3 people per room. There are both double beds and 2 single beds.
💰Average price per person: Approximately 1,800 baht per night. Use the same power plugs as in Thailand.
🗓️Travel planning: How to get to the accommodation Metro: Madang Road (280m) or Metro: Lujiabang Road (450m)
💞Recommended reasons: Good location, near Xintiandi, near 2 subway stations, easy to find food, inexpensive, quite high reviews
🌸Spending money
1. Through the Alipay app, you have to top up the app, you can exchange from the RMB exchange group, link a credit card, or transfer from True Money to Alipay
💞Recommended reasons: You can use the money in the app to spend on many things, such as calling a taxi, buying things, paying for public transportation, both buses and trains, ordering food delivery, easy to spend at every store
2. Use a credit card or Travel Card 💞Recommended reasons: Convenient, no need to exchange RMB
3. Through the True Money app 💞Recommended reasons: No need to exchange RMB, can be linked to a Thai bank or credit card, and can be used in China
4. Through the Wechat Pay app, you have to top up or link a credit card as well. 💞Recommended reasons: Convenient, widely used in China, can be used at every store
🌸Internet
1. Buy a SIM card from Thailand or open roaming from Thailand by yourself. You must prepare enough internet for use. 💞Reason for recommendation: You can play all apps without using VPN. Convenient to use
2. Buy a SIM card in China, but you may not be able to play foreign applications, such as Tiktok, Instagram. 💞Reason for recommendation: It is cheaper than opening roaming from Thailand.
3. Use WiFi at your accommodation in China. You will not be able to play foreign apps. If you want to use it, you must open VPN. 💞Reason for recommendation: You can use the service for free when asking for a password from your accommodation or a restaurant with Wi-Fi.
🌸Food
Shanghai's famous food, such as crab noodles, steamed buns, xiao long bao, barbecue restaurants, hot pot restaurants, bakeries such as Butterful & Creamorous, famous milk tea brands such as Hey tea, Naixue, etc. The cost of a meal is approximately 500-1,000 baht.
🌸Dress code
1. Spring, from April to June, the average temperature is 15-20 degrees Celsius. There may be rain on some days.
2. Prepare long-sleeved shirts that are not too thick. And long pants
Such as sweaters, sweaters
🌸Travel
1. Take the subway and bus by paying the fare via the Alipay app, 2-5 yuan per trip. From the airport to the city, take the Maglev for only 8 minutes. 💞Reason for recommendation: The subway is relatively cheap.
2. Use the map app on the iPhone, such as Apple Map, Baidu Map (百度地图), Tencent Map (腾讯地图) 💞Reason for recommendation: More accurate than using Google Maps.
3. Call a taxi via an app, such as Didi. 💞Reason for recommendation: Convenient for picking up and dropping off at places that are not near the subway station or bus stop.
🌸Essential applications
1. Alipay and True Money 💞Reason for recommendation: Used for shopping, spending in daily life.
2. Google Translate app 💞Reason for recommendation: Helps with language translation, used to communicate with Chinese people. Use to translate signs
3. Apple Map or Baidu Map (百度地图) 💞Recommended reason: Use to open the navigation map
4. Shanghai Disneyland app 💞Recommended reason: Use to open the map in Shanghai Disneyland and use to check the queue for various books
5. Wechat app 💞Recommended reason: Use to communicate with Chinese people like the LINE app in Thailand. Use to pay for shopping
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