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Help needed booking for Lhasa Tibet from Shanghai

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Guest Posted: 20-Mar-2007 23:43

Help needed booking for Lhasa Tibet from Shanghai

We (2 of us) want to book the train from Shanghai to Lhasa but need a travel agent to arrange the travel permit without having to purchase expensive tour add-ons.

Has anyone done this or could recommend a reliable no-fuss travel agent in Shanghai?

Our time is limited - spent a while wasting time with a Lhasa-based travel agent who is getting less helpful by the day - and more expensive with the quotes.

Thanks, Steph.

Posted
21-Mar-2007 01:59
by: oceanbeijing

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you cam call CTS china holaidays ,shanghaishihua travel angency ,tel to 021 38821691

Posted
21-Mar-2007 05:50
by: amazingpudding

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you can buy the train tickets to lhasa 20 days in advance at the train station.
noone in shanghai can organize you just the permit - you have to join a chinese tour group to get to lhasa.
to avoid this, you can take the lhasa-bound train to golmud, buy the permit there, and then go on to lhasa.
or just go on the lhasa-train and try it without permit. some people told me that it workes!

Posted
21-Mar-2007 08:28
by: zhaoyun

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I'm not so sure about that, #2.... never heard of 20 days in advance!
Try PMing Losang. He seems to know the best agents around.

Posted
21-Mar-2007 09:16
by: firescorpy

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Registered: 28/09/06

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I called Shanghai station, and they say you can only buy the ticket 10 days in advance. I heard there is a branch of the government travel agency to Tibet in Shanghai.. I'll need to look up the phone number.

Keep going and you'll eventually make it..

Posted
21-Mar-2007 12:44
by: westwood

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Sims GH in Chengdu say 10 days so unless Shanghai is different--- there you have it!!

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Posted
21-Mar-2007 12:48
by: westwood

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BTW, #2 intends travelling either 24th or 26th April. Maybe that person could report back 20 days prior and let us know if they managed to get tickets.

"The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."

Posted
21-Mar-2007 17:57
by: Khema

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#2:
phone number of the Tibet Tourism Bureau, Shanghai office is 021-62288845/64311084

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21-Mar-2007 18:26
by: zhaoyun

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#7, I think you can't deal with the TTB directly- you can only get a permit through an agent, who obtains it from them.

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22-Mar-2007 02:41
by: Khema

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#8, may be the TTB in Shanghai has a list of 'approved agents' (in Shanghai) that they deal with...

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22-Mar-2007 04:49
by: amazingpudding

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Registered: 18/03/07

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i will take the train from shanghai to lhasa on april 24.
i will buy the tickets 20 days in advance, just as the lady at the hangzhou train station (i live in hangzhou) told me.
if it really works, i will tell you!
sven.

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