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Shanghai Expo Tips & Faqs, Shanghai World Expo Travel Guide
1. When the Shanghai Expo will be held?
2010 Shanghai World Expo will held from May 1st to October 31st, 2010 in Pudong District, Shanghai.
2. What is the open time of the Expo Park?
The Expo Park open time is 09:30 -- 22:30 every day during the Expo period.
3. What types of the Expo tickets are there?
Expo Tickets could be divided into two categories, Individual Tickets and Group Tickets.
Individual Tickets could be subdivided into 7 kinds of tickets: Peak Day single day admission, Peak Day special admission, Standard Day single day admission, Standard Day special admission, 3 day admission, 7 day admission ticket and evening admission.
Group Tickets could be further classified into 2 kinds: Group Admission & Student Group Admission.
4. What are Peak Day and Standard Day?
Peak Day refers to China Labor's Day (May 1st-3rd, 2010), National Day (October 1st - 7th, 2010) and Expo Ending Week (October 25th - 31st, 2010), totally 17 days.
Standard Day refers to all visiting days (167 days in total) except for Peak Days during the Expo.
5. What are Peak Day tickets?
Peak Day tickets are designed to control visitor flow on predicted peak days of the Expo by designating dates, limiting volume and increasing prices. They are further classified as Single Day Admission and Special Admission.
6. Are the visiting dates printed on all the tickets?
No. Visiting dates will be only printed on the Peak Day tickets.
7. What if I did not visit the Expo on the appointed date via my Peak Day tickets?
If you didn't visit the Expo on the dates printed on the Peak Day tickets, you still can visit the Expo Park with your tickets during the Standard Day period.
8. Who can buy Special Admission tickets?
The following people with valid identifications can buy Special Admission tickets: 1. the disabled; 2. people born in or before 1950; 3. students with valid IDs; 4. children above 1.2m; 5. Chinese military personnel on active duty.
Notice: Valid IDs are required upon ticket purchase and entry; one ticket per person, valid for one entry on the day of admission.
9. Who are free of charge to get in the Expo Park?
Children, whose height are less than 1.2 meters, are free of charge to get in the Expo Park with adults' accompany.
10. Can I enter the Expo Park several times a day via a 3-day ticket or a 7-day ticket?
No. You can choose 3 days or 7 days (Not the Peak Day period) to go to the Expo, only one entry a day.
11. Could 3-day or 7-day tickets only be used by the purchaser?
No. Ticket purchasers or other people can enter the Expo Park via 3-day or 7-day tickets. But 3-day tickets allow for 3 entries in 3 day (Not the Peak Day) in total, 7-day tickets for 7 entries in 7 days (Not the Peak Day).
12. Could Evening Admission Tickets be booked in advance?
No. To control the number of visitors, Evening Admission Tickets are only available at the Booking Office of Shanghai World Expo Park. The other 6 kinds of Individual Tickets could be booked in advance via designated Expo ticket-selling outlets.
13. Are there family tickets for Shanghai Expo?
No. There are no family tickets for the Expo.
14. Why Shanghai World Expo don't adopt named ticketing system and get the visitors' names printed on the tickets?
It is estimated that about 70 million visitors will go to Shanghai World Expo. In order to ease the ticket-booking procedure, Shanghai World Expo Committee decides not to adopt the real-name ticketing system.
15. Can a ticket-holder visit all the pavilions in the Expo Park?
Yes. According to the Conventions of World Expo, ticket-holders can visit all the pavilions in the Expo Park, except for some special arrangements made by the Expo organizers.
16. Can visitors enter the Expo several times in one day via single-day tickets?
No. One visitor can only enter the Expo for one time in one day via a single-day ticket.
17. Are the lunch covered in the Expo tickets?
No. Meals inside the Expo Park require extra charges.
18. Can people buy Group Tickets by themselves?
Group tickets are designed to encourage organized visits and balance visitor flow. The tickets are not available for individuals. Group Tickets could be booked through travel agencies appointed by the Expo Organizing Committee; Student Group Tickets could be purchased through appointed travel agencies or educational institutes or organizations.
19. How could foreign visitors book Shanghai Expo tickets?
Expo tickets are also available for overseas purchasers through channels appointed by the Expo Bureau in different countries and regions across the world. For more details, you could visit the official website of 2010 Shanghai World Expo
20. Could the Expo tickets be refunded or exchanged?
Expo tickets will not be refunded or exchanged once they are purchased. Visitors should read the Expo ticket instruction carefully before buying.
21. What I can do if I lost my ticket?
The only thing you could do is to buy another ticket. There is no refunding or compensation for you lost ticket. So you should take good care of your ticket after your purchasing.
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