Guangzhou Travel Forum

Hi all,

I am visiting guangzhou in the second week of may and will be staying at Lido hotel. I have a 2 questions to ask..

1) Is there airport coaches where I can take to Lido hotel? if not,what is the rate for taxi?

2) I will be going to hongkong from GZ and plan to make train from gz east station. How do I do to the east station from Lido hotel by subway?

Hope to get a reply soon!
Thank you!

1) None direct to the hotel, but you could take one that arrives close, and transfer to a taxi. What time is your flight arriving?
2) Take a taxi to the nearest metro stop and then the metro to Guangzhou East train station. If you have a lot of luggage I would suggest that you take taxi all the way instead.

Lido Hotel is on Beijing lu. Nearest metro stop is Haizhu Square (haizhuguangchang) on line 2. To get to East railway station, take line 2 direction San yuan li then change to line 1 at gongyuanqian, direction railway station east. You can also get a bus to HK from Haizhu square, outside Canton Landmark Hotel, and from China Hotel, on line 2 at Yuexiu station.

Airport bus route 5 goes to Guangdong hotel, which is a short taxi ride from the Lido hotel. A taxi from the airport to the Lido hotel would be in excess of 100RMB.

Hi all,

My flight will arrive morning 1030am.

I have another question, I will be taking train from Guangzhou East Station to Hong Kong. May i know how should i purchase the train tickets? Must i purchase personally at the train station it self? And is there any shopping areas around the East station ? Thanks for all the help!

There's a dedicated ticket office at East railway station. I only went that way once, and the train was pretty empty, so no problems about turning up and boarding. You do need to be there a bit early though, as you go through passport control etc. before boarding.

There are 15 trains a day I think, first is at 8:20 last is at 21:27 and the journey is scheduled to be around 1h40. Fare is 190RMB I think. Bus (to Prince Edward) takes about 2h30 but costs only 80RMB.

What sort of shopping do you mean? Ikea is a short walk from East station. Not much else, apart from US visa office and a few banks.

hey all..

thank you so much for ur replies! =)