Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
To/From the Airport
Bright blue
airport shuttles
( Jichang Bashi; 8286 0977; ¥20)
follow three
routes through town. Shuttles leave hourly from the
Green Tree Inn
(77
Zhongshan Lu)
in Old Town from 5.40am to 7.40pm, and every half hour from
Haitian Hotel
(48 Xianggang Xilu) near No 3 Bathing Beach from 6am to 8pm
and the CBD's
Century Mandarin Hotel
(10 Haijiang Lu) from 6:10am to
5:45pm. A taxis to/from Shinan district is ¥80 to ¥100.
Public Transport
Outside the train station, red double-decker
sightseeing buses
(unlimited
¥30, per stop ¥10; hourly)
head to all the biggies: Bus 1 passes sights along
the water going east to Lao Shan from 9am to 3pm, last return at 5pm.
The highly-anticipated underground metro, scheduled to open in late 2014,
will hopefully ease Qingdao's gridlock.
Taxi
Flag fall is ¥9 or ¥12 for the first 6km and then ¥2.10 (slightly more at night)
per kilometre thereafter, plus a ¥1 fuel surcharge.
