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[quote=JSUMMERS83,291939]If I remember correctly there are a few night trains from Beijing to Xi'an.  It's really not a far ride.  You fall asleep in Beijing and wake up in Xi'an.  If you're traveling alone it doesn't quite matter if it's soft sleeper or hard sleeper.

I agree with all the above, though, about the $20 fee for train tickets.  Way too much money!  I understand how hard it is to stop thinking in terms of dollars, but realize that that fee is somewhere between a 25%-33% commission on your actual ticket price.  That's unacceptable anywhere you travel.  If you're traveling anytime in the next month you shouldn't have any problems getting a ticket from your hotel once you arrive.

Remember that if you get here and don't find the right train tickets, the closer you are to the date of departure here in China, the cheaper the airline tickets.  In other words, don't fret.  Hopefully you can get a train for the experience of it all, but if not there will be an airplane in the nice, new Beijing airport waiting to whisk you away to Xi'an.[/quote]

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