How to book travel tickets and hotels in Chinese

Are you an experienced traveler when living in China? In a trip, the most important part is to book travel tickets and hotels. Do you know how to book them in Chinese? In this article, you will learn how to buy travel tickets and hotels in Chinese!

Let’s begin with some basic words and expressions.

First, the most important is to know how to express the time and the date.

年nián: year
月yuè: month
号hào (日rì): date
星期xīngqī: week

We just need to add numbers after “星期xīngqī”, And from Monday to Saturday, we followed the same rule as “星期 xīngqī +numbers”.
Then we could know “星期一xīngqīyī ” is Monday, “星期二xīngqīèr” is Tuesday.
However, “星期七xīngqīqī” is not correct, instead, we say “星期天(日)xīngqītiān(rì)”.

点diǎn: o’clock
分fēn: minute
今天jīntiān: today
明天míngtiān: tomorrow

Please be aware that the order of time words is from the long one to the short one.

Here are some examples:
2017年nián 6月yuè 28日rì
星期三xīngqī sān
8点diǎn 30分 fēn
今天jīntiān
10点diǎn 45分 fēn

Second, the following are some transportation tools.

车chē: car;
vehicle 船chuán:
ship 火车huǒchē: train
飞机fēijī: plane

When we say different kinds of travel tickets in Chinese, we add “票piào” after the transportation tools:
(飞)机票(fēi)jīpiào: plane ticket
火车票huǒchēpiào: train ticket
船票chuánpiào: ferry ticket
汽车票 qìchēpiào: bus ticket

And here are some types of the hotel room.

单人间dānrén jiān: single room
双人间shuāngrén jiān: double room
双床间shuāngchuáng jiān: twin room
三人间 sānrén jiān: triple room
大床间 dàchuáng jiān: king & queen size room

Then let's see some sentences to book a ticket or a room.

Wǒ yào dìng yīzhāng cóng Guǎngzhōu dào Shēnzhèn de chēpiào, míng tiān 15 diǎn 30 fēn de.
我要订一张从广州到深圳的车票，明天15点30分的。
I would like to buy a ticket From Guangzhou to Shenzhen. It’s 15:30 tomorrow.

Wǒ yào dìng yī ge dān rén jiān , liù yuèèr shí bā rì rùzhù, zhù yī wǎn.
我要订一个单人间，6月28日入住，住一晚。
I would like to book a single room for June 28th and stay for one night.

In addition, we need to provide other more information as names, passport numbers, addresses, telephone numbers and so on.

There are these words you need to know.

姓名xìngmíng: full name
护照hùzhào: passport
地址dìzhǐ: address
电话diàn huà: telephone
号码hàomǎ: number
邮箱yóuxiāng: e-mail

Then let's see some useful sentences about these information.

Qǐngwèn nínde xìngmíng shì…？
请问您的姓名是……?
May I have your full name, please?

Wǒ xìng ... jiào …
我姓……，叫……
My surname is … and my first name is …

Qǐngwèn nínde hùzhào hàomǎ shì duōshao?
请问您的护照号码是多少？
May I have your passport number, please?

Wǒde hùzhào hàomǎ shì
我的护照号码是……
My passport number is…

Qǐng liú yīge liánxì diànhuà.
请留一个联系电话。
Please give me your contact number.

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