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| Expo Volunteer Service on the street |
It is easy to make inquiries about Expo 2010 while staying in Shanghai. Expo information services supported by volunteers are available in high streets, Metro Stations, and China Mobile shops of Shanghai city center. Inquires in English language could be made via the Shanghai Call by dialing 962288 from any landline or local mobile phones in Shanghai. The 24-hour hotline, Shanghai Call, is operated by China Telecom, and staff could handle with ticket sales, licensed products, site tours, and complaints. Besides, inquiry services provided by China Mobile are also available in English language at 12580. The official Expo hotline at +86-21-962010 provides services in 12 languages including English, French, and Japanese, etc.
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| Expo tickets |
Upon arrival at Shanghai city on our first day, we obtained ticketing information from the Expo Volunteer Service Counter (see attached photo). The 3-day admission tickets can only be purchased from the Bank of Communication. Since it was already in the afternoon at the time of our inquiry, the 3-day admission tickets had already been sold out in the nearby branch. We had to travel to the official point of sales running by the Bank of Communication located at Number 80, Nanjing East Road (see attached photo). This is about 10 minutes walk from the Nanjing East Road Metro Station. All sorts of tickets, except the evening tickets, are always available in this sales point with closure at 4:30pm each day. The standard single day admission tickets are for sale at various places in Shanghai including selective local supermarkets, convenience stores, or on-site sales points. For the evening tickets, people can only obtain them from the sales points at the entrances to the Expo site. For prices and classifications of tickets, please refer to my previous blog dated May 4, 2010. Apart from local sales, overseas visitors can purchase tickets via authorized travel agents in their countries.
Please be reminded that the Standard Tickets cannot be used during the period between October, 1 and 7, 2010 (National Day Holiday) as well as between October 25 and 30, 2010 (the last week before the closure of the Expo). People have to use Peak Day Tickets instead. Although it is now more than 2 months before October, sales for the Peak Day tickets are very tight. Admission tickets for the Expo closure on October 31, 2010 have already been sold out. It is not sure whether or not there are any more sales. Tickets for October 30 are temporarily out of stock. There are limited number of tickets left for October 1.
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| Official point of sales for Expo tickets |
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