How to buy tickets at tourist sites in Chinese
You arrive at the ticket window of a famous classical garden in Suzhou. You want one adult ticket. The seller speaks simply, asks for your passport (tickets are real-name) and you pay by scanning a QR code.
How the conversation starts
小王 (Xiao Wang) · ticket seller at the garden
Buy a ticket at a tourist site
What you do
- Say how many adult tickets you want
- Show your passport
- Pay by scanning a QR code
What to say
- 我要一张成人票。Wǒ yào yì zhāng chéngrén piào.One adult ticket, please.
- 这是我的护照。Zhè shì wǒ de hùzhào.Here is my passport.
- 多少钱？Duōshao qián?How much is it?
- 我扫码付。Wǒ sǎo mǎ fù.I'll pay by scanning the code.
Buy a ticket at a tourist site
You're at the ticket window of a famous classical garden in Suzhou. The clerk asks how many tickets you want and whether you'd like an audio guide, needs your passport for the real-name ticket, and you pay by scanning a QR code.
What you do
- Say how many tickets you want
- Ask about an audio guide (or say you don’t need one)
- Show your passport and pay by QR code
What to say
- 我要一张票。Wǒ yào yì zhāng piào.I want one ticket.
3 more sentences in this lesson, in the app.
Tourist site: sold out online
You and a friend are at the ticket office of the Humble Administrator's Garden (拙政园) in Suzhou. Popular sites in China sell their tickets online days ahead, by real name; you didn't book. You'd like audio guides too.
What you do
- Ask for two tickets for today
- Today's are sold out: ask about tomorrow and book with your passports
- Ask about the audio guide (price, deposit) and decide
What to say
- 我要两张今天的票。Wǒ yào liǎng zhāng jīntiān de piào.Two tickets for today, please.
4 more sentences in this lesson, in the app.
Now say it out loud
In Kaiko, 小王 (Xiao Wang) answers you out loud in Chinese, and a coach corrects you as you go.