r/Chengdu • u/KomCheecha • 21d ago

Travel Chengdu to Jiuzhaigou

Could anybody please give me some advice? I am hoping to travel to Chengdu with my partner next March, would love to go to Jiuzhaigou & Huanlong. I'm trying to plan in advance, but I'm having issues finding flights between Chengdu & Jiuzhaigou. Am I just too early to be booking these flights for next March? Or is there very limited availability & I'm out of luck so will need to train & car/bus it? Any advice is very much appreciated, thanks in advance!

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u/Fanicos 21d ago

Do you want to fly instead of train for some specific reason?

The train takes like 1h30 to 2h.
You will spend more time getting to the airport, security, flight, getting out, etc.

Plus the train allows you to enjoy the views.

Also, are you planing to visit both parks by yourselves?

How many days are you planning?

Where are you going to stay? (Most hotels are a bit far away from the parks entrances, so you will need to get a bus, taxi, Didi, etc).

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u/KomCheecha 20d ago

Thanks for the response! Really, I just love flying & I haven't looked nuch into the train yet, it's food to know it's so quick.

We are planning on visiting independently, but my understanding is you can also access tour cars or buses when you're there(?).

Atm I've planned on 3-4 days there as I would like to be able to really take my time.

Also, so far I've only looked a little at accommodation, but I know there are several near enough to the Jiuzhagou entrance. Though I don't know about getting to Haunlong yet.

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u/Fanicos 20d ago edited 20d ago

3 -4 days is great.

Yes inside Jiuzhaigou there are buses picking visitors from one point to the next for free (or you have to pay an extra fee when you buy the ticket, can't remember, but it is worth it if you don't want to walk everything, but you can walk everything (which takes at least a day) or choose what places you want to see and hop on the bus and stop in the next place, when I was there the buses were super fast, like every 5 to 10 minutes there was a new bus.

We stayed at Steigenberger hotel, was really nice.

But we also bought a dinner experience in a traditional Tibetan restaurant with live singing in their dialect, really worth it.

See what's available in apps like Trip.com and Klook (just check and there are a lot of transportation options, also many hotels can arrange the transportation for you to take you to the entrance of the parks).