According to the reservation group of the visitor service center in the
Bureau of Expo Coordination, now reservation is provided in about 30 national
pavilions, theme pavilions and enterprise pavilions.
Since the Expo
opened to the public, reservations of many pavilions such as China Pavilion have
been available for visitors. Among them, pavilions with reservation only are
China Pavilion, Macao Pavilion (before 5:30 pm everyday), Taiwan Pavilion and
Space Pavilion (the simulation machine part); pavilions adopting partial
reservation include the five branch pavilions of Theme Pavilions: Urbanian
Pavilion, Pavilion of City Being, Pavilion of Urban Planet, Pavilion of Urban
Footprints and Pavilion of Future; also 20 other foreign national pavilions and
enterprise pavilions provide this service. Meanwhile, some popular activities
and performances in the Expo site also require reservation, including inside and
outside performances for limited audience with tickets not-for-sale, special
joint performances, and activities in national pavilion days, etc.
After
the Expo opens everyday, visitors, with Expo tickets for that day, can get
a“City Card Album”from the northern inquiry in the UBPA area in Puxi, of which
1000 copies will be given out each day. Visitors with the“City Card Album”only
need certain amounts of stamps on it to visit some pavilions without lining. At
present, national pavilions which have confirmed taking part in this activity
are China Pavilion, Saudi Arabia Pavilion, Germany Pavilion, Spain Pavilion,
Italy Pavilion and Czech Pavilion.
It’s known that group reservation is
provided in almost 10 pavilions including Italy Pavilion, Mexico Pavilion and
Hungary Pavilion. Group reservation should be made at least one week in advance.
Ways of reservation for pavilions
China Pavilion
Individual visitors to get electronic reservation
tickets
China Pavilion adopts the method of reservation-only.
Now among visitors having made reservations, one-third are group tourists who
can visit the pavilion with group reservation tickets; the rest are individual
visitors who need to get electronic reservation tickets at the entrance gate.
Sweden Pavilion
"Slide fun" requires reservation
Two reservation
machines stand near the gate of Sweden Pavilion, giving out about 800
reservation tickets everyday from 9 am when the Expo opens. Visitors make
reservations with the checked Expo tickets for that day, and one Expo ticket for
only one reservation.
With reservation tickets, visitors will have access
to the popular programs inside the pavilion --- the Art Slide in the third
exhibition hall.
Czech Pavilion
Reservation and barrier-free access by collecting stamps both
do
Reservation machines have already been installed in Czech
Pavilion. Visitors can make reservations through those machines or line up to
visit; meanwhile, Czech Pavilion has participated in the activity
of“barrier-free access by collecting stamps in UBPA”, in which visitors can go
directly into the pavilion through VIP lane by showing the City Card Album with
Czech’s city stamp in Puxi area on it, and meeting other conditions of this
activity.
Finland Pavilion
Reserve through texts
Visitors who want to visit
Finland Pavilion can send a message to reserve, which will cost 1
yuan.
Visitors can edit“85401+period of time inquired”and send to
1066666620 (China Mobile users from Jilin and Jiangxi should send to
106666662008). Then, reply“01+starting time”according to the information cue. If
it succeeds, you will receive a two-dimensional multimedia message and an
ordinary piece of message. Visitors can get entrance tickets with those
messages.
Hong Kong Pavilion
Make a reservation, or line up
Visitors need to make
reservations in the north side of the pavilion with the Expo tickets for that
day. The reservation tickets, which allow you to visit from 11 am to 9 pm, will
be given out 2000 copies a day, starting from 9:30 am. People can still line up
to visit the pavilion, but over two hours will be needed during peak hours.
Macao Pavilion
Ling-up available after 6 pm
Macao Pavilion has required reservation since July. Visitors will need to make reservations on the two reservation machines in the north side of the pavilion with the Expo tickets for that day, and around 5500 reservation tickets will be given out each day. After 6 pm, ling-up for visiting will be available.
Some enterprise pavilions
Online-reservation provided
Some enterprise pavilions
provide online-reservation and telephone reservation, including GM Pavilion,
State Grid Pavilion, Shanghai Corporate Joint Pavilion, etc.
It is known
that when reserving on-line, personal information including one’s name, mobile
phone number, ticket number and city will be needed, and people can choose a
certain visiting date and period of time.