The trip back to Shanghai was uneventful. We left the hotel at 7:10am for our 9:00am flight. The taxi took 35 minutes and cost 100RMB off-meter. (Without asking, the Hilton doorman told us it would be 100 before we left.) There’s not much to do at the a/p. There were a few booths/salespeople selling overpriced necklaces of shell and pearl and some food, but that’s about it. We secured our exit row seats for the partially empty flight back to Shanghai that arrived on time.

Just for fun we took the Maglev train from Pudong a/p toward the city. (The line ends in an outer suburb.) Seems like it cost 40 RMB p.p. if you had your airline ticket and 50 if you didn’t. Of course we no longer had ours so we paid the extra buck. Supposedly it’s a 7-minute trip but I wasn’t paying attention cuz I was focused on getting a glare-less photo of the speedometer showing 431 km/h. The maglev was fine but nothing I’ll ever do again.