Before journey:

• Please come to the train station at least 1 hour before departure to allow enough time to find the right platform, especially for the Beijing - Moscow trains, which only stop in Ulaanbaatar for about 30 minutes.
  
  
• Depending on the country there are few kinds of the luggage weight allowance for transporting in train without any charge. In Mongolia, you are allowed to take 35kg of luggage, but for tourists, this is rarely checked, except when departing Beijing. In China, passenger trains are divided into three classes - the hard-seat class, the hard-couchette class and the soft-couchette class. An adult passenger is allowed to carry 20 kilograms of luggage free of charge each time taking a train, a child 10 kilograms and a diplomat 35 kilograms. The weight in excess of these standards will be chargeable for the luggage consignment fee.
  
  
• Don't forget to take your dictionary of the country you are visiting.
  
  
• You should get some clothes to change such as slippers, t-shirt etc. when you get into the train, because it isn't cold, sometimes quite warm in the train.

During journey:

• Meals voucher is attached to your ticket so you can have your meal at the restaurant carriages on the train.
  
  
• Note that toilets are normally locked whenever you are in a station and for five minutes before and after each stop.
  
• Showers are only available in the deluxe carriages. In 2nd and 1st class, there is a washroom and toilet at the end of each carriage.

After journey:

• You should check if your all luggage is checked out.
  
  
• If you don't know the city that you are arriving into, you must manage someone is picking you up in that country or if there isn't anyone who can pick you up, you should apply "Solid Ways" for this service. We do an arrangement for pick up and transfer the visitor to planned destination after the train. Our this kind of services are really affordable and safe, so contact us at Transfer request form.
  
  
• After leaving the train you might face another one problem. Almost all of the drivers of the taxi in Mongolia, Russia and China don't speak English. In this case you should ask whether the driver speaks English or you need maps.
  
  
• If you get a taxi with a driver who can't speaks English, you can't tell where you are going. For to avoid from this case you must write down the address and the name of the hotel that you are staying in, by the language of that country on the piece of paper, before the train.