Talk:Huqiu, Suzhou

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By Plane: Suzhou has no airport, so your best option is in Shanghai. Hopefully, you'll fly through Hongqiao Airport, the closest airport located in the West of Shanghai - because the other choice, Pudong Airport, leaves you 45 minutes East of downtown Shanghai alone. Shanghai's subway system serves both airports, and has links to major train stations, but taxis (at least CNY 100 to 120) might be the choice for the weary, overburdened traveler.

By Train: Go to Shanghai Station (that's the main station — not to be confused with Shanghai South Station), where you can purchase train tickets to Suzhou. Buy yours at one of the automated kiosks there, especially for the high-speed trains. Don't worry about tickets being sold out — there are so many trains going to Suzhou every day, it's impossible not to get a seat. The trip from Shanghai to Suzhou takes a little under one hour.

Note: Once you arrive in Suzhou, the most comfortable way to the Suzhou Wedding Dress Street is by taxi (CNY 20 to 25) — but you can also get there by taking a bus to Tiger Hill (tourist buses CNY 1 and CNY 2 from the train station).^[1]

The above content was removed from the article because it probably belongs on WikiVoyage instead, but I don't know where. Leaving it here in case someone else does. Sam Walton (talk) 20:04, 20 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Looking in the history, I can see that this page has been edited quite a bit in the past 6-8 months for general cleanup and removal of material that doesn't fit Wikipedia as a whole. However, the remaining two sections are still... well, a bit poorly written. Honestly, I'm not even sure it belongs on the page, even if it is interesting material. It reads more like a paraphrased piece of promotional fluff material (which, judging by the source, it is). Reading the Chinese Wiki version of the page gives us a much more standard city/region page (intro, history, etc.). Now, I don't speak any form of Chinese, unfortunately, so I'm not going to be translating their page - nor am I comfortable copying and pasting a machine translated version of their page over what we have now.

So, really, for anyone that happens to stumble upon this page, my question is: should we leave these sections as is, attempt to salvage them and write them well (which, by the way, I sat for a good fifteen to twenty minutes and tried to just rewrite the first sentence of the Wedding Market section before honestly giving up trying to make heads or tails of what was trying to be said), or delete them entirely for being non-wiki material? 24.29.109.142 (talk) 03:58, 30 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]