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It is all about adventure and I like everything about it. The good and the bad.

Very comfortable and timely, but hygiene and availability of personnel much lower than Russian trains

I would give it 7 stars, for the fact the actual train ride was decent. My friend and I had two Swedish people in our compartment who were really friendly. The beds were okay, however even if you put on the AC it is still too hot during the day since you are riding through the Gobi desert I assume. The food was good, but quite pricey which is the same for the train ticket. It cost around $185 for about 32 hours from Ulaanbaatar to Beijing (but I think the whole Transsib from Vladivostok to St. Petersburg only costs $364 for the cheapest ticket). At the Chinese border they also linked more cars to the train with Chinese passengers and I don't think that they've paid such a high price for it, so the value for money isn't really that good. Both border controls together took around 7 hours (which is definitely too much and very inconvenient): around 2 hours on the Mongolian side where they check your passport and visa for China & then around 4/5 hours on the Chinese side where you have to get off with your luggage, where you get through security, check your passport and then you have to wait at a train station full of "Schaben" (German word for it) which can also fly and continuously land on you. This was a very unpleasant experience too. The scenery along the road is beautiful, and we are both happy that we took the train, but it's definitely not worth to repeat the trip.

It was an easy way to travel between Ulaan Bataar and Beijing

Not very clean, old and uncomfortable wagons!

Train was pretty uncomfortable compared to other trains in Russia. Bed is a hard mattress with dirty blankets. We were not offered other amenities that we had previously received on other legs of the Transmongolian Way.