The international airport in Xiamen is called Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport (Chinese: 厦门高崎国际机场).
How to reach Xiamen University?
It's about 15.7 kilometers from the airport to XMU.
You can choose to take taxi or airport bus to get to the university.
Taxi
Metered or not? Generally speaking, legal taxicabs are metered in Wenzhou, and those are your first choice. But unlicensed cabs or called unmetered cabs are crowded over airport, and sometimes even legal taxi drivers waiting at the airport don't like to meter, especially when they carry a foreign customer at night. So you'd better to learn a reasonable fare range in advance.
Starting fare in Wenzhou during daytime (05:00-23:00 GMT+8) is RMB 8 for the first 3 kilometers, and cost RMB 2/ kilometer afterwards;starting fare in Wenzhou at night (23:00-05:00 GMT+8)is RMB 9.6 for the first 3 kilometers, and cost RMB 2.4/ kilometer afterwards.
It's not customary to tip the drive.
It will cost you RMB 50 and 1 hour to get to the school (it is just a reference). If you arrive at night, and no driver would like to carry you with metering, you can pay him RMB 100 which is also seen as reasonable.
Bus
Take Tourist Bus No. 1 at Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport Station (in Chinese: 厦门高崎国际机场站) and get off at Dongdu Station (in Chinese Characters:东渡站). After you get off, transfer to Bus No.22 or No.135 and get off at Xiada Xicun Station (in Chinese Characters:厦大西村站). Then you can find it.
Useful Expression:
English: Hi, taxi! Please take me to Xiamen University. It's at No.422 South Siming Road, Xiamen.
Chinese: 师傅，您好！请带我去厦门大学，地址厦门市思明南路422号。
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