Some argue that museums are a must-go when you travel to a new city. They offer a unique window through which visitors can catch a glimpse of the city’s past. But, hold up! Before you go inside a museum, you have to buy tickets, don’t you! Then, what words do we have to know to buy tickets in Mandarin? In what follows, we are going to look at words and phrases we use to buy tickets.

Specify the number or type of tickets you intend to buy

你好，我要買兩張全票跟一張兒童票。

nǐ hǎo, wǒ yào mǎi liǎng zhāng quán piào gēn yì zhāng ér tóng piào

Hi, I’d like to get two tickets for adults and one for children.

When you don’t know what tickets you should get, you can let them figure out for you by telling them the identities of buyers

你好，我們要買三張票。我們有兩個大人跟一個小孩。

nǐ hǎo, wǒ men yào mǎi sān zhāng piào。 wǒ men yǒu liǎng ge dà rén gēn yí ge xiǎo hái。

Hi, we’d like to get three tickets. There are two adults and one child.