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New Year at the end of January 2017 . People can buy tickets using electronic wallets , cards or cash . The service will later be expanded to 300 Circle K and B ’ Smart stores as well as others like FPT shop , Viễn Thông A , Thế giới di động , Vinmart , and Ministop . This is expected to reduce the crowds at train and bus ticket counters before Tết . Tet train tickets will be available for booking from 8am of November 15th , announces Saigon Railway . The booking is supposed for passengers travelling from 14 - 21 January 2012 ( before Tet holiday ) and from 26 January 2012 to 3 February 2012 ( after Tet holiday ). According to this plan , Dong Ha , Quang Tri – Hanoi route tickets can be purchased from 15 – 20 November , Hue – Saigon tickets 22 – 27 November , applied for both one way and return tickets before and after Tet holiday and the rest of tickets ( if available ) for sale between the 1st and 12th of December . Passengers booking though Saigon Railway website need to fill in the reservation form with their names and identity card or passport number . Each account can make one reservation for up to 4 people and the maximum number of tickets per reservation is 8 , including go and return journey .
Should you decide that bus transport is your prefered means of getting around during Tet you should be aware of the schedules , I would highly recommend you double check with the bus company before you book . The centre for managing public transport of the city has procured 120 buses with at least 30 seats on each bus for major coach stations of Mien Dong , and Mien Tay , and other inter-municipal bus stations .
On the 29th of Tet on February 7 , all chartered subsidised buses will stop delivering passengers at 12:00pm except for 4 bus lines , which are numbers 1 , 20 , 90 and 96 . Those buses will deliver the last batch of passengers at 5pm .
All chartered subsidised buses will be working from 8am to 5pm on the first day of the Lunar New Year on February 8 .
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