Well, as you know, we received our TA on Tuesday and then yesterday we received the verbal confirmation for our consulate appointment in Guangzhou on April 28th. This gave us tentative travel dates for departing US on 4/13 to arrive in China 4/14 and then depart China on 4/30 to arrive in US same day.
However, the agency said that we should wait until we receive written confirmation of the consulate appointment before we book our flight. I had two travel agents working on itineraries and one came through with a decent priced flight, but we will be traveling for about 25 hours to get to China; Milwaukee to Chicago to Tokyo to Beijing - you do what you have to do, right???
He placed those tickets on hold for us while we waited for written confirmation. But then at about 2pm today he had not heard from us so he sent an email to let me know that if we do not purchase by 4pm PST that the prices would go up to $4000/each! This is because he needs to purchase with 3 business days advance notice.
In discussing with him we decided it best to buy the tickets; he said he's never seen the dates change from verbal to written confirmation, but warned us that it could happen (with our luck I'm not feeling all that great). He wanted to make sure we knew the risk of the penalty.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that we will get the written confirmation of the consulate appointment tomorrow and then all of this will be a distant memory.
Looking so forward to boarding that plane on Tuesday...
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