Here is the email I received this morning, just ten hours after my post last night:
Dear Sir/Madam,
Since you are traveling during National Congress period, the trains from Beijing to Xi'an are all reserved for government use only.The tickets may only opens for sale to public 1 to 5 days in advance. Would you like to wait for the opening or cancel the booking now?Would you like to make flight booking as alternative plan? I am looking forward to your reply as soon as possible.best regards,Alex Ren & Yongmei Chens
Options:
1) Pay through nose for plane tickets with possibility of not seeing the terracota warriors (all those delegates are in Xian for a reason, right?)
2) Wait to see if we get tickets to Xian the day before we are supposed to leave...risk not getting them, and if we can't then risk the strong possibility of not being able to book softsleeper out of Beijing to get to ChaoHu (Zoe's hometown): this is the worst case, house of cards theory.
3) Cancel trip to Xian altogether. Scramble this am to cancel hotel booking in Xian, Train tickets from Xian to ChaoHu, extend hotel reservation in Beijing, look into side trip to Changde....
We've chosen option three. So much for packing today! I have to pull the trip back together.
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