Big group of us (inc kids) are planning an overnight train trip from Shenzhen to Guilin but we are having total nightmares getting the tickets.
We first approached China Travel Service but they only had a small allocation of tickets and said that to get more, we would have to go to Shenzhen ourselves to get the tickets.
There are no tickets for sale online. Also no telephone number to call to check that tickets are actually on sale yet!!!
Apparently, some tickets are only on sale between 4-10 days before travel!
We are planning actually to travel up abd buy the tickets ourselves but are worried they won't even be on sale yet.
We found a couple of agents in China who would get us the train tickets so that we would pay 240 USD + for a taxi service the other end AND they would only give us the tickets on the day of travel IN Shenzhen - we are terrified that at this stage they will hold us to ransom and make us pay for the tickets ++++
Anyone have experience, advice, help?
Anyone know someone/agent who would do the Shenzhen run for us at a small premium?