When embarking on an international trip, there are a number of things that are organized, including passports, luggage, airline tickets, hotel reservations and arranging for someone to have to feed the cat. Not least, this article is the visa. When traveling to a country where a visa is required then you must be absolutely sure that you get the right information, obtain the correct visa. Allow me an experience of a warning.
In August, my wife and Iwere happy planning a trip to South Korea, where our daughter lives, and we decided to first go to Beijing for about 9 days and then fly to Korea. We had been in Beijing and liked it very much and thought it would be a good opportunity to visit it again. I looked online for the best airline deals for the outward and return flights between Melbourne, Australia, and Beijing. By coincidence, this was the cheapest flight with Korean Air, so I will book the ticketswe had from Melbourne to Beijing, with a brief stopover in Seoul on 5. September, and then fly from Beijing to Melbourne, Seoul, on another short stop) (on the 28th. September. Ideally, we would extend in a position to one of these stopovers in Korea over a period of a few weeks, we would have re-arranged the flights so that we do not need more flights between Beijing and Seoul book but we were not allowed to do under theConditions for the ticketing arrangement without it costs a lot more money, so we had a reservation with China Southern Airlines from Beijing to Seoul to make us get on the 14th. September and then back to Beijing on the 28th. September in time to catch our flight back to Seoul with Korean Air and Melbourne.
If you are following this so far you are doing well. In conclusion, what we had at the 28th to do. September to the home was to fly from Seoul to Beijing with China SouthernAirlines, so we catch our flight with Korean Air have just returned from Beijing to Seoul from where we get our connecting flight to Melbourne. It was not simply an option, not to get back on the flight from Seoul to Beijing, and instead only catch directly to the Korean Air flight back to Melbourne, because if we did not board our Korean Air flight to Beijing, our whole trip to be canceled .
So you have it. I was pleased with me,with all the tickets booked online, and managed to come in, that the cheapest option. The next thing to do was to contact the Chinese Embassy in Australia to make sure I applied for the appropriate visa in the circumstances. Did we need one Visa or double visa because of the fact that we flew into Beijing airport a second time to familiarize yourself with our Korean Air flight? I dutifully rang at the Chinese consulate in Melbourne and make our upcoming trip route toLord, to declare that we would not leave the airport and were to catch our flight to Melbourne via Seoul slightly more than 4 hours after arrival at Beijing airport. He assured me that if we do not leave the airport, and if we just stay for that amount of time, then we would not need to be double-entry visas. My mistake was that I was his word for it. I thought it was assumed that I was given the correct visa information from the people who are the subject ofVisa.
We continued our journey and once again enjoyed all that has to offer the great city of Beijing, and we went to Korea and had to make up a good few weeks with our daughter and son-in-law before it goes to the times. On 28. We presented ourselves to the check-in for our flight to Beijing. I handed our passports and after many discussions in various languages, has informed us that we could not even fly to Beijing. The guards were as helpful as they could be,immigration, and even in Beijing, rang the bell that do not have good news for us. When we flew into Beijing, we had our visas to be topical. It did not matter that we do not leave the airport, and we were only there for 4 hours and 20 minutes. It did not matter that we have received from the Chinese Consulate in Melbourne, that we do not need a visa for that. It was important that we do not have visas, and that was it.
We were told that we have two possibilities: either forVisa or rearrange our ticketing at the Korean Air flight back to Australia. Applying for visas hardly seemed an option to all the time. We had been waiting for approval and would have to arrange our flight to Melbourne rebook and other accommodations in Seoul. It was all too much. We just wanted to go home and I had visions of the fact that stranded at Incheon Airport in Korea for the rest of my life! The second option was to change our ticketingArrangements so that they no longer Beijing to Melbourne tickets, but simply Seoul to Melbourne Tickets. So we took the second option. Now, these things do not come cheap. It cost us a whopping $ 780 EACH for the privilege of re-purchase the same seats on the same flight that we already paid. This is an additional $ 1560!
I've been promising since I got home, I complained to the Chinese Consulate in Melbourne, but I do not like brick wallsand have not had time to get it on. But I will. In the meantime, I think it was as a valuable experience. I will never be such advice in the face again in value. I will check and double-checking and, if necessary, triple check.
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