Must be really strict about those HSR ticket purchase rules in Beijing.
No advance purchase ability, even from the most expensive hotels in the city.

China World Hotel

You want train tickets...you got to go get yourself at the station.

BJ RC

Give us your passport or a copy of it, we charge you 30-40RMB roundtrip
taxi fare, no extra surgcharge, as
we have to send somebody to the station get tickets.