Originally Posted by
les37b
If I apply with confirmed booking s for flight and hotel plans, am I allowed to change them? I can easily provide an 11 day confirmed hotel booking - (as it can be cancelled FOC up until the day before) but ultimately my reason for doing this, would involve a bullet train to Beijing and 3 nights there. I can’t provide a train ticket confirmation just yet as it’s too early to book it seems. I’m not obviously trying to claim to be in one place and then another and would happily show the full details once I’m able to book. Am I allowed to change plans from what I’ve said I will be doing? This is a bit of a catch 22 for me for so many reasons on whether to get a visa or TWOV and travel plans I need to get booked. I suspect change of plans is common, but I don’t want to get into bother if this may be seen as deceipt.
It's been several years since I've been there, but you can always change your mind or the situation could change (eg, you book a hotel, that hotel for some reason overbooked so has to walk you to a sister-branch in a nearby neighbourhood). That said, when you go to a hotel in China, most hotels will make a copy of your passport and register you with the local police so you're still tracked.