Tickets and hotel rooms for Universal Beijing Resort went on sale at 12 a.m. Sept. 14, only to quickly sell out after the ticketing platform continually crashed due to overwhelming demand.
Within one minute, tickets for the resort’s Sept. 20 grand opening sold out on Ctrip. Meanwhile, Alibaba Group’s online travel booking platform Fliggy also reported that its official Universal Studios Beijing store had sold 100,000 tickets within half an hour. Shortly thereafter, tickets for not only its opening date but also dates within the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival holiday sold out across various ticketing platforms and tourist agencies authorized by the resort, while The Universal Studios Grand Hotel and NUO Resort Hotel quickly booked out.
There are four types of one-day tickets…