VietNamNet Bridge – The Saigon railway station began selling train tickets for the upcoming lunar New Year holiday on the Internet on November 15 but many people were very angry because they couldn’t book tickets online.

The website of the Saigon Railway Station.

Many passengers created accounts on November 14 but when the website officially opened at 8am, November 15, many people were very disappointed because they couldn’t book the tickets.

They told VietNamNet that they didn’t have access to the website.

A woman in Tan Phu district, HCM City said she wanted to book two tickets from HCM City to Binh Dinh for Tet but she couldn’t visit the website, even though she created an account the night before.

An office employee in Thu Duc district, HCM City, complained with VietNamNet that she had to get up at 3: am to make an account to prepare for booking tickets but she failed to access the website in the morning of November 15. “When I visited the site at noon, it was out of tickets,” she said.

The Saigon Railway Station said that the total tickets for the Tet holiday 2011 is around 100,000. Around 80,000 tickets will be sold online and 20,000 for groups that directly register at the station.

The station explained that its website was inaccessible because of the huge number of visitors trying to visit the site at the same time.

By 3pm, 15,280 passengers successfully booked their tickets, the station said.

However, at 5pm of November 15, the site was still inaccessible.

Many readers said that they were familiar with this situation when railways stations always claim they are of out of tickets and transmission lines jam while tickets are sold to the black market.

Thai Phuong