My husband and I are hoping to travel to Tianjin in October for three days before boarding a cruise which travels to Japan and South Korea then back to Shanghai.We then go to Taiwan and back to Hong Kong.I am of the belief that we need a double entry visa as we don't need a visa for Hong Kong. Is this right? Also as the travel company want us to pay for our trip 2 days before we are able to obtain visas. We have had them agree to wait a short while but we would like to rush our visas through to avoid the loss of our trip. We live about 1 1/2 hours from Sydney and 2 hours from Canberra. Can we go to the embassy in Canberra and apply for a same day visa to avoid problems? Any advice would be much appreciated.