Grand Dalian
No.1 Jiefang Street, Zhongshan District Dalian, Liaoning, 116001, China
TravelPod Member ReviewsGrand Dalian
“Alright, if you like that sort of thing”
jcbarna 6 contributions
United States
Dec 25, 2010
Not used to Chinese hotel room layout; food not very good.
This review is the subjective opinion of a TravelPod member and not of TravelPod.com.
Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Stayed at this HotelGrand Dalian
Brrr!
As our flight descends towards Dalian, I am impressed by the amount of lighting where there are "attractions" in the city. The port also looks to be a central part of the city's operations (I'm guessing that there's some trade with nearby North Korea). We land and manage to grab our luggage, only to meet that wonderful weather as we go outside to …
Cold walks and warm music
After what seemed like a short sleep (with intermittent honking on the streets below), it's time to get up and check out the town. Breakfast entrees I try include rice porridge, pork dumplings and mango juice (no píjiǔ offered). After bundling in long johns, thermal shirt, sweater, jacket, thermal cap, gloves and scarf, I join clarinetist Mary …
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Mangled
... a local anesthesia. Once I got it, I relaxed - surgery took about 1-1/2 hours. I went home and began my 2 week codeine trip (very unpleasant), somehow managed to get the rest of my classes taught (god bless the McPhee work ethic that can keep me going through anything) and essentially slept. Merry freakin' christmas.
I had to go to the hospital every 3 days and have the thing rewrapped. They put me in this HUGE white bandage around my finger and I ...
Christmas in China!
... to the boys side to secretly hold hands with their boyfriends.
Now, if you combine those two awesome christmas conerts with 2 Christmas staff dinners a Christmas morning brunch with close friends and my apartment, and then a catered traditional Turkey Dinner on Christmas Day with my neighbours, then you must get the idea of how awesome my holiday was. Don't get me wrong, I was skyping home and trying to talk with my family on the phone all ...
Stürmische Zeiten
... o.ä. ) in dem Gebäude, weder die Mädels am Infodesk, noch der Portier (der ausgesprochen freundlich und hilfsbereit war), noch das Mädel, das im Foyer wartete, wissen ob es solch eine Institution hier in der Gegend überhaupt gibt (wahrscheinlich nicht teuer genug …); gehe den Weg wieder zurück am Hotel vorbei Richtung Friendship-Kaufhaus, dort sollte es neben unzähligen anderen westlichen Marken doch auch einen Starbucks ...


