Suzhou Inns - Comments and Reviews

As most of you probably know, Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) falls a month or so later than ours. This year, the Year of the Ox started on Jan 26th. Although this is technically my second Chinese New Year in China, I was a tourist last year and didn't really take part in the celebrations. Aside from this, I was in Hong Kong and Macau which h...

3/30/08 We flew on China Eastern Airlines to Shanghai and was met by our tour guide, Lily. Her home town is Suzhou so she will be our tour guide for the remainder of the trip. Suzhou is reknown for its silk factory, which we will tour. The silk culture is 4000 years old. Embroidery is also a main artisty. Suzhou is 2500 years old and has an olde...

Our "minibus" was waiting for us outside the hotel this morning, only it was in the form of 2 vans. I checked my e-mails as the group gathered and whilst a man watched me check my e-mails. The renovations of the hotel continued, with the men lifting the cement bucket by bucket, using a rope, which they would pull up the side of the building alon...