Crowne Plaza Hotel Beijing

... us and we were surprised that he was Indonesian and not Chinese.  Quickly into our van and off to the Hotel. We were staying at the Crowne Plaza Sun Palace Beijing.  We were in for a treat.  Ellen and Chettia shared a room and I to myself. ...

I arrived in China on March 14, 2007. I stayed at the Crowne Plaza on Wangfujing Avenue. It is a very good hotel and a good location. The next morning I took a flight to Jinan on Shandong Airlines. As seems typical for a Beijing airport, the flight was ...

... goods that they can't themselves afford to consume while the upper 1% spend a billion yuan at all the Gucci (four in Beijing), Louis Vuitton (three), and Chanel (two) boutiques.  After watching enough Gossip Girl, every Chinese is going to want his ...

... en route for a Park next to the Forbidden City - we got lost in a maze of narrow Hutongs - the traditional streets of Beijing.....as our only experience we had previously in China was Hong Kong were no one is friendly - we were pleasantly surprised by ...

Met our Guide Miao Na at the Airport. She gave us a break down of our visit to Beijing and took us to our hotel, where we passed out until the next ...

... .  I met up with a guy i work with, he has stranger sleep patterens then i do.  THANK GOD we have our own hotel rooms! My body is pretty messed up, traveling for 27 hrs, all daylight travel, not really sure what day it truely is.  oh ...

... not really prepared for what Beijing would offer us on this particular day. It started late as we slept like logs, babies, etc. The Crowne Plaza or as Joe likes to call it, The Crowne Royal…lacks in some service aspects but the beds are very comfy. ...

... . Back at the hotel we enjoyed the wine we'd saved from the flight, then went down to the lobby to enjoy the Crowne Plaza's welcome drink. We chose a glass of Chinese Chardonnay which we were surprised to find remarkably good. By now we decided we ...

...  for another quick 2 yuan ride back to our first station & the walk back to the Crowne Plaza. We were nearly back to the hotel when we spotted the Beijing Tan An Long Pharmacy. On the off-chance they stocked  Feng ...

I'm just posting pictures on this entry.  These 5-6 star hotels are really spoiling me.  I'm going to hate going back to Courtyard or Motel ...

... Yeah, I saw how this works in practice.     2.  Chairman Mao is the Big Brother of Beijing. He is watching. Always.   3.  Westerners are vulnerable targets of Chinese line-jumpers. 4.  The number ...

... room until it was time to board the flight. We had exit rows … very nice. Slept a bit. It was after midnight when we arrived in Singapore. We passed quickly throw I&C, then went directly to the Changi Crowne Plaza Hotel to curl up into ...

... of China that my credit card was being rejected and then a meeting with a manager of HSBC on the 8th Floor of the Crowne Plaza Hotel, I managed to get a cash advance on my credit card. So, having dealt with this dilemma, which would have had me eating ...

... hour, and the beeping and buzzing of hundreds of the same toy was eerie. Our flight into Beijing was thankfully uneventful. We’re staying at the Crowne Royal here in the country’s capital, and our location is great for sightseeing: close to ...

... the three of us and another couple both from San Jose. We stayed at the Crown Plaza on the outskirts of Beijing. Less than a year old, the hotel is equipped with state-of-the-art equipment and new furnishings. The rooms we stayed in were amazing. Upon ...

... the shopping area outside our hotel. The location of the hotel was superb as it was at the end of the main shopping road in Beijing. Chris bought a couple of t-shirts but I was good. Traffic is a nightmare in Beijing and even when the man says "walk" that ...

... ;s the "English" name his professor gave him in college) and waited for the fun to start.  We rolled out into Beijing traffic around 7:30am.  There is an absurd amount of new construction happening.  Ginseng joked that the national bird of ...