Prime Hotel Beijing

... was great after so much walking. The last full day we were on our own again.  We had a nice breakfast at the nearby Prime Hotel (much better though more expensive than that at our hotel).  We got a cab who would take us out to the Summer ...

... ; I would have gone to either, or both.  However, majority ruled, so we opted for an American style sandwich at the Prime Hotel where we were spending the night.  We enjoyed having a large living space, but the bathtub was the best part. ...

... of the statues of the gods that have sexual poses were covered up with cloths. I was wondering whether John Ashcroft had gotten a job in Beijing. That 55-foot Maitreya Buddha in the last hall of the temple was as crazy as I remember it. I have never seen ...

Hello everyone! I have arrived in Beijing safely though quite tired and jetlagged. I am staying at the Beijing Hotel which is the site of one of the oldest hotels in Beijing and is actually 5 buildings of varying age joined together into one enormous ...

... a tempered mood, which took a lengthy bus ride to recover from.  Before beginning our day’s adventure in Beijing, we stopped at a breakfast place appropriately named Gruel.  It started off promising with some fried break and Baitzu, but ...

... main central district roads.  This is all compounded be the fact that there is some Asian/European summit going on in Beijing.  So in typical Chinese fashion, the government just shuts off streets, closes freeway off ramps and reduces the number ...

... to start the day. Before my departure from the U.S. I booked my planned tours through Gray Line tours for Beijing (http://www.graylinebeijing.com/Index.aspx) and Shanghai (http://www.graylineshanghai.com/Index.aspx). Just before 8am I was ...

... cab driver was looking really bemused..then Unker realised she was showing everybody her Hong Kong hotel card..thats like 400km or something ridiculous..away from Beijing..we did laugh! He meanwhile probably thought..stupid tourists! We went to the Great ...

... for assistance from the audience, he more belonged into a variety show than on stage that, as I still hoped, would feature Beijing opera. Except that it was increasingly precisely that - just a variety show. Once this realisation started dawning on me ...

... . I have checked my e-mail once and there were hundreds of stupid spam, so I am just ignoring it until I get home. The hotel in Beijing is charging me 9.00 dollars an hour, so I have to type fast! Last night while I was busy typing there was an ...

... tops when they roll up their shirts to show the full glory of their bellies. Britney Spears even in her prime could not come close to them. (7) Beijing being like one big construction site, a lot of it because of them getting ready for Olympics ...

... to a heartbreaking story by the lady vendor of how the price of twenty yuan for a hat didn't even begin to cover her expenses in Beijing and train fare to and from wherever she was. I guess if I had been left to fend off her cardiologic rhetoric all by ...

... street where there was western breakfast also not only Chinese. Our way lead us next to this Posh hotel called Prime Hotel a five star hotel in the middle of Beijing, as we walk by there is a young gentleman in front of the hotel by the footpath doing ...

... is then folded up into a plastic bag on a plate. It’s fairly bland but the jasmine tea is delicious.  Back in Beijing, we are dropped off at the Pearl Market in the South of the City.  Andrew wants to buy his sisters designer hand bags ...

... before exploring further. As it happened, the car we got in was the same one used by John Major in 1991 when he was Prime Minister, see the exciting accompanying picture. We then walked to the tower called the 23rd tower, which was very high up on a ...

... hotel rooms had been booked for the Games, which end on Aug. 24. Wang Rui, a saleswoman at the five-star Yuyang Hotel in downtown Beijing, said on Friday that between 40 and 50 percent of the hotel's rooms had been booked for the Olympics, a rate that ...

... read up before I got there but had no idea that it was such a modern and cosmopolitan city, maybe more modernised than Beijing.  There is everything from Gucci to the porrest of markets, ancient drum towers and newly built stadiums, it's ...

... was “just south” of there. “Just south” involved an hour long walk to a small booth behind the Beijing Exhibition Center. We bought our tickets and waited. It was nearing 3:00 already and my stomach had a grumbly odd feeling. We ...

... They supplied us with a little map and told us of a few spots just down the street. We wandered out into the streets of Beijing, remarking about how safe we felt in our little neighbourhood – hard to imagine we’re in a city of 14 million ...

... Chinas policy. Her daughter visits her every Friday and they have diner as a family. Then it was back to the hotel for a quick diner before heading out to the Beijing Opera. This is not what we know as opera, but rather a story set to music that could ...