Wednesday, September 17, 2008

What does "It may not be the reason behind," mean?

Shit, I have like this mountain of manuscript to look over and the deadline is 5 pm today if I didn't hear it wrong. That's only a little less than an hour from now. Mission impossible. I hope she said 5pm tomorrow.


Daze and Confuse

Accommodation

For the first night we stayed at a Vegas-size hotel only 7 minutes away from the airport. The room was large and luxurious-looking; it was a double room with two double beds. The only disappointment was the lack of bathtub. Otherwise, everything was fine.

The second night we were told early that there would be a downgrade to our accommodation away from the city of Xiamen but still the hotel was suppose to be best in town. I didn’t have high expectation compare to the first night but couldn’t be more disappointed with the supposedly 3 stars motel that we stayed at. To me, it was 1 star, 1 and half star at most. Why? There was no cable TV, the shower was basically a showerhead and an electric boiler and that’s it. It provided used slipper, dirty towels, strange shampoo and bathing liquid (I actually used them) with color coming off the lid. I found my right hand covered with blue and wondered what caused it and then realized it was from the shampoo lid.

You shower next to the toilet basically. I have been to rooms like this and they are not hotel or even motel room. The ones I have been to cost from RMB 40-80 (US$5-10) per night. And those were more like hostel room. They are actually pretty good deal, but the tour said 3 star or equivalent, and the one we stayed at was not 3 star. At most 2 star as said by my fellow tour buddies. It probably only qualified to be a 2 star because it provided soap, shampoo and towels.

The worst thing was that our rooms were on a hill and we had to carry our luggage up the stairs and climb the hill, pulling our suitcases. It was at the end of the day when we arrived, so we were all a bit worn out already and the shock of climbing hill and stairs with our luggage just…didn’t cut it. But I guess at least there was no rate at the room like the one at

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