Off to China

How’s this for a travel day:  Get up at 4am (after being woken up at 2 am by mistaken wakeup call from hotel reception) for a flight at 5:45 am.  The first leg of my flight was from Surabaya to Jakarta, then catch a flight to Guangzhu China, then a third flight from there to Wuhan, China where I landed at 7 pm.  By the time I got to the hotel it was 8:30pm.  It was my first time to Guangzhu airport and I had to pass through immigration and then find the domestic flight to Wuhan.  They certainly could use some more signs to inform people where to go. I had to ask a number of people to find my way through an extremely large airport and I was given the wrong information three times before I found the right check in desk.   The business lounge I would rate at the low end of the scale for those who happen to find themselves passing through.  However the airport is very modern and very spacious (and huge).

The hotel is quite nice – with the painting below in the lobby (3 meters high) and the hotel room is excellent (even free internet).  In the morning, I can’t find the restaurant and have to ask again, only to be told it is on the 4^th floor.  I am later told by colleagues that the prostitutes are on the 5^th floor.  I am quite shocked that this is the norm in China for business men and that even top hotels organize this.