Chinese Hotels

hotel room in Beijing After living for one year in a japanese student home it seems like any room that can contain more than a bed and a table feels huge to me. With that in the back of my mind the hotel room I have here is still big. I live on the twenty first floor, one entire wall is a huge window and the bathroom wall facing the room is also made of glass. I can very well understand why this hotel has ratings describing it as perfect for lovers. I mean here I could lie on my bed and watch the sunset on my right or a beautiful girl shower to my left — at the same time — how cool is this?

The huge flat screen TV, the provided computer and the broadband internet1 connection are a nice bonus. I guess just in case the stunning girl you share the room with is not enough, or you missed the sunset and are getting bored.

One problem for me is, that currently there is no beautiful girl in my room that I could admire while she takes a shower and the beauty of the sunset is slightly dampened by the air pollution, that makes the sun vanish, before it can reach the horizon. Luckily if there is a problem as serve as this there will almost always be a solution near by.

For example yesterday, while enjoying my time on Skype I got a phone call — at 23:00 local time. I’m not really supposed to get phone calls here in Beijing on my hotel number. Only very few people know which hotel I stay at and I told nobody the room number. Maybe they have a problem with my credit card — it would not be the first time here in Asia — so I go and pick up the phone.

Yes
Ah … Hello English?
Yes how can I help you?
Massagi?

It’s the middle of the night and someone calls me to ask if I want a massage? Nice service from the hotel.

Oh wait it’s the middle of the night, I get a call on my hotel phone and a girl asks me if I want a massage — no thanks. I guess it would be kind of hard to explain to the girl I’m skyping with.

Well such is life — full of suboptimally timed events.

So today I get home from a shopping spree2 at 16:00. Tired from walking around all day and not finding nice cheap shoes in my size I just want to take a relaxing hot shower and rest for an hour or two, but my keycard for the room does not work. I roll my eyes, take the elevator down again, they repair my card, but just in case send someone up with me to check everything is alright.

She rings the doorbell to make sure she will not be intruding, opens the door for me and

Where do you come from?
Austria — Europe Austria
Want a massage?


  1. notoriously monitored, annoyingly flaky and heavily restricted 

  2. It seems like shoes in Beijing fit the category “cheap, good looking, available in my size - pick two” 


3 Responses to Chinese Hotels

  1. 602 Günter 2009-10-06 18:00

    Servus du Zigeuner!
    Alles gut bei dir? Massage?

    G!

  2. 603 alexander 2009-10-09 10:12

    Jup bin glücklich zurück und voll im Ankommensstress.

    Ich glaube die @paulsen mail ist zur Zeit sogar überlastet :P

    Bist du noch in Graz? Kommst du auch einmal nach Wien, dann könnten wir ja auf ein Bier gehen :D

  3. 601 Visitor 2009-10-15 17:59

    Und, culture shock reversed?

    Kannst du ohne Nudelsuppe noch leben? Hast du das Essen mit Messer und Gabel völlig verlernt? Ist dein Leben ohne japanische Frauen freudlos? Verlässt du jedes österreichische Geschäft sobald du es betreten hast, weil dich angesichts des Verkäufers die Depression befällt? (Kein irashaimase mehr - im schlimmsten Fall nur ein huldvoll duldender Blick…) Hat deine Familie in der Wohnung wieder mal eine Wand oder Teile des Bodens abgetragen?

    Tja, Life is hard aber trotzdem Welcome back…
    und wann gehts wieder zurück nach Tokyo? :p



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