Short trip report - Beijing

[Good Bye Everyone !]

You're right about staying indoors in Beijing and i will most likely spend all day at a massage parlor sucking and humping away I think i'll be wearing those white mask when cruising outside like the kind of mask the Beijing city workers wear outside while they sweep the streets all fuckin' day in aweful humid weather and air pollution that's causing all these lung and throat cancer. I have a friend who drives to work in Beijing very early in the morning and he literally had to use the windshield wipers to clear the thick layer of coal dust that has been settling on his windshield and he also have to use his headlights and high beam while driving so he can see the road.....i thought L.A. morning traffic was bad.

 

[ANTHONY R]

It probably will, my relatives told me to try to stay indoors...

 

[Evelyn]

If the weather is not going to give me a hard time then i mostly likely think the fuckin' smog and the deep thick layer of coal dust in the air will fuckin' make me sick!

 

[Ninth Gate]

mostly sunny with highs in the 75-82 degree F, lows around 60 according to weather channel

 

[baymast13]

Are you still in Beijing? What's the weather like in BJ?

 

[livingdead]

Lol, thanks for the tip on traffic.

That hotel is almost $200/night, little steep for me, guess I'll have to find another one.

 

[Speak_4_the_TREES]

Thanks Socal, I post whenever I can, you never know what snippet might be ueful to someone.

I think I tipped security 20 RMB each, but as I said, this was after the girl had gone, so I didn't need to.

The rate in the hotel was......(looking for receipt....) 1250 RMB plus 188 RMB (some kind of tax or something) a night. It's not my favourite hotel in PEK, but it is pretty nice accept it doesn't have what I would call a decent bar....just a kind of lobby thing. It is in a shopping street and there is a shopping maul just up the road, a few hundred metres to the left out of the main entrance, that has plenty of restaurants with English menues (and even KFC and Pizza Hut I think for those that are tired of eating duck skin.....).

Two comments on Beijing for the first time traveller....firstly it has very very bad air pollution and it's getting worse (seems to me anyway). If you have breathing difficulties you might want to avoid staying there too long or stay inside the air-con hotels. I understand a lot of the pollution is due to coal fired power stations around the city, which means high levels of particulates and Sulphur Dioxide. But all the building work, the traffic and the geographical location make things worse. Rain or strong winds clear it up though and you can even see the sun on good day.

Secondly be very very careful crossing roads. Pedestrian signals ("green men" or "blue men" if you are Japanese) are completely ignored by buses, taxis and bicycles, and some private cars. The taxis get very agressive if you cross in front of them, even on a green man and the cyclists seem to live on another planet (how many die a day I have no clue.....they all seem to have a death wish....which is even worse after dark as none of them have any lights). Basically largest vehicle seemed to get right of way.....and as pedestrians are the smallest.....you get the picture.....

Cheers,

John.

 

[Hf unknown]

Awesome report, how much did you tip the security and how much was your hotel room/night?

 

[coral]

I just spent a few nights in Beijing and stayed at the Crowne Plaza hotel on Wangfujing Avenue. (There are two Crowne Plaza's in PEK).

Arrived from the airport at about midnight, and noticed that little Chinese girls in blue coats seemed to be all over the hotel....it turned out that they were from the hotel's 24 hr massage service.....and they were mostly cute. I didn't have massage, but a friend did, and he was not offered full service, just a hand job, but I guess that is up to the girl. After the first night I dodn't see them running around, but they were still all in the Health Club (9th floor).

One night we visited the Sanliton bar street....it had bars not suprisingly, most had bands in them, but most (but not all) were playing Chinese Pop....one bar had a decent Pinoy band in it. We were offered girls ("cheap") in at least one bar.....but cheap turned out to be 1000 RMB ST which isn't cheap at all.....There were also some very nice girls running around, but I didn't talk to any of them or ask if they were working. It was a Monday night and so pretty quiet. A colleague from my local office told me that the girls that usually worked in that street were undergraduate students trying to pay for their studies (or whatever). Go have a look if you are bored. One thing I found suprising, I think one of the bars was a gay bar......it had men pole-dancing (dressed...fortunately) and when we left we were asked if we wanted a ladyboy! Didn't sound like Beijing but you live and learn.

Anyway, Tuesday night headed for the Hard Rock, got there about 9.45 and had dinner. A few tables had people eating and lot's of single guys were sat by the bar.....I noticed a 70 RMB first drink cover charge if you didn't eat.....but at 10pm no girls.....at all......However......at 10.30 pm the lights went dim, and a couple of girls appeared.....by 10.45 the place was full of them. Many came up and pleaded to buy you a drink with their 70 RMB drink token (so they could get there money back....a large beer is about 60RMB). The quality was generally good, but there were a few scary looking older girls as well (they seemed to get in the bar first). I asked a few price and all started 1000 RMB short time, I didn't haggle as at that point I wasn't planning to buy one.

After a while, I noticed that there was a girl standing quietly beside me, I looked at her and realised she was lovely.....I asked her how much and she typed 600 ST 1200 LT into her 'phone...I said 1000 LT and she agreed. She didn't speak any English and I don't speak Chinese, but we managed to communicate somehow. I got a taxi back to the hotel and I walked in with her at 12.20 in the morning. The hotel staff mainly smiled.....she said she was 23, and she certainly wasn't any older than that. She had a perfect bod and even a very pleasant pair of natural breasts....rare in China!

Anyway, I realised that if she stayed all night I wouldn't get any sleep, so we agreed to do the deed twice and then she would go for 1000 RMB. I don't think she had been working very long, you can't fake the level of innocence she seemed to have....she was so sweet.....and she should have asked for more money! However, when she was about to go she got very animated and pleaded with me (in sign language) to take her downstairs and put her in a taxi. Which I did about 2 am....I don't know what she was scared of, but I guess the hotel staff may not have been as nice to her if she was on her own....I tipped security on the way back in....but I probably didn't need to.

Happy hunting!!

John.