Regular

It is funny how many times this year I have stayed at the Excelsior in Hong Kong. All under certain circumstances from price wise to location to work-related.

When I checked in today, I was handed an envelope. The hotel is asking for my preference profile. Yikes. I have stayed one too many time. The preference form, I let iron-wife handled it. It was more for her than me. I am easy. Clean room with fast Internet access. Ha ha...

After registration, the receptionist handed me the keys and said "we have upgraded you to a harbour view room. The package includes breakfast for two daily." Cool. When I booked, it was only for one person b'fast.

In the elevator going up to our floor, we laughed how small the window will be to see the harbour. As we stepped inside the room, we were stunned. The room was twice the normal size of our usual experience of this hotel and we had a big window with a spectacular harbour view! Will take a movie tomorrow during day time. Just tried the new camera for the night view. Not bad.

All in all, so far this HK trip is "happy"!

We were pissed with the Shanghai air traffic control. It imposed flight timing without prior warning; it pretty much did whatever it felt like it. After the pilot made an announcement happily informed us of leaving shortly to 5 minutes later despaired saying delayed. We were mad. The plane was full and we were stuck in the middle two seats of a row of four seats. The kicker was the C0mM!es imposed a 10-minute per flight rule! Excuse me? And they want to make Shanghai as a big busy humming place? And they want to build this new airport terminal at Pudong as Terminal 3 because they expect more travelers? Right! BS! We were an hour late.