Hotel Name: Ramada Hong Kong Hotel Address: 308 Des Voeux Road West, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong [Note: The Ramada Hong Kong Hotel is now the Best Western Plus Hotel Hong Kong. This post is left as a historical archive.] I stayed at the Ramada Hong Kong Hotel on Hong Kong Island. I booked this […]
The first meal I will eat when I get back is…
“What’s the first thing you are going to eat when you get back?” I asked Dan while we waited for our flight to Hanoi. “Fried eel soup.” Dan said this without missing a beat. He said it like he had already thought of this, and I asked him because I knew he would be the […]
Hotel Review: Radisson Blu Hotel Pudong Century Park, Shanghai – China
Hotel Name: Radisson Blu Hotel Pudong Century Park. Address: 1199 Ying Chun Road, Pudong – New Int’l Expo Center, Shanghai, China. [Radisson Blu Hotel Pudong Century Park, Shanghai – China] I stayed at the Radisson Blu Hotel Pudong Century Park. I had been to Shanghai a few times before but I had never stayed on […]
Notes on Shanghai: revisiting an old favourite
I was last in Shanghai three years ago and I spent about a month in the city. When I came here in 2010 I was actually considering moving to Shanghai – that is how much I liked it. As it turned out I could only get a tourist visa that required leaving the country every […]
Hotel Review: Radisson Blu Plaza Chongqing, China (the best view in Chongqing)
Hotel Name: Radisson Blu Plaza Chongqing. Address: No.22 Nanbin Road, Nan’an, Chongqing, China. [Radisson BLU on the Yangtze – Chongqing.] I stayed at the Radisson Blu Plaza Chongqing as a guest of Club Carlson, who I was working with on their Global Travelers campaign. The hotel is on the south bank of the Yangtze River […]
Notes on Chongqing: the megacity of Southwest China
I first visited Chongqing in 2010 where I made a stopover on my way from Xi’an to Chengdu, and I recall having to look it up to see where it was. Turns out that Chongqing is technically the largest city in China (if ranked by administrative area). [Chongqing – one enormous city!] Is Chongqing the […]
Macau – Las Vegas of the East
Macau has become the biggest gambling centre in the world, having overtaken Las Vegas in terms of gaming revenues in 2007. There aren’t as many entertainment options in Macau compared to Las Vegas (like the shows and theme parks), so it remains to be seen if Macau can become Rat Pack cool like Vegas. The […]
Gulangyu – a car-free island near Xiamen, China
In my travels around China I got to see the A-list cultural highlights such as the Forbidden City in Beijing, the Great Wall of China, the Terracotta Warriors, as well as seeing the wonderful Giant Pandas. What I found more surprising about China is the amount of unheralded goodness there is in this country. One […]
My plan for saving the endangered Giant Panda
As I made my way across China what I kept hearing the most was how good the pandas of Chengdu were. I was getting so many good reviews I had to investigate further. Chengdu has become famous for the Giant Panda Breeding Research Base, which is the most popular place to view pandas in China. […]
Shanghai Expo 2010: It’s a wonderful world, even without jetpacks and hovercars
I happened to be in Shanghai while the World Expo was on. I didn’t plan my travels around this event so it turned out to be a pleasant coincidence to be there at the same time. I entered with no expectations, and left feeling good about the world and its inhabitants. – China Pavilion at […]
