Round the World Tour 2012 Part5 - China


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Briefing

CDG Acces No1

This travel starts from Canada. Please have a look at Part1 section if you haven't.

Although I had excess baggage allowance of additional 20kg, the Air China staff member was so rude that they tried to charge me additional fees at the check in for CA934. There were the Chinese TV crews with loads of luggage next to me, but their excess seems to be treated free because the staff member was given their name card. Maybe they tried to charge me instead of TV crews? Hmm...There was a priority lane at Paris CDG airport immigration called Acces No1, but the Chinese passenger without the invitation was queuing... Hey, what is going on!?

Day.9 Air China and Beijing (17th June)

Dinner on Air China

Being as a very frequent flyer, most of the airliners usually offer a front seat, but not on Air China. Since my seat was at the very end, there was no choice with the variety of the dinner. But well, that was fine because the food was good... Of course, the food is French made :)

Lunch on Air China

The aircraft of the Air China was quite decent, but they have disabled the flight map function on the seat TV, what is it for??? Well, I heard the story that they rarely land on a rural airport to pull off passengers, so guess they don't want passengers to know the location... Very scary :S

Arriving Beijing Airport

As you can see, the flight was fully packed!

Fountain at Beijing Airport

Even if you are just on transit, you must go through the immigration. Beaware that you might need a visa, so make sure to check with your government before the trip. The immigration staff was working very rude and slowly, and one angerman shouted to be hurry... The rude staff called a security to take him to a separate room. Meanwhile, the staff became even rude that she stopped working. The queue became much longer :(

Business Class Lounge

The business class lounge at Beijing airport. Very excited, but too little time left before the next flight.

Seatings in the Lounge

The lounge is in an open air style but it looked quite crowded.

Buffet at the Lounge

As I was expecting, there was a dim sum buffet in the lounge! Yummy :P

Air China Economy Cabin

Rushing to the boarding gate, I managed to catch the flight, CA167. This aircraft was the ordinary aircraft with no personal TV. Boring :(

Chinese Inflight Meal

The meal was soooo terrible. I'm worried about what kind of chemicals they use to make the food.

Tokyo Disney Resort

I was so lucky that there was no life threatening event occured during my journey. Instead, I've mistakenly posted my suite case with the house keys in. Good, I got to stay at Disney resort tonight :)

Tokyo Bay from Sheraton

Instead of going to Disneyland, I headed to the work.

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