Wow, if that's the same Friendship Hotel that I used to visit, it really brings back memories. It was the first port of call for every weekend visit to Beijing (kind of like Raffles in Singapore) - you'd meet every foreign visitor there, and at that time was one of the few places to buy English language newspapers and books, and it was a good "post restantee" for getting messages from travellers I've never known anyone who actually stayed there, but I've had many a Qingdao beer in the lounge! Do they still have the men's and ladies washrooms signs in the foyer with the exaggeratedly big noses?
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Date: 2006-07-25 04:01 pm (UTC)