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Bibimbap in Nth China. Meal for two for under $10 AUD. Followed up with late night snack of Octopus on a stick and a sensational durian and cheese desert.

Attended the local police station today to register with the public security bureau. This is a requirement for aliens staying in a private residence. While completing the process the officer has a computer screen facing me asking to verify information as they type. In another only in China...

Arrived in Shenyang yesterday. Happy to report that my Airalo Asian eSim works well and allows access to all the websites I use. Went to dinner with friends. The main street of Shenyang very crowded as usual last night. Possibly 20% of people still wearing masks. There has been a lot of...

From my point of view it's mostly a build it and move on. New developments in most cases have garden areas with ponds and fountains for example. Almost every older development I have been in the gardens have not been well maintained and the ponds and fountains are not working. People only seem...

They reduced the speed of all high speed trains by 50kph after some sort of safety enquiry quite a while ago. I have travelled on that Beijing Tianjin train quite a few times and it initially was 350kph back in around 2010. The enquiry may have been after the Wenzhou accident in 2011 but I'm...

Are they weighing your bags at station entrances? There is a 20KG limit on high speed trains that was never enforced on our many previous trips. On our last few pre covid trips we were pulled up and were overweight. (luckily it was at our local station and Mrs Woodyren knew someone who knew...

Mrs Woodyren has been in China since we departed our Singapore cruises in June. We meet back in Singapore on Sunday for 24 nights of cruising to Japan and back. We will then head to China together for what will be my first post pandemic visit. I have been granted a three year multi entry visa...

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Our flight is a night flight so we chose the bulkhead seats 10D &10G. Any issues? I guess there is a chance that we get bumped if there are parents with babies requiring the basinet seats.

Just booked 2 x QFF award business class China Airlines tickets. YVR-TPE with a 5 day stopover and then TPE-ICN. May next year. Had a few of the previously mentioned issues with logging into the tickets on the CI website. Called Qantas and the customer service agent selected our requested seats...

Thanks GA. I called Flight Centre today who called Qantas on the number you suggested. The agent replied that Qantas will process the refund within 12-16 weeks after which FC will then refund me to the original form of payment. Seems like things are moving along now with Qantas and FC.

As an aside to this. What happens to the money that was paid IF a person fails to get a refund or use their flight credit on a booking made with a travel agent?

Just called Flight Centre about a Qantas credit for a flight that I booked with them. The customer service agent said that they are awaiting Qantas setting up a system that will allow them to process refunds. That seems to align with the information conveyed to the previous poster.

Mrs Woodyren is travelling to China in June but she will be travelling from Singapore. As far as I know at present people travelling from Singapore and many other countries currently require a supervised RAT test. This was reduced down from the more expensive and time consuming PCR recently. I...

Thanks for the updates. Mrs Woodyren is heading for Shenyang after we finish a few Singapore cruises in June. We will meet up together again in Singapore late July and spend 24 nights cruising to Tokyo and back before we both head back to China. It will be my first visit in almost 4 years. Mrs...

Then tell them to cancel but also to stay on the call till the cancellation goes through. That was when they "found" my offer. If still no offer get them to reinstate the card if you wish to retain it.

Qantas Ultimate card. AF due next week. Called and asked for an offer. The consultant said there are no offers and I had to decide whether I wish to cancel or not. I asked to be put through to the cancelation team and the consultant said that I that they could only connect me if I definitely...

Any airport is fine. We just wish to fly to Beijing. They were the only routing that came up. Whether you did a search direct SYD to Beijing in general or via Shanghai. We were just looking at options. The bookings will be for December and like you I suspect a lot more routings will open up.

I was checking out some first class reward ticket and J options today. Also looking at a few reviews and all in all it's good availability and very low taxes. The points required to Beijing are the same but it involves a connection from a flight arriving in PVG around 2000 and then an early...

Our two longest have been 47 days and 43 days on large mass market ships. Once settled in to the onboard routine we were certainly in no hurry to finally disembark.