Journal - Arriving in China..

At leaving the airport, I found we were being huddled into a cab by the airport traffic control at asking them a simple question.
Not responding to my question of how much the cab was going to cost us as our luggage was being loaded into the trunk of the car. I had to shout "Stop" to catch his attention to let him know I wasn’t to be ignored. Immediately I found a man appeared from no where stating it would cost us 150RMB some huge drop to the initial 350-400RMB that we were quoted inside the airport!!!

We arrived at our hotel, was provided with our key card and no directions to where the lift was or verbally informed us of our room number.
At questioning she responded with 4th floor.
Absolutely exhausted at this point, hungry and sleepy - was looking fwd to just dropping our luggage into the room and heading for some food, to find when we arrived at our room, it was a twin - went down and she appeared to understand and gave us another key card. We checked out this room, and the next and the next to discover they were all twin rooms. And to our horror they didn’t have any double bed rooms in the hotel. Bizarre!! Apparently it’s the standard for China!
Quite clearly we cancelled our booking and checked in to the Holiday Inn, where as always our every need was catered for.
Of course this whole cancelling to stay with them process wasn’t the simplest, with no one at the hotel being able to speak English. The receptionist had a translator on speed dial who she kept calling and handing me the phone, not informing me of who I was about to speak to.

…..and little did we know that this was just the beginning. Welcome to China!!