An evening at the Yuyao Business Hotel

The Yuyao Business Hotel is a small 4 story hotel. I have a feeling we are the first group of Americans who have ever stayed here! No English is spoken or understood by anyone at this hotel. That said, if you need something, you have to point and then they do their best to accomodate.

I've been trying to find a channel on the tv that I can understand. After punching every button on the remote covered with Chinese characters, I gave up... intuition was not successful. Opening the door, one of the housekeepers was having a cigarette in the room next door. I motioned for her to come with me. She and her friend came into the room and started punching buttons and found some Chinese movies. I said English please, but they, of course, didn't understand. I said, "Don't worry". I figured I'd ask Dave down the hall who said his TV worked. Well, the two women and another man all followed me to Dave's room. I told him I needed help with the remote. "Come on in"... I was followed by my retinue who proceeded to fiddle around with his TV which at that moment wasn't working. Poor Dave had been happy reading his book! I decided to go back to my room as now the attention was on Dave's TV. The next thing I saw, a different TV was being hauled into Dave's room... it was hysterical...
I only wanted help working the channels and now Dave was getting a different TV!

The moral of the story??? Don't watch TV in China!

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Location:Yuyao, Sunday July 15