AA has a reputation, but as a *A guy I hang my hat in the UA fora (until the merge when there will only be one).

In the end after looking at a map decided to follow GinFizz directions. Almost perfect - Zhangwang Hutong is actually second hutong, but I did find it easy enough.

Interestingly, there is a hotel EXACTLY 150 paces before of my hotel, so I stopped and showed the guy at the front desk a translation from PEK tourist info desk (stopped there to have hotel address written in Mandarin), and he just shook his head. So just kept walking, and in a couple of minutes the hotel was there.

Walked around a bit, got some great dumplings and bought Tsingtao to take back to the hotel. Man, 8 Yuan for two large bottles ^

With it getting very cold overnight not sure how much sightseeing I'll do tomorrow, especialy since I need to leave for the airport by 11 a.m.

Thanks one more time to all that helped - you saved me from a boring experience at Holiday Inn Express.

OTOH, saw far more foreigners here than walking around in south Beijing.

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