Originally Posted by
kb1992
Thanks for both replies. Good to know 外卖 is OK. I am a big fan of 大众点评 as its former CEO is a good friend who left for 猫眼
They merged with
美团 and the current name is 美团网.
moondog you mentioned your boss asked for it and got it. Did the boss enter at PVG?
Yes, and he asked upon arrival. Since he's not "one of us", I didn't press him too hard for details. He was able to pick a pretty nice hotel near his house, and they actually set him free on day 2 (upon receiving his test results), but his health code remained red until day 14, which effectively limited him to his own compound. He arrived in late March. I arrived in late February, and was permitted to go straight home from the airport, but was also awarded a red health code. My guards allowed me to leave my compound. I just couldn't enter any establishments that were scanning health codes. My friends who arrived in April, May, and June (1 per month) all had to stay in their hotel rooms for the entire 14 days, but 2 of the 3 didn't have Shanghai 户口.
Finally, 50K CNY one-way ticket in coach is way too much. My outbound J award JFK-ZRH-PVG on LX costs 88K miles. My return is 35K miles saver Y award on United, PVG-SFO-BOS, waitlisted for upgrade with pretty good chance of clearing (only 9/60 booked).
My Chinese friends are extremely risk averse, and were only interested in nonstop flights.