Greetings from the Royal Park Hotel at HND. My room is a bit on the small side, and I'm hungry because they had already stopped serving food by the time I checked in, but other than that,I'm pleased with the hotel.

I flew in on an MU a350 from PVG in Y, which was surprisingly great.

Immigration and customs at HND took a long time though...not because of lines, but because there was a shocking number or bureaucracies that almost made China immigration seem civilized by comparison.

I'm a little bit regretful of not sticking with my original AA flights from PVG to JAX because the schedule was super convenient, but now I have my JL flight in business class instead.

I'll opine later about whether or not the HND transit was worth the hassles, but I've always enjoyed JL in the past.

Business class on the AA itinerary would have set me back 450k miles (v 35k in economy). Obviously, 60k miles for JL is a more attractive deal, and there were lots of flights to choose from starting about 3 weeks in.

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