Introduction: Visiting Pandas In China

Review: Panda Volunteer Program At Dujiangyan Base
Review: Xiamen Airport Domestic Lounge
Review: Xiamen Air Business Class 737 Chengdu To Xiamen

Is the "Xiamen Airport Domestic Lounge" installment meant to be titled "Chengdu Airport Domestic Lounge"?

In addition, the last installment should be more like "Review: Xiamen Air 787-9 Business Class Xiamen to Los Angeles" instead of "Review: Xiamen Air 787-9 Business Class Los Angeles To Xiamen"

Looking forward for the St. Regis review.

Could have tried the New Conrad in Xiamen.

Next time stay in Conrad in Xiamen, I've stayed there one night for transit between Melbourne and Shanghai. The suite (upgraded), service and status recognition was over the top, and it's only AU$230 ($180) per night.

Okay, now we know which hotel it is that hard sold their full spa service...

Why go through all these trouble when there is a direct flight from SFO to CTU on United? And it's also on B787. same thing

It's high time Xiamen Air got a tag of its own: such a professional airline ought not to be classed under 'other airlines'.

@seguei, for the sake of reviews perhaps?

@Serguei***

Lol, I can’t spell your name right. Shame on me! @Sergei

Love how there's a review of the Panda base included in this series! Looking forward to it.

Sergei

Perhaps because it was a) a cheap fare and b) reviewing different airlines is what he does

@Sergei Because both the hard product and soft product is different between the airlines. On the 789, XiamenAir has reverse herringbone seats in a 1-2-1 configuration whereas United has 2-2-2 BE Aerospace Diamond seats. Additionally, someone loyal to SkyTeam would choose Xiamen over United

@Herbertgzb
LOL
I bet it was the Le Meridien Xiamen. "full "spa service is especially popular there.

@Lucky - you should do another contest for your viewers (If you can). 🙂

so aside from doing status match, what is the best to credit this to. i've looked at the wheretocredit.com link and still having trouble with strategy. Korean since they are transferrable with all credit card currencies? Flying Blue is devaluing...

domestically speaking
xiamen> shenzhen> hainan>>>>> the rest

Disappointed you guys didn’t stay in the Conrad in Xiamen. It is truly stunning, and this comes from somebody who has stayed in most Park Hyatt’s in Asia. Sometimes you just have to let go of your primary program(s), especially given how cheap the Conrad is using points and cash - though I’m guessing it was affected by massive Hilton devaluation of points and cash bookings.

"Along with Hainan, I continue to think that Xiamen is one of China’s best airlines."

I disagree. I continue to think that along with Hainan, Xiamen is (merely) one of MAINLAND China's best airline. If we do not restrict ourselves to the mainland, but consider the whole of China instead, EVA Air (based in Taipei, China) and Cathay Pacific (based in Hong Kong, China) are two of China's best airlines, surpassing both Hainan and Xiamen Air.

Surely you will exclude Hawaiian Airlines and Alaska Airlines when considering CONTIGUOUS United States' best airlines, but will include them both when considering the whole of United States' best airlines. No?

I really can not understand how a person who spit bad words in the back about a country could want to pay a visit to that country and even put this on a blog.

There are several phrases I can think of: professional, money talks, soft bone or schizophrenia

@john lol nah fam. don't you have a party conference to be getting ready for?

@Alvin Tse - perhaps you should start your own blog?

Nice experience.

Lmao 'full' spa service...
In China we call it 'da bao jian' （大保健）, literally speaking 'grand healthcare'. Actually, I just don't know whether there is indeed such kind of service provided, but in terms of Xiamen's regulation I don't think this kind of practices should exist

i really like the way chinese hotels make the bed without tucking the sheets