百佳园酒店

去那边之前发现梅州没有7天等连锁酒店，但后来朋友推荐了这间，订了的是特价房。后来入住的时候发现原来特价房是没有窗户的。除了这个，浴室是用玻璃隔开的，比较简陋。其他还行。凑合一晚住的话满推荐的

13 年前

“It’s Christmas Day in the morning”, I sang as SWMBO and I climbed on to a coach at 7:30 and headed north-east to the town of MeiZhou, the next day we’ll continue to YongDing county in FuJian province. We’re on a ¥400 each two-night holiday with our local travel company. On these holidays you visit many places that aren’t on TA. || ||Six hours later after a quick ‘comfort’ stop and then an hour for a Christmas lunch of chicken, potatoes, vegetables and baked rice. The food at the ‘motorway’ services is freshly cooked, rather good and cheap at around ¥30 for as much as you can eat. ||Then it was onto SongKou Village for an hour or so’s stroll. This is a wonderful old river-side village on the MeiJiang River. We admired the Chinese Immigrant (Emigrant would be more appropriate) Memorial Square where for three centuries thousands of workers departed to French territories. There’s an old customs house, and surprisingly a modern one but with no sign of recent activity. Down the quaint main street is the colonial style Hotel Tsung Kiang, a pity it’s closed as the atmosphere it exudes is amazing. One the landing opposite, the statues of the woman and child waving to the man with the suitcase is rather poignant. I wonder if a ¥20 ticket on the Memory of Song Jiang took him all the way to Shantou and a prosperous new life, you’ll have to visit to see the sign!||||Anyway, then it was back on the coach and another hour’s drive to Meizhou and the BaiJiaYuan (Interlock) Hotel for the night. The coach dropped us off about 100 metres from the door as parking is not permitted outside the hotel. All 55 of us, pulling or lugging cases then crocodiled up the motor-scooter lane as the pavement was packed with parked motor-scooters. MeiZhou like many Chinese towns is plagued by thousands of these noisy, smelly but essential contraptions each conveying at least two people.||||Booking in was chaotic but that’s expected with 20 odd rooms to be allocated and everybody wanting to be first, our guide and the desk staff both waved door cards and shouted names, so everybody was soon queuing for the single lift. SWMBO and I were on the eighth floor. SWMBO swiped the door key and opened the door, and surprise! There were no beds just a sofa. SWMBO wasn’t happy but being the adventurous sort, I went in and there was a bedroom, a huge bathroom and even a small kitchen off from what was the sitting room. Now, we felt we’d just won the lottery! We’d got a suite of rooms! Of course, SWMBO complained, as she always does. The room was far too noisy with the constant peeping of motor-scooters from the road far below. I told her not too look a gift horse in the mouth, and the noise would surely abate later after the rush-hour. Placated she began to check her WeiXin using the free WiFi.||||The rooms were all very nice and clean. One double bed and one large single bed but surprisingly no wardrobe but there were a few hangers on a hook on the wall behind the door. There were two cups and two glass in the sitting room along with the usual complimentary tea and a kettle, and the usual freebies in the bathroom. There were plenty of power-points scattered around.|| ||After refreshing cups of self-brought coffee and SWMBO had finished scribbling on WeiXin we decided to hit the town and partake of Christmas dinner. There’s no dining room in the hotel.||||From the hotel we turned left and came to the south gate of JiaYing University, obviously there’s plenty of student eateries but eventually we came to a nice-looking upmarket place (it had table cloths) but it was empty, not a good sign. However, it was the place where everybody the next morning else ate a hearty breakfast of noodles, vegetables, eggs and zhou (rice porridge) while I munched a baozi (steamed bun). Breakfasts were included in the holiday’s price and our travelling companions were intent on getting their money’s worth. ||||I wasn’t hungry because for Christmas dinner I’d indulged on honey-roasted pork, vegetables and rice, washed down with a can of beer the night before at one of the better student eateries. SWMBO managed a hearty breakfast even though she’s cleared a bowl of Chinese sausage, vegetables and rice for her Christmas dinner. At ¥37 for the pair of us, you can’t say we don’t push the boat out on special occasions.|| ||I’ve jumped ahead a night! ||||We went back to the hotel and sure enough the room was quiet, and we slept like logs. There was instant hot water for showers in the morning.|| ||At 7 o’clock an already bustling MeiZhou saw a coach load of travellers one again dragging and lugging cases along the scooter-way to the restaurant for breakfast, where amazingly the coach was parked. At eight o’clock we were off to visit the Temple of a Thousand Buddhas (TA reviewed), followed by the PanKeng Scenic Resort (TA reviewed) and finally the Co-op for a session of retail therapy before heading north-west for two hours to YongDing and a night at the Hakka (International) Hot Spring Resort (TA reviewed).

“早上就是圣诞节”，我唱着SWMBO的歌，7点30分登上长途汽车，向东北方向前往梅州镇，第二天继续前往福建省永定县。我们与当地旅游公司一起享受每两晚 400 日元的假期。在这些假期里，您会参观许多 TA 上没有的地方。 || ||六个小时后，经过短暂的“舒适”停留，然后是一个小时的圣诞午餐，包括鸡肉、土豆、蔬菜和烤米饭。 “高速公路”服务处的食物是新鲜烹制的，相当美味且便宜，大约30日元，可以吃饱。 ||然后步行一个小时左右就到了松口村。这是梅江河畔一个美丽的古村落。我们欣赏中国移民（移民更合适）纪念广场，三个世纪以来，成千上万的工人离开这里前往法国领土。这里有一座古老的海关大楼，令人惊讶的是，这是一座现代化的海关大楼，但没有任何近期活动的迹象。沿着古色古香的主街走下去，就是殖民时期风格的将军饭店，可惜已经关门了，它散发出的氛围实在是太棒了。对面的楼梯平台上，有一尊妇女和儿童的雕像，向提着行李箱的男子挥手致意，颇为令人心酸。不知道一张20元的《宋江记忆》门票，是不是带他一路来到了汕头，开启了繁华的新生活，你得去看看这个牌子！||||反正，然后就坐车回去了再驱车一小时即可抵达梅州，入住百嘉园酒店。由于酒店外不允许停车，长途汽车让我们在距离门口约 100 米的地方下车。我们总共 55 个人，拉着或拖着行李箱，然后像鳄鱼一样沿着摩托车车道行驶，因为人行道上停满了摩托车。梅州像许多中国城镇一样，被数千个这些吵闹、臭气熏天但必不可少的装置所困扰，每个装置至少可容纳两个人。||||预订很混乱，但这是预料之中的，有 20 多个房间要分配，每个人都想成为第一个，我们的导游和前台工作人员都挥舞着门卡，喊着名字，所以很快大家就排队等候单层电梯。我和 SWMBO 在八楼。 SWMBO刷门钥匙打开门，惊喜！没有床只有一张沙发。 SWMBO 并不高兴，但作为一个喜欢冒险的人，我走进去，发现里面有一间卧室、一间大浴室，甚至在客厅旁边还有一个小厨房。现在，我们感觉我们刚刚中了彩票！我们有一套房间！当然，SWMBO 一如既往地抱怨。房间里太吵了，下面远处的道路上不断传来摩托车的声音。我告诉她不要太把礼物放在嘴里，高峰时间过后噪音肯定会减弱。安抚下来后，她开始使用免费WiFi查看微信。||||房间都非常干净整洁。一张双人床和一张大单人床，但令人惊讶的是没有衣柜，但门后墙上的挂钩上有几个衣架。客厅里有两个杯子和两个玻璃杯，还有通常的免费茶和水壶，浴室里也有通常的免费赠品。周围散布着大量的能量点。|| ||喝完自己带的咖啡，SWMBO 在微信上写完之后，我们决定进城去吃圣诞大餐。酒店没有餐厅。||||从酒店出来左转就到了嘉应大学南门，明明有很多学生餐馆，最后还是来到了一家看起来不错的高档餐厅（有桌布） ）但它是空的，这不是一个好兆头。然而，第二天早上，其他人都在那里吃着丰盛的早餐，有面条、蔬菜、鸡蛋和粥，而我则嚼着包子。早餐包含在假期的价格中，我们的旅伴一心想物有所值。 ||||我不饿，因为圣诞晚餐我吃了蜂蜜烤猪肉、蔬菜和米饭，前一天晚上在一家更好的学生餐馆喝了一罐啤酒。尽管她为圣诞晚餐准备了一碗中国香肠、蔬菜和米饭，但 SWMBO 还是准备了一顿丰盛的早餐。我们两人的价格是37元，你不能说我们在特殊场合不推船。|| ||我已经提前一晚了！ ||||我们回到酒店，果然房间里很安静，我们睡得很香。早上有即时热水洗澡。|| ||七点钟，本来就熙熙攘攘的梅州，看到一车旅客又拖着箱子沿着摩托车道去餐厅吃早餐，令人惊讶的是，大巴竟然停在了餐厅里。八点钟我们出发去参观千佛寺（TA点评），接着去盘坑风景区（TA点评），最后去Co-op进行一次购物疗法，然后向西北方向行驶两小时。几个小时到永定，然后在客家（国际）温泉度假村住一晚（TA 已审核）。

5 年前