Mealbay’s service level has decreased dramatically. That is the reason why I never order at Mealbay any longer, and instead order at Sherpas. But Sherpas has been growing rather much, so they have difficulties keeping up with delivery times. Hence after 3 years of Sherpas I tried Mealbay again, but their service level has decreased even further.

To give you an example: I called Mealbay to order at a restaurant, and then half an hour later they called me to mention to me that the restaurant was not providing delivery service on that day. I asked to talk to a manager but the phone was hung up. When I called back I was told to stay on the line, so I waited….for seven minutes, en then the phone was hung up again. After that I tried to call Mealbay, but they would not pick up my phone.

So, in conclusion of my Mealbay review:
- no food delivered;
- no telephone answered;
- no service received;
- a total of 1 hr wasted.

I will order again at Sherpas, which I have been doing for the last three years…waiting 10 min. longer for food is better than waiting one hour without receiving anything.

wo would try it

When you first walk into this market, and you just think how are you going to look through all the stalls. But you realise everyone more or less has the same stuff. There are about 7 floors, each with different specialities, from shirts, watches, handbags, jewellery, designer clothes etc. You can pick up some great bargains in this market, but beware they really try to rip you off. If you really want something, only then ask they price and then haggle with them. Usually when you ask the price and don’t want the item they can get quite rude. When you ask the price of something they will tell you triple the price of what it is worth. For example a mulberry bag he started on 600RMB which is like £60. I said too expensive and the trick is to walk away and they will naturally bring the price down themselves. The further you walk the lower the price gets. He then dropped down to 200RMB and as I walked a couple more steps he said 100RMB which is like £10.

They will ask you your price also, give them a quarter of the price they ask and I guarantee they will come down to that if not maybe a little more which would still be cheap as you gave them a lower price. This place is simply full of fake designer goods.

This restaurant was extremely packed out every night, I went here twice and was not able to get a seat so on my last nights stay in Beijing I went back and luckily got a table. This place was recommended by many people in China however for the price we paid it was not nice at all. We paid about £40 to eat here and you get a set menu. You have a hotpot like stove on your table with boiling water which has some seasonings in there. You simply get your noodles, beef slices etc and put them in the water and in a few minutes take them out and eat as they cook very quickly. I found this food to be very bland and not tasty at all. We wasted most of our food, hardly ate and wished we had just eaten in McDonalds. It depends how you like your food in order to enjoy this, as I eat a lot of spicy food, this was just tasteless for me.

On my recent trip to Beijing I stayed at this hotel. This hotel is located in the heart of Beijing. Not only does it have all the tourist attractions nearby but has 2 massive shopping malls at the end of the road. The shopping area is known as Wangfujing. There are lots of shops for cheap gifts and many food outlets in the shopping malls, such as Pizza Hut, McDonalds etc. I dont think the hotel allow you to bring take away in, so you would have to sneak this in. Right opposite the hotel you have designer shops such as Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Gucci etc. Taxi’s are incredibly cheap to get around and are easy to get from outside the hotel. Our stay in the hotel was very pleasant, the room was lovely, we had a seperate living room with tv and seperate bedroom with tv. Tea/coffee provided in the rooms free of charge and complimentary small bottles of water were given each day. Any service requested from house keeping was actioned straightaway. Wifi was free of charge in the hotel. The staff are friendly and very welcoming. The hotel has a calm lobby area where you can sit and with massive viewing windows its nice to sit and look at the world go by. The mini bar and bar in the lobby have extortionate prices, don’t bother buying anything as there is a supermarket 5 mins walk and has more reasonable prices for snacks/water etc. There is a nice gym, the ladies changing rooms have lockers, and a personal sauna room and then linked access through the changing room to the pool. The breakfast in this hotel is gorgeous, you have such a huge selection of foods form pancakes, crepes, cereals, fruits to noodles, eggs, toast (full english breakfast basically). The restaurant staff also provide excellent service. Overall beautiful hotel, great location, helpful staff and pleasant stay.

expensive, but the food was incredible delicious

James reviewed it quite well. I have nothing to add.

great, but i bit too touristy

- small rooms
- cheap
- hutong style
- near to metro line 5
- near to lama temple
- by night: walk through the old hutongs and enjoy the great atmosphere
- small fantastic restaurants around (go to the jiaozi place near by…best jiaozi around dongzhimen)

- good airport express to the city
- helpful stuff
- impressive building

If staying in HK you will not be able to survive without this magic wand! Riding the bus, TRAM or train, paying in several stores, eating at McDonald’s and so on and so forth. You can recharge it almost everywhere and if you leave HK with some left budget they will refund it at the airport.

Must have in that city!