We leave for China leave on 14 and arrive on 15th

Up early to connect with a London to Paris flight on Air France and then a two hour layover before our flight to Shanghai. We had been originally informed that we would be travelling on Lufthansa to Shanghai and a good friend in Lufthansa had high hopes of getting us upgraded from economy only three days before the departure we were informed we would be traveling on Air France instead. Damn!!
All in all the two flight and waiting at CDG Airport took about 18 hours and we were pretty tired by the time we arrived in Shanghai Airport.  e then transferred to the GRAND YOU HOTEL

Looks like a prison

  in the Pudong area of China and the rest of the day was free unless you wanted to join the group dinner. e chose to meet one of Noels business colleagues who arrived at the Hotel in a large chauffeur driven BM 7 series much to the interest of the other people in our group. We had a  nice dinner with Noels colleagues and then back to the Hotel for some well earned rest.
The Hotel was sort of OK with small rooms and not of the quality that we are used to stay in, buts the way it is.