Our 1:30 flight for Jinan was cancelled, and the one they rebooked us on doesn't take off 'til 11:00 this evening. Rather than make us wait at the airport, Shandong Airlines bussed us to an out of the way hotel where could lunch on beef bones with rice and tomatoes, pork nuggets, and egg drop soup. All this is free of charge and way more than American airlines do for their stranded passengers.
The place is clean, well-equipped, and weird. The lobby (pictured above) is done up with Christmas trees, red lanterns, and plastic elephants, There's a huge lily pond in the courtyard, stocked with obese gold fish and fake water fowl. (below) The crepe myrtle trees are well-tended, but the nearby pavillions are rusting out, though the plastic zebras it shelters do not appear to have suffered any ill effects.
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