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Wow. I found the P90x workout on Kickass Torrents, complete with all the documentation. It's a full program. Took 5 hours to download.

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I'm not sure China Eastern's service can get any worse. When we booked our flights two weeks ago they must have known they were going to cancel the daily flights and cut back to twice per week, but they booked us.

On Monday when they called to say the Tuesday outbound flight was cancelled and we would have to change to the earlier Friday we decided to cancel entirely and re-book. That was done on Wednesday and we got a full refund. It took over an hour to process the cancellation and a further 20 minutes to give out the cash (despite the fact the original payment was by debit card).

Today China Eastern called to tell us the Wednesday return flight that we cancelled two days ago would have to be re-booked to two days later. They must be working from a paper printout rather than up-to-date computer records since we already cancelled.

This whole episode leaves me in doubt about booking any future flights with CE.

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Forums > Travel Yunnan > Kunming to Hong Kong

Thanks everybody for your responses and suggestions. I've cancelled with China Eastern and re booked on Dragonair.

Flying via Shenzhen would not have been perfect for us this time around. On my return flight from Toronto I was to meet my wife at the Hong Kong airport (with her arriving from Kunming) so that we could go to our hotel together. She gets lost in Kunming, where she grew up and would be totally confused going from Shenzhen to Kowloon. I also already had hotel bookings for my first night out near Hong Kong airport. Perhaps next trip will be via Shenzhen though, on an airline other than China Eastern.

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OK, lots of changes and new information we need to know about. Let me start by answering my own question.

If you are here on an L Visa, visiting family, then you can change to the Q or S Visa without going out of China. Also, since those two Visa classes lead to a residence permit they will do the residence permit at the same time as the Visa so no extra trip to the PSB is needed.

The Q Visa
Yesterday my wife and I went to the PSB. She recently got a new passport and her Visa was about to expire today. Here's what we learned:
First of all, my wife is here to take care of her sister who is seriously disabled after a major stroke. That's no problem for the Visa, however, they now wanted proof of the relationship which we never had to provide before! That required a trip to the police station to have them go through the archives (manual records - not computer) to find that information. I was quite impressed that they located it in only 10 minutes.
Back to the PSB with that new information. They now told my wife she could get a 1 year Q visa (that would be a Q1) but to get a 2 year she would need to go to a specific hospital to get a health certificate. It's nice to know about this but we just didn't have time with the current Visa expiring, but next time ....

The S Visa
I just have to prove my relationship with my wife to get the S Visa with the same expiry as my wife. I'm guessing they'll also want the health certificate for a 2 year. For many years now they've just been accepting our marriage certificate. Now they want that certificate notarized by the consulate. That means I have to make a trip to Chongqing (Canadian Consulate) to get that done at a greater expense than a taxi trip to the PSB. I'll need to phone and ensure that the Canadian consulate will do this for a marriage certificate issued in Las Vegas or do I then need to go to the American consulate in Chengdu as well?

The new rules seem a bit strange, but in the long term will be quite a bit more convenient for us. Also, if they're issuing longer term visas then there should be (eventually) a reduction in the workload at the PSB.

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It also does not address which of the VISAs may be issued (on renewal) here in Kunming. For example, can my wife and I change from L visa to Q and S without having to leave Kunming?

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"Travellers in affected areas have been asked to leave until blocked roads are reopened"

If the roads are blocked, how will the travellers leave?

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This is not a uniquely Chinese problem either. It seems people in government jobs all over the world follow the patter. In Canada and the US the politicians like to claim there is no corruption, while at the same time they all have their "entitlements", like free lunches, apartments and limousines at the tax payers expense.

Toronto councilors even made trips to Shanghai to "study" the transit system, then went home and did nothing with it.

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People may have three consecutive days off work or school, but they went to work or school on Saturday and Sunday to make up for some of that lost time.

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Had my first ever visit to Slice of Heaven last night for a group party. Barbara recognized me as a newcomer and immediately came to welcome me and introduce herself.

While speaking with her at the counter, a server walked past with a pizza for one table. The aroma immediately caught my attention. It was awesome.

Our group shared 4 different pizzas. All were amazing. I think the sauce really makes the difference since it was very flavourful. I also put back to cups of cappuccino. I guess they must have fixed problems noted in other reviews because I found it to be quite good.

If I lived closer I would be a regular here.