Snow Storm in Beijing

January 3rd, 2010

We planed to go to Harbin departure time at 08:05am with Air China.

But has been delayed until 11:00am due to bad weather, it was heavy snow at the airport at that time.

After boarding at 11:00am, we still waiting in the plane for more than 2 hours and even the plane was trying to take off.

Then, we came back to airport as the flight had been cancelled due to snow storm very bad.

We came back to airport at 15:00pm, and we saw so many people in the Beijing International Airport, because all flight were cancelled.

Long line at every airlines counters, many people struggle to get a new tickets for tomorrow flight. Same with us we felt very desperate that we could not continue our trip to Harbin , we called CTRIP asking whether we could change our flight, and luckily we can get a new flight schedule for tomorrow morning while still many people in the airport had been lined up for so long and might not get their ticket changed.

so next step, where we had to stay overnight? actually we just planned to stay overnight at the airport because we could not go anywhere or even to the city.

But someone offered us a hotel with only RMB 210 for a night which near the airport, we took the offer.

It was a nightmare for us, in that cold weather, the heater in that hotel was broken and no hot water either. Me and my wife slept together in one bed with double blanket and wearing our down jacket, and still felt very cold.

At 5:00am, we quickly check out from the hotel and wait for the shuttle to the airport from the hotel.

Arrived at the airport, we saw so many people lying on the floor, still line up at every the check in counters. But for us, we just asked our tickets then can go to waiting hall.

At 08:00am we were heading to Harbin by China Southern Airlines