Chinese or "Western Bars"?
You'd be hard pressed to spend £300 in a week in chinese bars. Im assuming you drank in Western Hotel bars to run up a tab like that. Or was it a typo? Was in China last easter and banquet style meals for a party of 10 with all you could drink worked out on average £30 i.e. £3 a head - private room, very nice. That's about £1 per person per hour. And these were top notch resturants with incredible food and beverages.

We did bump into a few people staying at the "Holiday Inn" type places paying $120 a night and drinking $5 beers - It'd be like paying £2000 a night over here and drinking £50 bottles of beer - pretty shameful when you consider what the bar staff are paid, and quite unnecessary.

Entire two week trip cost me about £600 in expenses, including hotels, meals 2 internal flights, a day coach journey and a half day train journey.

Are you sure the guy wasn't Japanese or Korean? £300's nothing for bar bill in Tokyo (even for one person).

Mind you if the State's paying then it's all funy money - bit like the bundles of receipts you get.
( buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Mon 12 Nov 2007, 15:34, Reply)