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here in hangzhou, i live in a really nice apartment complex. i'm told that this is the area a lot of the hangzhou elite choose to live in. my apartment is great, wood floors, marble everywhere. i like it.
the complex is also quite nice. there's a fancy restaurant, and 27th-floor bar/cafe, a huge park, an outdoor pool, an indoor pool, and a workout center. there's lots of other stuff, too, that i don't particularly care about (tennis courts, basketball courts, etc). there are also beautiful fountains every here and there.
what i don't get, however, is this.
they don't seem to use any of these things. the restaurant is only available for dinner. the bar/cafe doesn't have any food (not even snacks). the workout center opens at 10am, so i couldn't go in the morning. they only turn the fountains on when the weather is nice and it's a saturday (i think i've got it narrowed down to that schedule... i can see several from my balcony, and they're not on right now, nice weather sunday). but what i really don't get, what really bugs me, is the outdoor pool.
the pool is gorgeous. it's huge. there are pretty stone cliff-type walls around one side. there's a little wading area. there's a nice patio with a coffeeshop (that's also not open... though i can't get a reason why). but the pool is only open 2.5 months out of the year. not when the weather's nice, but only when it's dreadful hot. AND it opens at 4pm. WHAT?!! i bet this pool costs a ton of money to maintain. maybe i can understand the 2.5 month thing. but 4pm?! daisy and i went for a swim around 2pm, when the weather is hot as hell and a pool would be refreshing, but they didn't let us in. i couldn't believe it. i still can't believe it.
anyway, sorry for that rant. i just don't get why this place costs so much if you can't use anything. i've noticed, also, that every hotel i've stayed in with bray has had a huge pool that was "under construction". every one! i've never once been swimming, but every hotel has a pool. weird.
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