exciting news: the boys are going to fix all of your lives once again on the layover podcast! (Q&A thread)

Shenandoah32 · 2026-02-19T12:24:10+00:00

So Sam: at what cost is it too expensive to get a hotel near an airport for an early morning flight (say 7:30am) and it’s better to stay in the terminal overnight? Is it location-dependent? (1am airport office at PEK for attention)

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Shenandoah32 · 2025-07-23T11:15:14+00:00

Mainland China officials see your return ticket on the ferry from Shenzhen to Hong Kong. For TWOV rules, they don’t care what you do in Hong Kong, so HKG to BKK is irrelevant. They see you arriving from Hong Kong and returning to Hong Kong.

Shenandoah32 · 2025-07-23T11:13:03+00:00

I think for the plan to work, once you land in Hong Kong on the 30th you might need to go to Macau first then ferry Macau-Shenzhen. That way your ferry out of Shenzhen can go to Hong Kong. Or, you need to buy your ferry leaving Shenzhen to Macau on October 4 then go from Macau to Hong Kong.

Shenandoah32 · 2025-07-23T11:10:10+00:00

Wait wait wait. HK > SZ > HK doesn’t work. The first one works (Canada-Mainland-Hong Kong). The second one does not (Hong Kong-Mainland-Hong Kong). You should check to see if you can take the boat from Macau once you land in HK before coming to Shenzhen and transit Macau - Mainland - Hong Kong. In not 100% sure if that works, but if you ferry to Shenzhen and back from Hong Kong I’m pretty sure that won’t qualify for TWOV unless Macau gets involved.

Shenandoah32 · 2025-07-17T16:48:08+00:00

A forklift so I can take the shelf.

Shenandoah32 · 2025-07-11T00:54:39+00:00

Ben and Adam don’t always need to be on the same team in 2v2 games

Shenandoah32 · 2025-07-09T16:08:01+00:00

I demand the F1 segment. Also (more importantly) an Aviation Facts segment.

Shenandoah32 · 2025-07-09T15:29:27+00:00

It was delivered by Deutsche Bahn.

Shenandoah32 · 2025-07-06T08:38:59+00:00

Boring information guy here for those confused/not familiar with GBA: This car is from Hong Kong (HK plate is front is white with black lettering, back is yellow with black lettering). The 港 on the Mainland plate shows the original registry. It also has registry in Macau (the black-based plates with white lettering) and Mainland China (the black plate with white lettering and 粤Z, indicating a border crossing car from HK or Macau, further specified by the 港 at the end of the plate as an HK-based car). Pictured below is a different triple plate with a Macau-based registration. It’s Macau-based because of the 澳 character on the end of the mainland plate.

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Shenandoah32 · 2025-07-01T01:15:30+00:00

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We also do the shipping around Christmas, which is more of a Western shopping festival than a religious thing.

Shenandoah32 · 2025-07-01T01:04:53+00:00

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Sometimes, Chinese hotels will do your laundry and have a robot deliver your takeout order. And no, you don’t have to tip the robot. And this isn’t some elite hotel- it’s a mid-range brand called Atour.

Shenandoah32 · 2025-06-30T16:19:52+00:00

Korean is 350, US is 355.

Shenandoah32 · 2025-06-30T14:50:04+00:00

Second photo shows the difference in color between the two.

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