Weekly StandardMichelle Obama wrapped up her March visit to China with a stop in Chengdu, arriving on March 25 and departing for the United States on the following day. But that one leg of the trip alone required about 900 room nights, ranging from 21 rooms beginning on March 13 for the advance team to a peak of 144 rooms when the first lady herself was at the hotel.
The documents prepared in support of the stay estimated the cost at around 1,393,500 yuan (RMB), or $222,000 at current exchange rates:
According to the documents, one of the factors in choosing the Shangri-La Hotel was a security consideration that “will allow party to occupy the entire top two floors for the visit.”
The documents also state that the local Ritz-Carlton had expressed interest in hosting the first lady, but:
in preliminary price comparisons, the cost was sufficiently more than the Shangri-La. We requested a price reduction but a great cost difference remained for the both the Executive Junior Suites, that will serve as control rooms, and the Presidential Suite.
The cost of the first lady’s hotel room for the Beijing portion of her trip, reportedly $8,400/night, raised some eyebrows at the time. As THE WEEKLY STANDARD reported, the prices of the Westin Chaoyang Hotel where Mrs. Obama and her group stayed had been deemed “prohibitive” for Vice President Biden’s trip to China in December 2013.
So far, the documents for the Chengdu portion of Mrs. Obama’s trip are the only ones that have been posted online by the State Department. Mrs. Obama was in China March 19-26.
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“According to the documents, one of the factors in choosing the Shangri-La Hotel was a security consideration that “will allow party to occupy the entire top two floors for the visit.””
A PARTY??? So now we are paying for her to have a PARTY while more of our people suffer and go hungry out on the streets and her Kenyan monkey ass is sitting there partying and taking up all hotel space in China?
Hang the treasonous bitch and give her to the lions!
Haha! Ammo shortage.
Look at her and her daughters walking along the Great Wall all by themselves. I’ll have you know that I have been to the Great Wall and there are literally thousands, if not millions of people there EVERY DAY. It’s impossible to be standing there without thousands of tourists standing or walking around you every moment. You’re telling me they were able to close down half the Great Wall for THEM!!!??? Are you kidding me?
What if the same thing happened in our country? Are we going to let Xi Jin Ping and his family do the same thing? Or how about Cameron or the Queen of England? This is insane. I’m surprised the Chinese people haven’t kicked them out yet. This is sickening!
Hey NC, what would they possibly be interested to even see? Chinatown? I’m sure they can’t wait for their first episode of Duck Dynasty.
Prison is a lot cheaper