Support and sympathy

The Metropark Lido Hotel near Beijing's International Airport became the focus of world attention recently as family and friends of the missing MH 370 gathered to wait for the latest news. Ma Xue finds out the enormous effort and logistics hotel staff invested at such a difficult time.

The days stretched to weeks, and emotions ran high. The relatives and friends of the missing plane housed at the Metropark Lido Hotel were fraught with distress, frustrated by the lack of news and tempers were frayed.

Yet the staff of the hotel had to make sure they were all adequately served and fed, even though food may be the last thing they were thinking of.