Shanghai Hotel Guide - Boutique Hotels in Shanghai, China

Check-in and check-out: smooth and easy. Location: very good for the price. Bed: very comfortable Plusses: TV, water bottles, plenty of towels, pretty nice bathroom, free slippers, toothbrush (at the front desk), hair dryer Minuses: Found a random piece of floss on the ground, main sink drained very slowly, a few weird/spent air fresheners, a pet goldfish in the hotel entryway was dying...

A nice well located hotel, in a great, a bit more residential, neighborhood, yet very accessible to some of the main dining and shopping venues, and it has Fuxing Park next door, which is brilliant. The facilities are well intentioned, and the room is of a decent size, though it's was beginning to show a bit of wear and tear. The 8th floor lounge seemed to be closed each time I tried to visit.

Second time in this B hotel ... Very good!! Recommended for business or tourism trips!

The hotel is beautiful and classy and conveniently right on the Bund. Check-in was swift and easy. The rooms and bathrooms were spacious, We stayed in the Shanghai Studio rooms. The bed was very comfortable, soft but firm; there were 4 king-size pillows provided. Also plenty of free bottled water. Restrooms are Western-style (this is important in China, you may get a squatting toilet instead of a sitting toilet in some hotels), and the toilets were washlet (warm water shoots out to wash your bum at the touch of a button). The water pressure in the shower was an excellent full spray. Internet service was speedy, though my VPN did not always manage to connect. The hotel staff will provide assistance to use their VPN if you don't have one of your own. The staff was consistently friendly, polite and helpful, especially with providing written Chinese directions for cab drivers, making telephone calls for us in Chinese, and translating random Chinese things we could not decipher, like alerts on our phone!

Staff are helpful and very pleasant, particularly restaurant staff who are excellent. food was very good although breakfast was a little cold at times maybe due to buffet. Communications leave a lot to be desired as I could not connect to my e-mails

We only stayed for 2 nights, but we were very happy with the hotel. The staff were attentive and helpful. The room and bathroom were a great size (we got an upgrade) and it really felt like a treat staying there. The location was good for getting out and about and the hotel was pretty easy to find. We didn't use the hotel facilities, so I can't comment on those. One thing I would suggest to the hotel is to provide a few extra complimentary tea bags.

The room tended to be dark and needed more or better placed lighting. There were no doors separating the washroom and the lack of hooks made access to towels a bit awkward. Otherwise, the suite was spacious and nice.

This is an interesting, historic and beautiful hotel. Close to good shopping district (10 mins walk) and a lively bar district (15 mins). The room decor is a bit old but fits in with the atmosphere. Fantastic buffet breakfast is included in the price. The staff seemed a bit remote and tepid, not very welcoming and weren't forthcoming with their help like a good hotel should be. For example: The desk staff don't acknowledge you passing them as you went in and out, no "welcome" or "goodnight" like you'd expect. Maybe because they get a lot of visitors that come just to look round. After going out for breakfast the first morning we received breakfast tickets for the following morning and discovered the fantastic (inclusive) buffet, then we discovered that we had actually received tickets for the first morning in our check-in pouch but weren't informed that we had them; so we missed one very nice breakfast. The restaurant (buffet) staff were inattentive during our first visit, welcomed us to our table but then abandoned us without any directions. On our subsequent visits visits they got better (offered, and brought us coffee). Had to search for the omelette chef and the younger staff spent a lot of time chatting amongst themselves. It all felt like the service associated with a lower-star hotel. Overall, a nice stay and would recommend this place to others for a first stay, but next time we'll try another similar-star hotel in this same area.

This place was beautiful, and worth the money. But I have two warnings: 1. It is in the middle of a neighborhood, which means there really isn't a good view unless you have a room in the back of the hotel. (There's a mini-lake and deck behind). 2. They don't speak good English. I speak a good bit of Chinese, so it was fine for me. But it would cause problems for other Westerners who don't speak any.

Great service--immediately brought anything we asked for to our hotel room. Next to iapm, a large, luxurious shopping mall with amazing food for very reasonable prices and cute shops. Comfortable room; no complaints.