Peace Hotel (Heping Fandian) Shanghai

Remember that old rule about getting out everything you are going to pack and then putting half of it away? Well we didn't! So today we set about doing just that, and have posted home seven and a half kilos (you didn't really think we lost weight did you?) fronm Shanghai back to home. Very foolish. Lesson learned.
But we turned the exercise …

So last week Courtney and I ventured off to Disney Business Office to pick up our passports and residency and work permits. We didnt really have a plan for the day....dangerous for us. We kept wandering toward the Bund. This is a very visited place that I have written about. It is the sectin of the Huangpu River which divides the new Pudong …

I love Shanghai!

Today I went on the "hop-on-hop-off" Shanghai bus tour! Those tours are my favourite kind as you can see the whole city and learn some interesting trivia so that you can prove you saw the whole city without much effort. This is what I learnt about Shanghai:

• Shanghai means “upon sea” as it is …

One more flight on our itinerary took us from Guilin to Shanghai and upon arrival we took the 300km per hour (400km during certain hours) Maglev train from the airport to Pudong and then connected to one of the busiest areas of Shanghai, East Nanjing Street, for our next home. Ming Town Youth hostel was excellently located right behind the …

... Major nibbled on.  Mickell had a Tsing Tao along with some tea for the table. Our flight to Shanghai leaves from Shenzhen at 20:05 (MU 5230) on China Eastern Airlines.  I have to tell myself over and over again why I'm making it hard on us by ...

... the chinese characters I had copied and he knew the address and off we went -- hopefully en route to the Fairmont Peace Hotel on the Bund in downtown Shanghai.  Around 35 minutes later, we arrived at the hotel.  The taxi fair was a total of ...

... amp; Pictures Eat Lunch -- Best Chinese Dumplings (Major says he's not eating it) Xiang Yang Park & French Concession Shanghai Acrobatics Show Here's our money conversion chart:     Chinese Yuan    ...

... all became. And our hotel was smack in the middle of it all. Our favorite travel agent got us a killer deal on the Fairmont Peace hotel. This is an iconic landmark, at the crossing of the Bund and Nanjing east road. One of the busiest places in ...

... The city is very modern, western with a chinese twist. The modern architecture just shows what can be achieved. We visited the Peace Hotel with it's famous Jazz band who seemed as old as the hotel and a few upmarket rooftop restaurants over looking the ...

... 1980s when Queen Elizabeth II visited Shanghai, but the speakers still remain.  There is the Peace Hotel, the Ritz Carlton of pre-Communist China and the site where the Gang of Four staked out their operations and implemented the Cultural ...

... , so we decided in one last indulgence before we had to catch the night train to Beijing: afternoon tea at the Fairmont Peace Hotel. Complete with their own take on a cucumber sandwich, scones served with clotted cream and jam, and an assortment of ...

... and I was hungry and in the hotel was  ‘Victor’s Café’ named after Victor Sassoon, who designed the Peace Hotel (once ‘The Cathay).  He was from a prominent Shanghai Jewish family who, along with other Jews escaped the ...

... , Mongolia and Russia not the easiest plus I didn't actually have time to type. So here we go with the update..... Shanghai, China 24-27th June 2007. Arrived in Shanghai ok (our last flight - movies Jindabyne (v.g.), The outrageous Bettie Paige ...

... day today looking at all the art deco architecture in the city. Finished up with a beer on the roof garden of the infamous Peace Hotel. What a view of the city skyline from there. Sadly, the day ended on a sour note when our continuing problems with ...