Grand Central Hotel Shanghai

Travel Blogs from Shanghai

Arrived in Shanghai

A travel blog entry by al_deb_far_east

Day 66 Wednesday 22 August - Shanghai

We got into Hong Qaio Station at just before 15h00, bought the equivalent of an Oyster card and caught the metro to half a block away from our hotel. Deb has been amazing with her choice of hotels and their position. The hotel looks fairly new, but the inside & the rooms are quite classical, and …

A Brief Return to Our Favourite City of Shanghai

A travel blog entry by crowdywendy

Our Central Hotel in Shanghai was lovely and after a good night's sleep we managed to fit in a short walk around our hotel block very early the next morning. It reminded us of how much we love Shanghai. The sights, sounds and smells were strangely familiar.

Shanghai in the morning is always amazingly quiet. Like many Asian …

Shanghai - From Here to Modernity

A travel blog entry by timshazz

... eat anything you like, but finding a bar here is hard work. Capital Square has a couple of street side cafes where you can kick back and relax with an over-priced beer and watch the endless stream of humanity amble past and take sneaky photos of you!!

The Bund displays Shanghai’s unique history with its lengthy collection of colonial style buildings capturing just about every period and style of European architecture. The area is pivotal ...

Short Trip to Shanghai

A travel blog entry by ahhhreel

... the end of the day and switched to an earlier train home, only before my apple charger broke and I had to frantically run around an electronics complex near the train station trying to replace it. Luckily, after 25 minutes, I finally found someone who was able to sell me an Apple charger, unfortunately at Apple prices...

I plan on returning to Shanghai this Wednesday to go to Rosh Hashanah services at Ohel Rachel, a very historic synagogue in Shanghai that is only open ...

A Room Of One's Own

A travel blog entry by chinesewhispers

... It was originally 3,700 Yuan but I knocked her down a little.

It is fully furnished and I managed to wrangle a new microwave and dvd player out of my landlady too. It is on the 25th floor, and I have a large window with a window seat, where I can sit and survey my kingdom.

But the best thing about it is the area. It is a strange dichotomy of old and new. Mixed in ...