Sofitel Hyland Shanghai

Friday, January 2nd WOW. Just WOW. Tami and I have no words to describe this city. When we first arrived, the domestic airport was empty. It was just our plane and one other at the baggage claim. For a Friday afternoon on a Holiday weekend, we were surprised on how quiet it was. As we were driving into town, the road were fairly empty and we made good time. As we started to get closer to our hotel, we got the expected traffic like Beijing and Tokyo. BUT...wow...I have to say it again...WOW! C...

had early breakfast in the hotel and it was awesome,lots of frenchmen around too....took quick walk down nanjing road again heaps of window shoppingcarried down to the huangpu river via the bgot on the bund sightseeing train lots of lights short ride 5mins (50 yuan) we got off and took a look at the pearl tower of a day not as nice of a night but. took lots of pictures and run into a heaps of school kids out on a day tour so cute,but look at them when they get older lol,back under the river t...

we arrived about 10am into pundong international airport,heaps of blackheads we were picked up the hotel transfer,it took around 45mins to get to the hotel....lots of road work happening,because of the expo in 2010,bumpy as ride.we quickly checked in dropped our bags off in the room (1712)not a bad views os we overlooked nanjing road shopping apartment stores.we walked in the rain up and down and got annoyed by so many men and women wanting to show/sell you there handbags/watches/clothes/hats...

had early breakfast again decided to go the copy markets on the otherside of town,so many stalls and too many people chasing up and down the street for business and we had these annying locals follow us around every where and i got really mad at them almost physically too....not good,so eventually we lost them after hours of painful looks,because i had to stop looking at them. we stopped at jeans stall and i bougth two pairs of for $75.00 which i thought was a good buy,with the help of philli...

8/16...Got here about 3pm where our tour guide Darren picked us up and took us to our hotel. Got organized and decided to go out to the Shanghi Urban Planning Center and dinner at the Shanghi Oriental Pearl TV Tower. Third highest TV tower in the world. Enjoyed the lights of Shanghi from 263 meters in the air and then went to get some swimming goggles. Darren did not know Speedo (how is this possible?) but he does now. Kris was put in charge of getting Jack goggles and ended up spending over ...