Holiday Inn Downtown Shanghai

... . Such loud voices too. The negativity was almost palatable. We flew from Beijing to Shanghai. We are staying in the Holiday Inn Downtown Shanghai. We got here pretty late and I was pretty exhausted from just the few hours with the group. Cory and ...

... -coloured, a true contrast to other side.  The Huangpu River actually meets up with the Yangtze River. 9pm we check in at the Holiday Inn, for an early night in.   And guess what, we love this hotel, the beds are soft!  Yeah!!  ...

... Gardens, built in 1559 for the Emperor's most senior General and his 18 wives (hope for Paul yet). Being situated in downtown Shanghai, although the roads were manic, the gardens were tranquil, amazing comparison. After our buffet style lunch, we walked ...

... the red light!!  Got to the airport in time and got on the plane!  Holy! Off to Vancouver we go to connect to Shanghai.  The plane to Shanghai is awesome.  Sitting in executive business class, had my own little cublicle with a bed, tv, ...

We went to the Shanghai Museum today! It was a three story building with a different room for each theme. There was the bronze, ceramics, painting, calligraphy, furniture, currency, stamps, and jade. I really enjoyed looking at everything, and the gift ...

... noon. We had lunch at a hotel with classic food from the area, including bamboo! and went on the four-hour bus drive to Shanghai. Once there, we went shopping around an upscale area, then had dinner. The main event of the day was Era, a cirque du soleil ...

... old buildings coming down.  China likes new stuff.              Shanghai seems a lot more clean than Beijing.  At first, it was pretty smoggy yesterday and this morning at my ...

... which apparently is the best in China but I must admit that I spent most of it trying to find a working toilet! Overall though Shanghai is a great place, a huge modern metropolis that really does show the qualities of China and what they are capable of. ...

... taking a taxi.  BIG MISTAKE.  I rode the Metro all the way to JinJiang Park, when I exited I realized I was in the Shanghai suburbs.  I consulted my Metro map and saw there was a Jing'an Temple stop was near the business areas, so I decided ...

... , I stopped at the China Sex Culture Museum.  It was located in the same area as the Bund Sightseeing Tunnel and Shanghai Aquarium...like the Sightseeing Tunnel it was a little kitshy but interesting.  Admission was 20 RMB and a additional 10 ...

... have a few drinks on the patio, but the best we got was permission to go out and check the view.  Even-though Shanghai was a little smoggy today, the view was incredible.  You can see the Pudong business area across the river and you can see ...

... buy at lower prices, to pick up some good bargins.  For lunch, something a bit different, finger foods, they call it Shanghai Snacks, very nice, the restaurant was one that is situated in the Bazaar area. Our next stop was at The ...

... if the scent is lost.  Eventually we found a noodle place and ate an order of beef noodles and little dragon balls, Shanghai specialties.  Little dragon balls are won ton stuffed with meat and some soup broth, so when you bite into it out ...

... local Shanghai native who will be with us the entire journey. We left the airport and went straight downtown.  We have to say on first impression that Shanghai is quite westernized and eerily similar to the large cities we are familiar with.  In ...

... when the train reached its maximum speed of 420 km/hr.  The hotel I am staying in this time is the Holiday Inn Downtown (yes, there are Holiday Inns in China) which was conveniently located next to the Shanghai Railway Station and Metro stop.  ...

... my collection! We headed to the airport to go to Beijing. When we landed in Beijing, we went straight to our hotel called Holiday Inn Downtown Temple of Heaven. We had the night to ourselves. Alyssa and I met up with her friend Zach who had graduated from ...

... were introduced for the Olympic Games). Getting in our car with Aggie and our driver Mr Chow, off we headed for the Holiday Inn in downtown Beijing, where an early checkin had been arranged and we immediately headed for a few hours kip. Meeting back up ...

We stared our day by heading to the aquarium. To get there we took the Bund Sightseeing Tunnel, which was hilarious. It was a dinky tunnel with neon lights and wooshing sounds. Then we walked from there, past the pearl tower into the aquarium. The ...

... that 30 years ago, nothing was there except rice paddies.  The city and the country have really changed since they opened their doors to the rest of the world in the 1980s.  It’s nice to have free internet in our Holiday Inn ...

... the airport. I kindly asked the bell boy for a cab and was told that it would take 30 minutes. EXCUSE ME? I'm in a hotel in downtown Shanghai in the late afternoon on a weekday and it's going to take 30 mins? C'mon!?!   I made ...