Holiday Inn Express Shanghai

We walked to the hotel from Shanghai Central Station to check in to Holiday Inn Express Zhabei. Not exactly a great place to be in since there are a lot of construction going around the hotel. No wonder the rate is really cheap. Anyway, we are taking a ...

... have found that the taxi meter goes up at double speed and double the cost of taxis in Beijing. Arrived at the new hotel, Holiday Inn Express Sanlin, which is just as nice as the other, but this time in a much better location, only 7km from the Expo and ...

We stayed at the Holiday Inn Express here.  We get checked in.  By the way, bell boys seem to be in abundance at all the hotels here.  We all pile in the elevator and we press 14 for our floor.  The door shuts.  We go ...

... on rice and noodle’s. We got a room for the night. The next morning we ended up having to book into a Holiday Inn Express near Shanghai Main railway station. Sort of soulless, sort of sterile but with the expo on we were lucky to get a room at all. ...

... the track leading up to it being surrounded by ravines and barbed wire. The hotel staff was most sympathetic and booked us into a Holiday Inn Express much closer to the Expo, however we did still have to pay a bit extra and also the room rate for the new ...

Up early for another delicious breakfast - turns out Holiday Inn Express breakfasts are the same wherever you are and offer a selection of noodles, pickled things and grey eggs.  We took the packed subway to the Expo gates to get our tickets (cheap ...

... health and has worked primarily in food santitation. This entry is dedicated to her. ;) Breakfast at the Holiday Inn Express in Shanghai included: Salad Fried corn cakes Steamed Buns Tea infused Hard boiled Eggs Cucumbers Green beans Pork ...

... Being home was kind of surreal and it kinda felt like I never left! The only difference was that we spent Christmas in a Holiday Inn Express. Though I worried at first about feeling at home in a King Suite, all that mattered was that I had all the people ...

... the driver did not know English and we did not know where we were.  About 10 minutes into the trip we finally saw a Holiday Inn Express that we had passed the day before and we started to breath easier.  In the end it was shorter than the other ...

... 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 ...

... .  Honestly, Epcot Center at Walt Disney World has much better country pavilions that are more in keeping with Expos past than Shanghai Expo does.             BUT let me reiterate that I did not ...

Shanghai Expo Tips            I just had a couple of days to plan my trip to Shanghai as I originally didn't have time to come down here.  As such then, I didn’t do a very good job of planning ...

Glad to be back in 50 degree weather. leaving Monday morning-brutal day of traveling to get to Auckland. AW ...

... so. Joel and I bargained for some old medals, delightful matches and  old red army posters. I took  pictures of the skyline at night. Such opulence.  The subway system in Shanghai is vast but not as efficient nor comfortable as Hong ...

        Flew from Beijing to Shanghai yesterday.  Plan was only an hour late.  Hope that will not be the method of travel during my whole trip for flying - always late.  It was raining in Shanghai ...

... our way to Shanghai and visit the Bund, which is a promenade overlooking the Huangpu river towards the East side of Shanghai.  The river separates the West and east sides of Shanghai, but most of Shanghai is developed on the ...

... to Paris. Although they were still boarding, the luggage from the Shanghai flight wasn’t available. They put me on the 6.15pm and I eventually got to the hotel at 9.30pm. The Holiday Inn Express is really nice and my room looks onto the ...