Holiday Inn Pudong

... the highway which cut right through the heart of Pudong New Area. Fifteen minutes later and I was standing on the steps of the Holiday Inn on Jufeng Road. I had read that taxis in China are extremely cheap, but never had I imagined that a journey of some ...

... filled with creepy little shops and African and Middle Eastern men harrassing us to buy copy watches, led us to flee to the Holiday Inn down the street. This was a significantly larger expense, but completely worth it. Our first order of business in Hong ...

... for 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 ...

... -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!!  ...

... us the promise of three tickets from a local agency for the following day. We headed toward the promising neon light of the nearby Holiday Inn and got lastminuteexpensiveroom for the night. As promised, the day after at 10:15 the agency guy showed up and ...

... 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.  ...

... . The Belgravia hit the spot, a 1000sq ft apartment - two bedrooms, two bathrooms, kitchen and cheaper than the surprisingly ritzy Holiday Inn next door. Built in 2009, the website boasted hotel chic styling, and whilst the photos didn't lie, it's clear ...

 We arrived safely from Yanching and settled into the Holiday Inn Vista, our final stop on this holiday. It is nice to think we don't have to pack our bag now for 6 nights! The hotel is well situated with a local store right at the entrance and ...

... ; I saw an interesting sculpture of an egg?.  The reason it caught my eye was because I saw an identical sculpture on the Pudong side, so I took a picture of it. We were getting hungry so we walked back to Nanjing Road.  According to Choe, it ...

... in, others are now beautiful hotels.   The view from the Bund across the River is the new modern commerical area Pudong, a contrast to the old, which is rather funny because the Pudong area in the mid 20th century was once the poorest quarter, ...

... Our destination was the Bund Sightseeing Tunnel.  For 40 RMB you can ride a rail-car across the Huangpu River to the Pudong section through a tunnel of lights.  I was imagining something along the lines of the Freemont Street light show in ...

... Center where we ran into our good friends and colleague Kim and Dave Rees and their family.  The SWFC is in the Pudong financial center and it towers above the other Shanghai skyline.  It is the tallest building in the world if you don't count ...

... a mile, it became obvious I wasn't going to make it back by the appointed time.  In the end, I exchanged the shirt, we reconnected and made it back to the hotel in time for a quick lunch and then off to "Pudong International" for the flight ...

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Well, after a looooong 13 1/2 hour flight from L.A. to Shanghai, we finally made it. There are so many people here! Your question for Monday is: How many people acutally live in Shanghai? Use the Internet or an encyclopedia to find ...