Holiday Inn Shanghai

... 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 ...

... -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!!  ...

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 ...

... ; We 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 ...

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. ...

... backpacks, shorts and t-shirts! Thankfully, the Bellboy, pointed us in the direction of the 'Holiday Hotel' a cheap alternative, (a bit like Holiday Inn). We were so grateful, as we could not afford the 900Y per night price (about 80 sterling for a double ...

 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 ...

... SIMON..I just wanted to say thanks again for taking me in. You saved me a lot of money...I can only imagine how broke I would be if I had to stay this whole time at the HOLIDAY INN!!!!!! Heres the link to some pictures. CLICK HERE TO SEE SHANGHAI ...

... look at the furniture exhibit, but frankly, I've seen much more impressive furniture at the Chinese Cultural Center at the Chinatown Holiday Inn in San Francisco. The « Room withing a Room » exhibit there featured beds which were enclosed in a ...

... ) to meet us. We waited and waited - nobody! Surrounded by thousands of non-English speaking Chinese, we headed to the nearby Holiday Inn, and managed to get the receptionist to try our contact numbers for us. No answer!!! We then got a taxi to the ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...