Mansion Hotel Shanghai

... and Uzbekistan. Highlights and points of wisdom as follows: China: - Hefei was a fantastic place. 3hr train ride west of Shanghai, hefei isn't a touristy place at all. Chilled out, modest night life and really good food. I was lucky enough to spend ...

... ;At eleven we reached Shanghai station. After a small scale adventure and after a subway and a taxi drive we were at White Mansion Hotel. We booked it earlier and it cost 22euros per night. Very fine hotel and even nicer room up in the ...

...   a 3 day pass in Australia, had selected an hotel near the subway, and were ready to experience what Shanghai had to offer.   We arrived early the first morning at the Expo entry gates. It was still 45 minutes before they ...

... and the whole tunnel is this crazy light show kind of thing. Actually pretty lame, but interesting.  Also went to the Shanghai Ocean Aquarium, which was really neat. They have all these tubes that you can walk through under the aquariums so that ...

3/26/2007 Shanghai Wonderful Shanghai! We didn't need a hotel, but we had booked and prepaid for the Shanghai Broadway Mansions Hotel, an old architecture hotel (western architecture from the old days), and the hotel was just 5 minutes from the ship. We ...

... and University...  then we will meet up with all of our Shanghai Student hosts, a few of their parents and greet some new students at the Morning Shanghai Restaurant. ... and then off we go with Jevin to Ningbo -- and maybe, or maybe not to Hangzhou. ...

... ....SHUT IT!!!!   Shanghai was great. We loved it but it took me by surprise. I idiotically expected the old shanghai - locals in triangle hats, cycling around a labyrinth of cobbled alley ways with a port of trading, shouting, colour and history. ...

... so I opted for the Jinmao Tower instead, which was much cheaper and the viewing deck a bit higher. Magnificent views of megacity Shanghai from here! There's another great view here, but now on the inside, because here you can look down to the lobby of ...

... area. It is tragic and sad but I fear largely irreversible at this point. Much of the new construction in the Shanghai region appears to be modeled after western development but on a grander scale. The homogenization and modernization of the world ...

... having breakfast at six in the morning, we got a good night's sleep. Once at the train station in Shanghai, we had to find a way to get to our hotel, of which we only had the address and name (in English, not in Mandarin). The taxi drivers were trying ...

... Covered Bridge in Taishun   Lunch   PM   Visit: Lishui City   21:49 board train to Shanghai   Overnight: Soft Sleeper Class on Train   October 3rd: Shanghai   05:06 Arrive at Shanghai Railway Station, ...

Greetings from Shanghai! ...We adopted the Frankie Method of time travel & arrived in good shape to enjoy our introduction to Shanghai! ( The FM essentially involves staying up all night, sleeping for the majority of the 14 hour flight and - wham! - ...

... . Les autres ont quand à eux visité la vieille ville, le marché aux antiquités et le marché spécial touristes de Shanghai. S épuisée est rentrée en taxi et comme à l'habitude la soirée s'est terminée sur la terrasse du facétieux Oliver devant ...

... cake so I was ok with it haha. Anyway, enough about school! Last night me and my gang of teachers ventured out to two of Shanghai's most well known sights, Nanjing Road and The Bund. To get there I took my very first subway ride! Here though they are very ...

... light-headed afterwards, so we had a bit of a rest before whiling the evening away in a little bar near the hotel. Our last full day in Shanghai was my birthday! The sun was shining again, which was lovely. We went out for a birthday brunch to a ...