Sofitel Hyland Shanghai

... JW Marriott Shanghai on the busy Nan Jing Road another stunner! Good value for money were both the Sofitel Hyland also on Nan Jing Road and Renaissance Shanghai Pudong Hotel. The Yu Yuan Gardens - a tranquil place, a traditional Chinese Garden, featuring ...

... bunch of leaves on the bottom. I have my suspicions that it is actually moonshine. But sure enough we arrive at the Sofitel Shanghai Hyland Hotel safe and sound. After taking some much need showers and brushing our teeth we headed to a cab to go to the ...

... to say it again...WOW! Combine the amount of people in Tokyo times 3 plus the amount of cars in Beijing and you get Shanghai. Seriously, I can't describe how many people there are here. While we were waiting for our room to be ready, Tami and I discovered ...

... us up early and we took the Maglev train to the airport.  The Maglev is the world's fastest train, we went 431 kph (250+ mph).  The train ride lasted 10 minutes, very cool.  Flight from Shanghai to Beijing...see next entry (Beijing #2)...

we arrived about 10am into pundong international airport,heaps of blackheads we were picked up the hotel transfer,it took around 45mins to get to the hotel....lots of road work happening,because of the expo in 2010,bumpy as ride.we quickly checked in ...