Shanghai Andersen Culture Hotel - The Bund

“Saat sen, mitä maksat”

Luettuani muita arvosteluja pelkäsin pahempaa. Näin ei kuitenkaan ollut.  1. Access - Noin 5 minuutin kävelymatkan päässä Sichuan Road North -asemalta # 5 -linjaan. Helppo löytää suuren risteyksen kulmasta.  2. Lähikaupat - Paljon lähellä olevia.  3. Check - in - Kuten muut arvostelut, henkilökun... lisää

Luettuani muita arvosteluja pelkäsin pahempaa. Näin ei kuitenkaan ollut.  1. Access - Noin 5 minuutin kävelymatkan päässä Sichuan Road North -asemalta # 5 -linjaan. Helppo löytää suuren risteyksen kulmasta.  2. Lähikaupat - Paljon lähellä olevia.  3. Check - in - Kuten muut arvostelut, henkilökunta ei ollut kovin "miellyttävä" länsimaisia ​​standardeja ehkä, mutta he vain näyttivät toimivan kuin kiina minulle. Meidän passeemme heitettiin takaisin meille, mutta huomasin muun tyyppisiä houkutuksia tai tavaroita ja rahaa muissa ravintoloissa ja kaupoissa, joten ajattelin, että se oli vain osa kulttuuria. Yritimme sekä englantia että japanilaista turhaan, mutta meillä ei todellakaan ollut mitään kysymyksiä, joten siellä ei ole mitään huolta.  4. Huone - Huoneeseen 607. Matto tarvitsi hyvän imuroinnin ja ehdottomasti oli puhdistettava. Kynällä kirjoitetussa sisäänkäynnissä seinälle oli joitain graffitteja. Taustakuva oli vanhentunut ja se oli korvattava. Odotin kuitenkin tätä ennen kuin tulin siellä, joten se ei todellakaan ollut yllätys, eikä se ollut kuin huone hajosi. Kylpyhuone oli puhdas. Runsaasti mukavuuksia. Oli hiustenkuivaaja, mutta se ei ollut kylpyhuoneessa, joten ajattele sitä aarteenetsinä. Oli runsaasti kuumaa vettä. Levyt olivat puhtaita. Pyyhkeet olivat puhtaat, mutta hieman reikää. TV oli jonkinlainen pay-per-view-kiintolevyasema ilman paikallisten kanavien merkkejä. Vaikka emme olleet siellä katsomassa televisiota, on mukavaa nähdä paikallisia ohjelmia joskus ja vain olla taustamelua, kun valmistaudutaan sänkyyn tai valmistamiseen aamulla. Kaiken kaikkiaan se oli miellyttävä oleskelua. Jos odotat jotain, jäädä 5 tähden hotelliin. Jos tarvitset vain ihmisarvoisen oleskelun, tämä paikka tekee sinulle hienosti.

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“Ok for purpose, I wouldn't return though.”

I was staying at this hotel for a period of 6 weeks for a summer school I was attending at a nearby university. The hotel was fit for purpose location wise, near the university, not a far walk from The Bund, short taxi ride to Nanjing Road and around a 7 minute walk to the nearest Metro station (... lisää

I was staying at this hotel for a period of 6 weeks for a summer school I was attending at a nearby university. The hotel was fit for purpose location wise, near the university, not a far walk from The Bund, short taxi ride to Nanjing Road and around a 7 minute walk to the nearest Metro station (North Sichuan). There were also some nice-ish restaurants in the same road, little convenience stores too. The hotel itself though... First impressions were not great. No one behind the reception desk spoke any kind of English or any language for that matter. I believe it took around half an hour to explain who I was (and why I was here -??). In the end, I was gestured to use Google Translator (this carried on for the entire six weeks) to explain that I just wanted to check in. Eventually I was given a room key card etc. I could only guess where my room was by the number. I had two large suitcases with me and hand luggage and I wasn't offered any help or assistance by anybody to my room (even though there were assistants in the lobby to do so) they just watch me struggle and squeeze into the smallest elevator ever. Eventually I found my room...phew. Not. The key card wouldn't work. Back downstairs again with the cases. I was given the wrong room. The whole palaver again. Eventually I got into my room. The room was tidy, cleanish, quite large, a comfy large bed and the expected modcons. The bathroom was roomy, a large shower and toiletires given and topped up daily with fresh towels etc. The fridge wasn't working in my room. I went down the next day to reception to ask for it to be fixed etc. This was probably more trouble than it was worth. But I saw it as essential to have a working fridge, in a 40c heat and for a duration of 6 weeks. Again, prompted to the Google Translator. I'm not sure if it was the translator or them...but they couldn't understand WHY I wanted the fridge to work. I was actually asked if I wanted it to store clothes in?? Anyway, this actually lasted a week. Everyday, yes it will be fixed. Yes you have a cold fridge now. No I don't. Eventually I was offered a new room (conveniently the room next door). Again, tidy and clean (so I thought - only to discover a used sanitary towel/pad under a bed side table - nobody seemed to care about this at all at reception despite showing them a photo etc). The room however was then fine and I stayed here for the entire six weeks. The AC unit in both rooms was very good and cooled the room down very quick. With the room came breakfast. I think I only went to breakfast around three or four times in my entire stay. There were no cold beverages to offer, only boiling hot water and milk. The website advertised at the time a continental breakfast with fruit etc. Here was just fried rice, noodles, bits of bones and dried vegetables. No fruit to be seen. I suppose their understanding of a continental breakfast was sweet dry bread with a deep fried egg. The lady who cooked the eggs did not understand hand gestures at all. I thought it would be universal that one finger would signify 'one'. Obviously not, I was given two and three on one occasion. The eggs were cooked in a frying pan that looked like it hadn't been washed in about 50 years, it was all charred and burnt bits all over it. There was enough oil in there to feed around 60 people and the eggs were well and truly over cooked. The lady was nice enough etc but shouldn't be cooking eggs. Eventually I decided the breakfast was inedible. I believe at the end of the six weeks, out of the group of 18, only 2 or 3 were actually still having breakfast everyday. To top everything else as well. I know it may be custom in China, but for receptionists, security, lobby assistants cleaners etc to stand around in front of guests and just spit in bins, outside the front of the hotel and into plant pots is just very rude and disgusting. In general, we found the rooms to be OK and a reasonable standard. Cleaners who came round the rooms were nice and pleasant, service on reception was awful and we were treated like something on the bottom of their shoe most of the time and everything always seemed so difficult and hard to do the simplest task. I would stay at this hotel as a last resort as I know what to expect, but there are plenty of others in the local area. Hilton on the Bund for example is very nice with a fantastic roof top bar 'The View'.

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