Independent, Putuo Hotels

The location of the hotel is very convenient, is close to a metro station (Zhenping station line 7, 3 and 4), and it is very easy to move in Shanghai using metro either from any of the main train stations or the airport. The staff is very kind, they will help you by writting any address in Chinese, in case you want to take a taxi. Our room was clean and with most of the facilities you will find in a 4 star hotel. Cons: there is only 1 floor non-smoking 22, and we spent more than 2 hours to get a room on that floor, after arguing with them and changing the room 2 times we got a lesser category room (twin room) on that floor instead of the double room we booked. They will make you sign a paper where they are saying that they are giving a suite but came on... it is soo naive, but any way we took the room. Even though this is non smoking floor still some will smoke there in front of the elevator, and they don't care, at least you dont feel that terrible cigarrete smell in the room, a little bit in few ocassions but way better than any other floor. The breakfast is a chinnese buffet, so there is a lot of food but oily and fried, 1 or 2 options western style, so dont keep high expectations, and try to arrive early, not because of the food, but the mess, people leaving will make a mess and the staff from the hotel doesn't care too much about cleaning. You can get healthy food in an other place.

The carpet looked like it had not been cleaned in quite a long time. Luckily they provided slippers because I did not want to walk around in my bare feet. The bed was clean and very comfortable. The shower was hard to contain the water - got all over the floor. They did not provide shampoo. The restaurant in the lobby wasn't very good. Compared to our hotel in Beijing (Double Happiness) this was quite a disappointment.