General: Shanghai

Waking up in an incredibly comfortable giant bed under an unfeasibly incapacitating duvet at 7.50am when you are still slightly jetlagged and are supposed to be meeting a human metronome in the hotel foyer for your airport transfer at 8am is, ordinarily, the precursor to frantic ungainly lolloping around a hotel room, checking every drawer just one more time just to absolutely convince yourself you didn't hide anything astonishingly valuable underneath ...
...exhausting when you've spent the past 2 nights in a suite with 5 rooms. The flat in which I live only has a total of 6 rooms (7 including the 'magic cupboard'). I was checking in drawers that I'd only found whilst looking through other drawers. Suitably satisfied that I never owned a valuable anyway, we managed to be behind elevator doors on time and performing the self-frisk dance confirming passport and ticket availability before our final voyage ...

Muffin_the_Mule 22.06.2009 · Read full review
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So a couple of summers back my friend a native from shanghai who moved to the UK when she was a child asked me if I would like to accompany her to shanghai over the summer..china immedietly conjured up images of red silk dresses, smiling ladies, delicious food and something very exotic and different... I had basically no idea what I was agreeing to when I was at the travel agents booking my tickets and sorting out my visa (the agents are very friendly ...
...in almost any chinese travel agency in china town, london). Im not sure what I expected.. I had seen some pictures of the famous shanghai skyline.. but was still awed by the sheer height of some of the skyscrapers and we ended up staying in a flat on the 32nd floor - not fun for those with vertigo like yours truly.. but it was lovely nonetheless and in the middle of a boiling summer it was lovely to walk out into the balcony and feel the strong winds. ...

sarima 24.08.2009 (09.10.2009) · Read full review
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Well here I am at the end of another great holiday which this time is in Shanghai. The first thing that strikes me is there is not too much difference between Shanghai and any other major city in the western world. The place hums with life almost 24 hours a day. Its only once you start to scratch under the surface of the place do you see the difference between western and eastern life. Arriving at the Shanghai Pudong international airport we were ...
...The time taken to get through customs was very quick especially compared to some of the time it has taken me when I have visited the states. The bags were there shortly after exiting customs and all in all it took us a total of 20 odd minutes from leaving the plane to leaving the airport. We had an advantage by being met by my old school friend who guided us to the nearest taxi to be whisked away to the centre of town. The journey time was around ...

sjday 25.08.2004 · Read full review
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I visited China and Shanghai for the first time this year. I found it to be a schizophrenic, wonderful, baffling, facinating city. To a western eye I found the general public to be rude and pushy but gradually it dawned on me that they treated everyone like that ! Imagine first day of the sales and the rush and the arguments to get the best bargains, now imagine that to be daily life for the lift, the bus, to pay for the underground etc and you get ...
...countries we would expect to queue in a line, queue in a rugby scrum and you will soon be like a local ! Having said that I found on an individual basis the people to be kind and interested in why the foreigner ( me ) was in their city. At least those that can speak English. As yet it is not yet widely spoken in the city. If you stick to the big tourist attractions then somebody will speak English but maybe not fluently. Although the city is making ...

ultras67 18.08.2000 · Read full review
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Shanghai, is a very beautiful city in China. The people are polite and well-educated. I was there during Christmas last year and i feel very cold. probably i was from the tropical climate region, so was not so used to the cold weather. Siu lon bao is steam buns with stuffed meat and crab essense. The "siu lon bao" is in the yu garden district is very delicious. If you choose to eat on the street, you can line up and pay $10 Renminbi (RMB) for several ...
...can go up to the second floor restaurant and order the buns. You can enjoy it when a cup of tea. It will cost you around $20 RMB. Ok, if you are still not happy, you can sit back, relax, have a cup of tea with the buns, and a spectacular view, it will cost you $30+ RMB. **$1.00 EURO = $11.1420 RMB Shanghai has a lot of beautiful European style buildings. A lot of buildings are converted into restaurants or clubs. I went to have dinner in a classy ...

heeheehaahaa 02.12.2004 (09.12.2004) · Read full review
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Having experienced New York recently for the first time, I found Shanghai to be it's Asian equivalent. It is an extremely large city, with marvellous big buildings and a pretty good atmosphere. Reading the other reviews, which were written in 2000 and found Shanghai to be difficult for tourists, I didn't really find that. Shanghai was adapting to tourism and western cultures throughout the last few years and I didn't really encounter that many problems. ...
...main export centre and there's plenty of business going in. This has led to an influx of westerners who are working out there and there is a niche developing. The people are very friendly. Most speak very little English, but it wasn't to difficult to develop an understanding with people you needed contact with, like taxi drivers, hotel staff etc. The younger generations in China are embracing our cultures as the country is relaxing from its communist ...

nicol01 04.02.2004 · Read full review
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I have just returned from a holiday in China and spent two days in Shanghai. What a city where the old and the new sit side by side. Millions of Dollars have been spent in recent years upgrading the city with new homes and businesses with skyscraper after skyscraper. A fantastic new bridge spans the Yellow river where our spaghetti junction pales into insignificance compared with their huge 'noodle' junction. The pace of expansion is exhilarating. ...

REG 30.11.2000 · Read full review
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The first time you go there ,the expression of it would be crowded and busy ,shanghai is very important in chinese business ,but I don't think it is a good place to visit ,if yo want to nvest ,it is a brilliant place ,they get somany foreign companies there,you can have a good circumstances ,but for visit I won't go there ,they are not typical chinese style ,and the people is too too crowded ,the weather is that hot(in may ) .if you want a city break ...

yangyang 17.08.2000 · Read full review
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