Shanghai Airlines Travel Hotel

The shuttle bus service runs from 5:30am to 1:30am the next morning, not 24/7 unfortunately !

The hotel is quite large and it is about 10-15 minutes by car from the airport. The hotel reception staff is very nice and speaks English also in the middle of the night. The restaurant staffs speaks no English but is very friendly and they use a translation machine and this works out pretty well. The hotel restaurants seems quite good, I did not take dinner but they have some buffet. Looked good. There is also a small shop in the hotel where you can buy snacks, drinks etc. Mainly caters to Chinese so lots of Noodles and things like that but there is a shop. The hotel room has quite some space, altough a little outdated the stuff inside the room everything worked and all is there. Good shower.

On the map it looks like it is possible to walk to the hotel from the subway. I tried. In about 20 minutes I was very close, maybe it was 500 metres more but then you end up at some semi-highway and it is not possible to continue the walk. So the hotel is not easily accesible by metro so take a taxi from the subway station. I would avoid the touts who are at the station offering taxi services but continue walk a bit untill you reach the main road, there are taxi's waiting there. The hotel's first shuttle bus to the airport in the morning is at 04.20. I think there should be one every hour maybe also at 03.20 or 02.20. Now I had to take a taxi and in the night they don't use a meter so you have to pay more. It is not a big problem but still it is worth mentioning for those who need to leave to the airport before 04.20. The WiFi only works if you have a Chinese phone number that's a bit strange for an international hotel. The hotel staff helps you with it and they can fix it with their own phone but still it is strange that you can't just use it as an international traveler in an international airlines hotel.

Location

No internet. Poor breakfast

Like the fact that it was close to the airport to kill my 16 layover in shanghai

didn't even want to take a visit of the city because 99% percent of the Chinese does not know any English at all and very rude. Even with my hotel staff, only 1 out of the hotel crew understand english. And signage and display are all in chinese, it's not western friendly at all