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Bad Coffee, bad wifi at Hilton Shanghai

Where: No. 250 Hua Shan Road, Shanghai, China

December 9, 2004 at 7:17 AM | 1 Comment

Isn't the idiom all the tea in China? Well I guess there is a reason folks don't say "all the coffee in China".

Oh yeah, and it sounds like this five star hotel is using rabbit ears on their wireless router. Suppose we should be glad they offer free wifi at all, but wasn't there a survey that said no wifi is better than bad wifi?

In any event, here is what a recent Hilton Shanghai guest had to say about the place:

The current Hilton in Shanghai is one of the oldest five-star hotels in the city, so my expectations were pretty low when I tried to do some blogging on a WTO-conference today. Amazingly enough the conference room offered wifi. It was a poor one, inter-touch, since the signal was so weak it often fell away. It was for free and to be honest, I would never have paid for such a lousy service. But always nice to check the RSS-reader and email when the speakers are too boring. The coffee really sucked: so much for a five-star treatment.