200040 Travel Guide
Boutique Hotels
Ivy Shanghai is Red, White and Boutique All Over
September 23, 2008 at 1:22 PM | 0 Comments
Seems like the Chinese are really catching on to the idea of the boutique hotel, and in Shanghai another one's just opened up. Ivy Shanghai is a 46-roomer built into the former Jiangning Cinema, one of the first cinemas built there in the 1950s when cinemas were finally allowed to be built! The area where the cinema screen used to be is now an atrium for guests to hang out it, including a coffee bar and a WiFi area.
Reader Reviews
Reader Review :: The URBN Hotel in Shanghai
July 31, 2008 at 12:08 PM | 0 Comments
Every so often we feature a hotel review from one of our readers that we feel should be shared with the rest of you dear hotel guests. These reviews are highlighted because they are timely, about cool hotels in cool places and are relatively level-headed. Think you can submit one just like this? Send it in. Now, we present you with reader Eric's review of the URBN Hotel in Shanghai which he first heard about on HotelChatter. Enjoy.
I had just ended a long camping trip in the South of China, and arrived in Shanghai with no reservation. After this long trip, sleeping in tents and hostels, I craved a night or two of comfort.
I researched a few of Shanghai's upscale hotels on the internet and decided to pass on the luxurious monstrosities. Instead, I found the URBN Hotel, a new eco-friendly boutique establishment. Having enjoyed nature for the past couple weeks, I felt that a carbon-neutral hotel was appropriate for my next couple nights.
Hotel Awards
Hilton Shanghai Gets "Most Trusted" Award
December 20, 2006 at 1:54 PM | 0 Comments
We haven't revealed our Best and Worst Hotel Awards of 2006 yet, (that comes next week) but already hotels are snapping up awards here and there.
The Hilton Shanghai was recently voted "Most Trusted Hotel in China" by the Reader's Digest Trusted Brands Awards 2006. Here's some PR gibberish:
One of the first five-star international hotels to operate in China, Hilton Shanghai belongs to a lineage of fine hotels with over 150,000 team members in 80 countries worldwide. Experience has taught Hilton what matters to the traveler is a variety of great facilities and services....Judges recognized Hilton Shanghai for having the guest at the heart of its business and deploying and managing its resources to effectively meet the needs of its customer base.
Voters for this had to choose hotels that had the highest marks in six categories: quality, value, innovation, trustworthiness, credible image and understanding customer needs. However, we're guessing that hotel technology doesn't play at all into this award as the Hilton Shanghai had poor WiFi service back in 2004. We're hoping they have fixed this and the coffee since then.
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