Shanghai Hotel
January 30th, 2005After my Hong Kong course ended, I flew to Shanghai and stayed a few days. I am a complete sap for the nostalgia of “old Shanghai,” so I stayed in the hotel pictured below. It’s a few blocks from the Bund, on Jiangxi Road and Fuzhou Rd (within Walking distance of the shopping on Nanjing Rd. and the bookstores on Fuzhou Rd.). It is now called the Metropole or “New City Hotel” (Xin Cheng Fandian) in Chinese. It’s at an interesting intersection where two identical towers and a couple of smaller art deco buildings face each other, with concave shapes fronting the street. The room was RMB 498 a night. It was spacious and clean with all the expected amenities. In fact, they provided free broadband internet access.
The morass of lines in the forefront of the picture are for electric busses, which still cruise the streets of Shanghai, making much less noise than non-electric ones.
