Zhongxiang Hotel Shanghai

Location is …. nowhere. All around is under construction. There is no even good place for taxi or car. The main entrance is on the back of the hotel and in front of the railway station north square. Metro line nr 3,4 are located approx. 200 m from the hotel but the subway entrance could be a huge challenge for many people.
Metro line nr 1 which can connect to People’s square and interchange to line 2 to Hongqiao and Pudong is quite far, about 300-400 m from the hotel.

Staff couldn’t speak English almost at all, you will be happy to find someone who can understand you.

Breakfast- it is the disaster!!! The one and only eatable thing was egg omelet. They didn’t even serve fresh pastries. The whole breakfast buffet was designed form very strange dishes- pumpkin cakes and noodles, even Chinese people didn’t choose them. Coffee had a taste of gasoline mixed with vinegar. The carpet at the restaurant looks no cleaned since last 50 years.
It is also very hard to find clean fork and knife, little spoon you will not find at all.

Room: I used Superior room which was not 22 sqm, it has in fact no more than 15 sqm. Room was quite well furnished but very dirty, carpet, bed linen was not clean enough for 4 star hotel. There is ton of dust on each corner. Bed was hard as a stone, I’ve visited many Chinese hotels but this bed was the hardest ever. It is impossible to have a good rest there. Bathroom looks nice but only the first impression is so optimistic, you can easy find black mold and dirties on the top of bathtub, crack of wash basin, dirty walls- and any good impression is over…. like a soap bubble.

Overall experience: avoid this place, there are a lot of other hotels nearby.