Name: Lan Tian Hotel
Address: 2200 Huangxing Road (Huangxing Lu) 315010 Shanghai,Huangxing Road (Huangxing Lu), Shanghai, Shanghai, Shanghai, 315010, China
Rating: 9

Elevator/lift

Reception desk

General

Bathrobe

Slippers

Rooms

Cafe

Restaurant

Meals

In-room internet

Internet

Beauty and wellness

Location

At the hotel

Room amenities

Shiguang Road

Yangpu

Oriental Pearl Tower

Shanghai Natural Wild Insect Kingdom

Shanghai International Convention Centre

Jin Mao Tower

The Bund

Shanghai Natural History Museum

Nanjing Road Shopping District

Shanghai Museum of Pen and Ink

Yu Yuan Garden

Yuyuan Bazaar

Old Town God Temple Snack Street

Shanghai Science and Technology Museum

South Yunnan Road

People's Square

Shanghai Museum

Shanghai Art Museum

Taikang Road

Jing An Temple

Shanghai Botanical Garden

Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport

Shanghai Pudong International Airport

Airport Pudong

Lan Tian Hotel

Shanghai

This hotel is OK. We had a guide arranged to give us a lift into the city centre on the first day, but there is a Metro station  quite close. The Metro is easier to use than you think, but the journey is over half an hour, mind you it took us over an hour by car!
The breakfast was magnificent. The bed was comfortable (for a change!). It was surprising and annoying not to find WiFi in the room. BigMon Traveller has really nailed the review of this hotel.

Long way out of city

I was staying in Shanghai for 2 days for a business trip, and we had our colleague booked for us since there was a discount. We had liked the environment until we found out wifi is only available in the lobby. As an international city I would expect wifi should be everywhere in the hotel.

The rooms are very clean with all the necessity included. Air conditioning worked well enough. The hotel is 5-minute walking distance away from three malls beside the elevated road and 10-minute away from the metro line #10, which is on the same line as Nanjing Road, Yuyuan and Xintiandi Station. Going those areas by metro should take around 15 minutes.

Their breakfast is good, with various dishes, as well as noodles, fresh fried eggs and buns. If they have wifi installed in their rooms, I would definitely return for my vacation in Shanghai.

Very Clean and Great Breakfast

We stayed 3 nights here on a tour by Magical China.  The hotel is fine, and we had the best breakfast on tour, but the rooms were very warm, never going below 25 degrees. Having discussed this with the staff on Reception, we discovered they turn it off at night!  A bit of a con when you book expecting a cool room at night.  Also, the hotel is about 45 minutes by metro to the centre of Shanghai, even longer by car.

Beware.  A long way out and poor air conditioning

We stayed here for eight days (two separate visits) seeing a family member attending Fudan University for a semester.  The hotel is NOT close to downtown and the Bund, so don't believe the other review that says it is.  But we knew that up front. We chose it because it's relatively close to Fudan and that has worked out fine.  And it’s close to the Metro (the awesome and cheap subway).

Here's what's good: 1) Breakfast is big and varied (coffee is lukewarm, but a minor annoyance).  2) Staff are all very nice.  Almost no one speaks English, but there seems to always be one person at the main desk who can…sort of.  3) Room is large enough and acceptably clean.  4) Nice towels, accessories, and shower.  Oh, and here’s a tip for the shower (at least the one in our room): if you want the water to come out of the shower instead of the spigot, reach underneath the area where you turn on the water and pull DOWN on the black ring that is there.  The housekeeping staff had to show me that one.

Here’s what’s bad: 1) Air conditioning is woefully set at an uncomfortable temperature.  Usually around 27C degrees.  That’s about 80-81F.  Too darn hot in my opinion.  We played with the thermostat as much as we could, but have come to the understanding that at many (most?) hotels in China, the temperature is set centrally by someone else.  The thermostat is just for show except to get the fan higher (and I guess you could make it warmer if you wanted).  2) The safe deposit box in your room isn’t attached to anything.  Their literature says they provide a safe deposit box for the rooms and they do (and their literature says there’s wifi in the room, but there’s not).  But a piece of paper inside the box says it isn’t a safe deposit box and that you should put important things at the front desk.  Sigh.  Would it be so hard to drill some holes and attach the box to the wardrobe?  Sheesh. 3) NO WIFI in your room!  You can plug in an Ethernet cord to your computer and log on to their version of the internet, but (and I’m not over-stating this), you get logged off every 10 minutes and have to log back on.  Really.  You can get WIFI in the lobby and restaurant.  4) The bar is dark, deserted, and kind of foreboding.  We almost never saw anyone in there.  We never went into it although we would have liked to if it had been more inviting.  I don’t know why they don’t have music or some inviting signs.  Weird. 5) Virtually no Western channels on TV.  No BBC or CNN like we saw in Beijing and Xian.  If you’re lucky, you’ll find a movie in English with Chinese subtitles.  Maybe a Food Channel.
Did I discuss the air conditioning and other issues with the staff?  No, but only because communication is sometimes so difficult.  We learned on our two week travel around China that even on the two air flights we took on Chinese carriers (Beijing to Xian and Xian to Shanghai), the temperature was amazingly high – at least by Western standards.  We think the Chinese may just be more used to warmer temperatures (and maybe saving some energy).

Would I recommend this hotel?  Well, maybe, but only for the hardy traveler.  If you’re a Westerner and expect a place where most everyone speaks English, you probably want a better known chain – Hilton or Hyatt.  But Lan Tian worked OK for us.   I’m not sure I’d stay here again.  If I need to come back to Fudan U, I’ll look for something more Western-friendly.

Well, OK.  But not for everyone.

We stayed for one night during an organised trip round China and then returned a few nights later for our last night in China. The location was OK – it was a few minutes’ walk away from Wujiaochang on Line 10 of the Metro which is only a few of stops down to East Nanjing Road. There were big shopping malls underneath and round the other side of a big roundabout 2 minutes’ away from the hotel, but they were quite expensive. There seemed to be plenty of restaurants in the area on the other side of the roundabout but we never got to use them because we went into the centre of Shanghai in the evening. 
The lobby and reception area is huge and check-in was fairly efficient by Chinese hotel standards. Few staff in the hotel can speak any English but we managed to make ourselves understood when necessary. 
Bedrooms are large and comfortable. The showers were excellent but I was the only one in our group who worked out how to turn them on – you need to divert the water from the bath taps by screwing a knob downwards and then turn a second knob further up round to divert the water from the hand-held shower to the big shower head. There’s a glass partition between the bedroom and bathroom, but if you don’t want to watch your partner’s ablutions, there is a blind. 
As is common with many decent Chinese hotels, toiletries were abundant, and there were also bath robes and slippers, an iron and ironing board and an electric kettle with coffee and tea. There’s an LCD TV with about 50 Chinese stations to choose from, and one English language news channel, CCTV News. Plenty of Chinese/Australian and European type plug sockets. Beds are big and comfortable.
Breakfast was a good selection of international and Chinese dishes with plenty of choices of fruit. It was probably the best breakfast we had in our three weeks in China. We didn’t use the restaurant otherwise. There’s a large bar on the ground floor and it closed fairly early (about 11pm), they don't do cocktails but they did do large pots of Pu-er tea which went down well. Language was a bit of an issue, but not insurmountable.

Excellent couple of nights sleep, comfortable

We booked this hotel because of its location  the hotel is close to shops and restaurants, metro (Wujiaochang) and Fudan University. As always in Chinese hotels, we expected the service to be the simplest service, but this place made a huge impression on us. Communication was a little difficult, as only some staff speak English, but this was expected, so everything was fine. We booked a luxury to be sure that we would get the best, compared to the standard room (Wujiaochang) and Fudan University.

Suddenly good hotel.

We had chosen this hotel because it was close to shopping and dining areas, a subway station (Wujiaochang) and Fudan University. We had expected little service by the standards of Chinese hotels, but were impressed by our stay. The understanding was a bit difficult because only a few staff spoke English, but we had expected and got along well. We had booked the Deluxe Suite to be quite sure that we would get accommodation above the very simple Chinese level; what we did bring was a very large suite with a very different living area, a large bathroom, a modern separate bathroom and a dining room with a free lunch, which you could eat in the morning at both the East Wing and in the East Wing. But the hotel has only a few rooms, but the kitchen and the bathroom are just 10 minutes away from the East Wing. The hotel has a few rooms, but the kitchen and the bathroom are just 10 minutes away from the East Wing, and the kitchen and the kitchen are just a few minutes away from the East Wing.

Unexpectedly Good

We were on an organized Chinese trip to this hotel. It was the first hotel of our vacation and by far the best. The rooms were spacious, and the bed was wide and comfortable. All the little extras were great: panties, toiletries, morning coats, etc. The breakfast was also excellent; you could choose between a variety of Chinese and European dishes. The staff were very friendly and helpful, and if I ever returned to Shanghai, I would definitely settle down here again.

Lan Tian Hotel

Main amenities of the hotel

Location

Available rooms

Location

Description of the hotel

What other amenities are there?

Policies

Check-in terms and conditions

Additional information

Payment