Name: Shanghai Huhua Hotel
Address: No. 368 Jianchuan Road, Shanghai, Shanghai, Shanghai, 200241, China
Rating: 7

Air conditioning

Elevator/lift

Heating

Television in lobby

Fire Extinguisher

Reception desk

General

Non-smoking rooms

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Cable TV

Minibar

Slippers

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Laundry

Luggage storage

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Telephone

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Parking

Fax and copy machine

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Shanghai Botanical Garden

Taikang Road

Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport

Jing An Temple

Yuyuan Bazaar

Old Town God Temple Snack Street

Shanghai Museum

Yu Yuan Garden

South Yunnan Road

People's Square

Shanghai Science and Technology Museum

Shanghai Art Museum

Shanghai Natural History Museum

Shanghai Museum of Pen and Ink

Nanjing Road Shopping District

The Bund

Jin Mao Tower

Disneyland Shanghai

Shanghai International Convention Centre

Oriental Pearl Tower

Shanghai Natural Wild Insect Kingdom

Airport Pudong

Shanghai Pudong International Airport

Shanghai Huhua Hotel

Shanghai

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canal-view

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garden-view

golf-view

harbour-view

inland-view

lake-view

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ocean-front

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park-view

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partial-sea-view

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with-view

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basement

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not-guaranteed

wired-internet-access

smoking

sauna

duplex

safe

mini-bar

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breakfast-for-2

pets-allowed

wi-fi

kitchen

This hotel has great potential and the management must act on its potentials and opportunities and overcome a few glaring bottlenecks and easily rectified housekeeping glitches. You have everything except a little tightening up your management systems! Best of luck!

When There to Meet Business Colleagues 

If you need to be in Minhang, and especially if you need to visit the Zizhu Industrial Park or somewhere nearby, this might be your best option. On the positive side, the rooms are very big and comfortable, the wifi worked fine for me, and the breakfast buffet, although Chinese style, was plentiful and varied.

However, the hotel's idea of cleanliness is limited to a few wipes. There are no mini-safes or mini-fridges in the room. You are far from any public transport. It is not much cheaper than equally good central hotels, and if you want to be in Shanghai itself, you will find you spend at least as much on taxi fares in and out of town as you save. 

Worst of all, the kind of people who stay in this hotel ignore the fact that -- as is posted all over the hotel -- it is illegal to smoke in the hotel. There were cigarette butts in the elevators and in the lobby, and many parts of the hotel stank of cigarette smoke.

The staff are friendly and try to be helpful. I speak Chinese and had no problems. My colleagues do not speak Chinese and found it more awkward

Only if you need to be in Minhang

This hotel is in the Minhang District, so while it is in Shanghai, it's a long way from the main part of Shanghai.  My representative in the country picked this hotel as "the best one in the neighborhood" where I was doing business.  Overall the hotel amenities are pretty decent.  The place was generally clean and well maintained.  The one other review I read said it smelled of cigarette smoke, but I did not experience it.  I did smell some in he lobby and elevators occasionally, but my room (fifth floor) had no cigarette smell.  My rep reserved a suite for me (the hotel is cheap by western standards) which had a living area, a second toilet area, and a mini bar.  The living area was very sparse, so I spent no time in there at all.  I didn't need the second toilet either.  The mini bar had a fridge and a pot for boiling water.  I brought some instant oatmeal and coffee for breakfast so this was really useful.  There is a refrigerator if you need it.  You walk down a short hall where the main bathroom and closet are into the bedroom.  The bedroom is large and - mostly- quiet with a king sized bed, desk and sitting chair.  It's plenty roomy.  The bed is hard as a rock, but after a long day of work it was fine for sleeping.  The TV has one channel in English (but it's a Japanese station) so you can hear "some" English on TV.  The hotel staff speaks almost NO English, so be prepared for a lot of hand waiving unless you speak Chinese.  The room was pretty clean and you have the option for fresh towels and sheets daily - (as done in the US - hang the towel to keep, etc.).  The hotel provides a couple bottles of water and it's easily available at the many surrounding stores, so I didn't drink the water.  It seemed clean enough though.  Shower was good and and always had enough hot water.  Internet was VERY good.  My room had an individual wireless modem in it directly connected to the ethernet and I was able to skype call the US with virtually no bandwidth problems at all.  There was a safe, but it didn't work.  They say you can get a clothes iron, but there isn't one in the room.  My rep brought me one.
If you go out the front of the hotel and head right and then right again you will walk to a street that has LOTS of restaurants on it and also convenience stores.  On the corner is a shopping center - in the basement is a large grocery store.  Going right again at the major intersection will take you along a street with may restaurants and stores.  There's a Starbucks and a Dominos pizza near this corner if you're looking for something a bit more familiar.  I wasn't afraid to walk around and the area seemed very safe to me.  Use your head and you should be fine.  Again - most people do NOT speak ANY English, so be prepared.
I'm sure I'll be staying here again next time I come for business.  All in all, it's a decent option.  By the way, if you eat in the hotel, you order on the lobby level and then move to the third floor to eat.  It's typical Chinese fare - anything and everything in small portions to share.  You can order from pictures all over the wall, or by selecting from the fresh seafood.

Better than I expected

This hotel looks initially nice, and claims to be "international", but is found lacking. Some rooms are filthy, there is smell of smoke all over the hotel, the WIFI does not work (although the wired ethernet is fine), and the TV has only local channels, not even CCTV News, which even small hotels had before. Nobody speaks English but staff was patient with my imperfect Chinese. 

Breakfast has some international elements - toast, sausage, jam and (powder) coffee, as well as the usual fare of a good Chinese buffet. Dinner was hot pot, which was difficult for the many new to China international guests in our party, who would not know what all the sauces are and if they want ingredients, it was hopeless. 

This hotel was used instead of a more suitable business hotel by our hosts as the 4 and 5 star hotels are now forbidden due to the governments anti-corruption campaign. More is needed.

On a positive, my room was large, water was hot and bathroom clean, room temperature was adjustable, noise was low except one night with loud neighbors, and wired ethernet was fine.

There is a huge supermarket around the corner. Cross street is Hongmei. It is ~ 1 km from the East and the North entrances of Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Minhang campus, but it took 50 min walk to the next subway station, Jianchuanlu. If you have business at Jiao Da, it is acceptable. 

The (discounted) price of $50 was also making this a good deal.

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