Originally Posted by
TRAVELSIG
Many hotels in Shanghai have club lounges- my personal preference in terms of lounge quality in Shanghai tends to be towards the Shangri-La at Horizon Club level as I find it to be very private and have excellent service. You can easily host a short meeting or two here- and if you book the (complimentary for 2 hours) meeting room this should work out very well.
The Hyatt is an OK hotel however feels like a huge convention property. I would keep this in mind as certainly if you are looking for a luxury property I don't think this will work out very well.
The original RC Portman has an excellent location and a good club- rooms are quite cramped so if you stay here book a jr. suite or above. It is not a new hotel and was one of the very first luxury hotels in PRC- so keep this in mind.
If you want to be "Bund and West" I would probably choose or the original RC (club+jr. suite or larger) or alternatively the PEN.
Pudong (aka the old graveyard) is NOT an option...EVER.
When you mentioned the Shangri-La in the first paragraph, you did not mean the Shangri-La Jian An, correct?
Originally Posted by
moondog
I think the Portman's location is the BEST, even better than the Puli despite being further from the subway station. You're right that the rooms are a bit on the small side, but the (indoor/outdoor) pool is still great, and I can often get it for less than Y1,000 per night.
CNY 1,000 is not for Club Level, correct?
Contacting The Portman (they have a weird process for getting back to people as it has to be routed through a chain of command
) yielded a CNY 862.50 OR a CNY 977.50 charge
to upgrade a room to Club Level. Does that seem remotely correct? Seems REALLY high...and this is China we're talking about!
What is a better hotel overall, The Portman or The PuLi?