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Thanks moondog.
Are there any hotels that are truly "close" to PVG? Given the nature of the assignment, I wonder if I'll be forced to stay on/near airport property.
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They could be lying (i.e. defining "hotel" in their own terms), but the Holiday Inn purports to be the closest hotel to PVG.
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Also, what's the incremental difference in "commute time" between St. Regis/PVG and Hyatt/PVG?
Hyatt is aprox 5 minutes further away (35 v. 40 min).
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I really can't find anything detailed about the maglev train service -- is this now operational?
TMK, Maglev won't be up and running until the end of this year.
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Is the Longyang Road station in an interesting area and/or near any of the aforementioned hotels?
No. It's terribly uninteresting. Frankly, I'm perplexed as to why they chose it for the terminal of their fancy train (I guess they're planning on running it all the way to Hongqiao eventually and felt that the southern route was less congested). If interested in the Maglev and the Shanghai master plan, you might want to try to stop by the urban planning museum when you're in town. I've heard it's very interesting.