Thanks for the suggestions.

Have just got back from Shanghai and all I can say is that is is organised chaos. Of course, I didn't realise that I was arriving the first day of a seven day public holiday for Golden Week.

Getting through immigration was a breeze, in fact easier than getting in to the US and took the Maglev into the city to connect with line 2, intending to get off at Nanjing Road East, the nearest metro station to the hotel, only to find it was closed and we sailed straight through. Found out later that due to numbers of people trying to get to the Bund they closed the station at four in the afternoon every day. Ended up in People's Square totally lost, but thankfully a door man at the Radisson Blue helped get a taxi for me.

Spent the first day having a wander around, and headed over to the Financial World Tower, which had surprisingly short lines. Sadly, by the time I got to the top, the cloud had closed in. Not my day. For the evening, I did an Untour food tour, booked through Viator. Well recommended, a guide from Mexico City who had lived in Shanghai for seven years and took us to three back street restaurants from distinct areas of China, including the muslim area in the far north. Food was delicious and a group of eight from various parts of the world, got on well for the night.

Second day, and another Viator trip, which was supposed to be a half day trip leaving at 12 from the hotel to ZhuJiaJiau water village, a silk factory, buffet dinner and ending with a river trip down the Huangpo river after dark. I had a call from the tour guide the night before to say that I would be picked up at 10.30 instead of 12 o'clock, the reason it turned out was that the traffic out of Shanghai was horrendous and it took an extra hour to get to ZhuJiaJiau, only to find that the "quiet traditional chinese village" was absolutely packed, as it's a favourite destination for the chinese during holidays. The river trip down the Bund after dark was definitely worth doing though. Just parked myself on the rail with camera and photographed the skyline on both sides of the river.

Have to say that the hotel was excellent, the room immaculately clean and compared with the place I stayed in New York for the same price, like a palace. The only downside was the location in relation to the metro, particularly when Nanjing Road Closed in the evening, when taxi was required to get most places.

Would I go again? Maybe not in a hurry and certainly not in a holiday period. As I said, the place was organised chaos, fun for a short time, but being constantly shouted at by police and fighting crowds got a bit tiring.