I arrived at Shanghai PVG yesterday, on a Lufthansa flight from Germany. From landing to getting on the bus to the hotel was about 3 hours, not so bad, The hotel is originally enough the 'Shanghai Hotel' (Jin Jiang chain), and it has seen much better days. The room itself is fine, clean enough. Lots of food with each meal, lots of rice, but not really great. Costs at 400 room/day + 100 meals/day, so 5000 RMB total up front for 10 days. Visa/other CC but not amex, or cash There is no choice for hotels, they herd you into a waiting area then onto the bus, and off we go.

Its like a video game: scan these codes, pass these tests, get through various bosses, 'fast' travel to somewhere else, then repeat.

Install WeChat on your phone before you arrive, and Alipay if you can. The health code is accessed via Alipay. I could not get this to work with my German SIM card, but no problems with a China SIM bought from amazon before leaving.
They setup a group WeChat for everyone, and you can order food as a 'group buy', once per day.

The room has high ceilings - should've brought my golf clubs or a skipping rope.