Clearblue,
I brought the ticket from vayama.com As I understand, If you dont buy the tickets from the official china eastern US website, the overnight hotel is not given. If that true ? We will be staying in the bund area, but while coming back we were thinking about staying at the PVG ramada inn. It would be nice to avail the free hotel on the return trip. Any advice if we can get the hotel ?

I'm not sure what channels qualify for the free hotel, but I can tell you that there are some pretty horid hotels on their list.

With help of a chinese colleague I was successful in doing seat selection online. !!!!!

China Eastern Chicago to Shanghai
 

Any experiences ? good or bad ? If you had connecting MU flights was the baggage checked through OR you had to collect the baggage at PVG ?

What kind of hotels are they giving you?

ORD-PVG
 

anyone with recent experience ?

Just wanted to follow up on my trip.

ORD->PVG->CSX All on one China Eastern ticket.

At ORD I was only issued ORD->PVG boarding pass. Once at PVG, I had to pick up my checked in luggage at the carousel and instead of walking out, you can go to transit, recheck the baggage there, and they will issue you a new boarding pass.

On the way back the luggage was checked all the way to ORD, did not have to pick up at PVG, plane from CSX->PVG was delayed by 40 min (layover at PVG is only 1hr40min, so kinda a big deal) but once we landed, as soon as we left the plane, there was a guy waiting asking passengers flying to Chicago or New York to follow him. He got the group through some back doors, did passport check again and went straight to the gate. Plane was almost done boarding by the time we got there.

From what i heard from another passenger, the PVG->ORD plane will wait for the incoming passengers if they're flying in from a different city to catch the connection. I'm not sure how long they wait, but they wait.

Jan3Sobeiski, thanks for your information.

Clearblue, Did you make your ORD-PVG-NRT trip ? if yes can you share your experience ?

Guys, I know this thread is about ORD-PVG. Can any one comment on the hard product on business? Better yet, PVG-JFK-PVG? I first flew on MU last week (SIN-PVG) it was not bad despite the seat not being fully flat. As it was a red-eye, I didn't bother with the food. Any comments before I book? If I do, it would be SIN-PVG-JFK-PVG-SIN. The alternative would be DL or AF, but incurred significant savings if I go with MU. Thanks!

The hard product in business on the 77W is quite good...definitely better than DL and AF, in my opinion. The soft product gets mixed reviews. Personally I prefer both DL and AF, but half of the people I work with (especially Chinese) disagree.

Thank you Moondog. Forgot to mention that the entertainment system left a lot to be desired - a bit daunting for a 24+ hour trip. But why not? I will give it a try. Thanks again.