Hongkou Kingtown Hotel — Hotel in Shanghai

We are a company of six people, taking a trip recently to Shanghai, Suzhou and Wusi. Kingtown hotel is the hotel we stayed on the first and last day of our tour because it is closed to Hungqiao international airport. The hotel is within walking distance to mtr station. About 10 minutes if you know the short cut.||The staff at the reception were very warm to receive us when we checked in. At the dinning room on the M floor where we had buffet breakfast, there was a young lady who helped to carry the food we picked up to the table. I have never had such service in hotels elsewhere.||The hotel room is not large but you have everything you need. One thing I like about this hotel is the room lights are well designed and quite bright. I have been in some hotel which the room lights are so dim that one can scaecely see things. There are many small supermarkets just round the corner where you can get all kinds of food. If you know how to find, there are shanghai style breakfast in an alley within 15 minutes walk from the hotel where you can have a feast at only $10-15 rmb per head. ||In the past hotel rooms in China were well designed but poorly maintained. This is not the case anymore. The room facilities were well maintained. The rooms we stayed were standard two bed rooms, equivalent to four star standard but is only between 300-500 rmb(chinese yuan). Where else you can get...

Stayed here for 2 nights. I arrived at Shanghai from a high speed train from Beijing. My guide was waiting for me at the Shanghai train station for my transfer to the hotel. It was already midnight when I checked in at the property. Front office staff is not friendly. There is no lobby lounge in this hotel. The are 2 lounge chairs & a small round table beside the front office counter. Elevator has noisy doors & dirty floor. Hotel room is clean with comfortable beds. Wifi is weak. TV stations are all in Chinese. The window glass panels of the room are very dusty )see photos) The toilet & bathroom looks newly renovated. Complete set of toiletries are provided and replenished daily. Seven Plus body wash & shampoo in bottled dispensers are inside the bathroom aside from the fresh & new bathroom towels. Breakfast is at the M floor, Nobody assisted me to my table because was no reception staff when I entered the dining hall. While I was having my breakfast, a lady reception staff )see photo) suddenly asked for my room number. This lady staff is strict. The food is just average with choices of Chinese & some...

We stayed here for a few nights as part of an organized group trip. Maybe coming from other parts of China, the hotel felt like a return to Western style of living. We enjoyed the clean and well organized room. The location is great, lots of shops, banks and little snack places just around the corner. For a European visitor, maybe the biggest advantage is that a Metro station is about 10 minutes away on foot. This made us feel very independent, once we understood the tariff system. ||On the downside, one may mention that there is no real lobby or bar where you can sit in the evening (which is very normal in China). Also the claim that the hotel is in walking distance from the Bund is a bit ambitious. We walked to the Bund, which was a very interesting tour, but it took us about 20 minutes...