Jitai Hotel - Renmin Square — Hotel in Shanghai

I had a look of many foreigners reviews on this hotel, I think they need to know some tricks about it. Our family has been stayed in this hotel for the past 3 years every time we visited Shanghai. ||It is a very central located hotel in Shanghai, with a lot of very nice shops around it, if you want to find some unique Chinese clothing, they have a street selling that. It is only two blocks away from Huaihai road, the second busiest shopping street in Shanghai, and four blocks away from Nanjing road, the biggest shopping street, many expensive boutique shops around it, because it is located in a very expensive hotels area. ||When booking, you need to ask for rooms with a window, they do have some without windows, but that is mainly for single rooms. You also need to ask for rooms with laminated or wooden floors, so the rooms won't be seemed untidy. They clean the rooms and bathrooms quite nicely. And most of the rooms we stayed were quite spacious. You do not need to eat hotel Chinese breakfast in there, but only walk for 3 minutes, you can find the most delicious breakfast most locals eat at a very nice price, on either direction, and that includes Xiao rong bao, about 60p for 10!||I have seen some foreigners stayed there, so I think although language could be a problem, but with a google translator, you can manage. ||That area, is equivalent to London's Chelsea, and this hotel offers £35 for a family stay per day, so I think most of the negative comments have not done its justice. I won't recommend it if you need to negotiate big business, but for a leisure or family stay, it is OK. And if you need strong wifi signal, ask the receptionist. ||I highly...

booked online and paid CNY 300 for a night's stay, no breakfast included. ||||Staff doesn't speak any English despite Shanghai being an international city.||Got a room on the 3rd (top) floor. The floor passage was disgustingly dirty and stinky and smelled of cigarettes, as if it the carpet has never been vacuumed. I had a bit of a cough from the previous day, which developed into a full blown infection by the morning, and I suspect it was because of the dust and smoke in the hotel. It ruined my next 4 days of holiday.||||The airconditioning in the room did not cool at all, so we had to spend the night with the windows fully open and noise from traffic below did not help matters. Wifi did not work at all either in the room or in the "lobby", which got my roommate to go out of the hotel at 1130pm to find a business with a working wifi connection. ||||Hot water shower worked just fine, which helped us to get the hell out of this godforsaken place as early as we could, in the morning. Could not find taxi outside the hotel and explaining that to the the staff was hopeless, so had to walk 10 mins to get the main road and find a taxi by the park.||||Would not recommend this...

My boyfriend and I have travelled extensively in Australia, New Zealand,Asia and South America and this is in the top 3 of the worst places we have ever stayed. The only thing it has going for it is that it is semi affordable and it is in an alright location 10/15 min walk to the metro. Firstly, we arrived at about 10pm to be told that our room was no longer available as checkin was only between 12pm and 8pm, they let our room go after 8pm despite the fact that I had emailed the hotel a few days previous to let them know we would be arriving late. The staff speak no English so all interaction is done through a translator phone. In the end we settled for staying in a more expensive room for one night and then moving to our original room the following morning. I have never slept in a more uncomfortable bed in my life- hard as a rock and the room stank of smoke. Half of the hotel is derelict giving it a post apocalyptic feel which is quite eerie. The part of the hotel that is occupied feels very seedy, at about 10pm every night cards for strippers/call girls were slipped under the door- very classless. My advice is spend a little extra and stay...