I stayed at the East China Hotel for three nights with colleagues and students as part of a school excursion. The purpose of the trip was to have a brief cultural experience of Shanghai before heading off into inner China. The hotel is reasonably well kept and clean, minus a few dodgy plastering jobs. I stayed in a Business Room... more

This hotel is very close to the main Shanghai Railway Station. It is a great budget hotel with good amenities. I did have a small problem obtaining my railway ticket that was delivered to the hotel by China Tripadvisor. It took three days of being persistent to be given my ticket. I travelled from HK to Shanghai on the overnight... more

I usually stay at the Zhong Ya over the road from the East China; however, given that the Zhong Ya has become rather noisy throughout the night on account of the construction of a supermarket nearby, I decided to try the East China for a change. It's near Shanghai Railway Station. Its standard rooms are slightly more expensive than those... more

This hotel is very NOISY. There are 16 lanes of traffic outside and the traffic is thick 24 hours a day. Just around the corner is a huge railway station where 2 million commuters travel each day. Although an old hotel, it has been partly refurbished but the lifts are slow & small, bedrooms are small and the furnishings look... more