Chinas Best Value Inn Bund

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• spicegrrl

  21 marzo 2008
  Very nice

  Stayed here for 2 nights and found it very pleasant. The room was lovely, the bed and linens excellent and the location convenient. Staff friendly, well-trained and helpful, with better English than other hotels we visited in China. Good breakfast buffet although the coffee was too strong (it is hard to get a good cup of coffee in China). Fabulous Thai spa on the 4th floor gives good massages at reasonable prices; staff there are so gracious as to be even a bit obsequious. Also on the 4th floor is what appears to be a lovely upscale traditional Japanese restaurant; we didn't have time to eat there but it looked good. Flat screen TV in the room was great and we really liked the selection of channels, although we did notice the Chinese government censorship while watching CNN Asia. Every time Tibet was mentioned, the screen went black and silent for a few minutes, then came back on when the subject changed. But you can't blame the hotel for that (welcome to China). Only one problem with our room (#2013): when you take a shower, the water creeps along the granite shelf circling the tub and ends up pooling on the bathroom floor. But we checked with other members of our tour group and nobody else had that problem. Reading similar complaints in other reviews of other Chinese hotels, my theory is that the Chinese bathroom installation industry is just not very competent at what they do. Bathrooms are just inconsistent wherever you go. Anyway, I would definitely be willing to stay at the Ambassador again if I ever return to Shanghai.

  

• kiko1203

  22 abril 2008
  Great Budget Rooms on an excellent location in Shanghai

  When i searched "ambassador hotel shanghai" on trip advisor, two hotels came out. THIS Ambassador hotel is located at jiujiang road. Jiujiang rood is parallel to nanjing east road (where the nanjing pedestrian street is ) from people's park all the way to the bund so staying at this hotel means a few minutes to both the nanjing road pedestrian street and the bund. Nanjing East Metro Stop on Line 2 is right at the end of nanjing road pedestrian street from people's park. From here, it is around 5 minutes walk to the hotel, and add another minute to the bund. So, we can say that this is the ambassador hotel at the Bund. The OTHER ambassador hotel that came out from the search is located somewhere in the jing'an district. Checkin at this hotel was absolutely hassle free. Frontdesk staff are friendly and they can understand and speak English. For a 3 star budget hotel, hotel amenities are as expected - nothing to expect. :) And there are no bellboys so just help yourself to your rooms. We stayed twice on this hotel. We booked the windowless room at RMB 238 once and then a view room at RMB 388 upon our return. The view room was absolutely fantastic. A comfortable King size bed, clean sheets, a TV set (no use for those who doesn't understand chinese as all channels except CCTV International are in chinese), bathroom toiletries and a really great view. There is a veranda outside the rooms where you can see a portion of Pudong including the oriental pearl tower. I posted a picture of the view from our room. Although the room doesn't have a cabinet for clothes but there is a clothes rack provided which should be okay. And by the way - to get to the view rooms, you'll take the elevator to the fifth floor. From the fifth, it'll be stairs to the 6th where the view rooms are. The windowless room has the same design as the view room. Only with a smaller bed (Double) and a smaller room size. However, It is large enough that claustrophobics need not to worry. And one side of the wall is fully covered by curtains so you won't feel you are in a windowless room We skipped Breakfast at the 2nd floor restaurant. It was chinese buffet breakfast and we don't like chinese buffet breakfast. I say don't mind the "no hotel amenities" as the room rates you pay are at a bargain. Cheap room rates does not normally come with great hotel rooms. But this hotel with its cheap rates came up with great comfortable rooms so this is definitely not a bad choice. And one more thing, there is free internet inside your rooms.

  

• kelley-joBerkeley

  16 agosto 2008
  Would not stay here again

  We stay at the ambassador for 5 nights in July. Here are the plusses and minuses: Pluses: Very close to the Bund - (if that is what you are looking for. We found the bund very crowded and not a place you want to hang out unless you are in a bar along the bund) Budget hotel - We paid $60 a night for 3 of us to stay in a two bed room with a "bund view". The view was 1/2 wall of the adjacent building with a partial bund view at best. Close to the subway but that did not really matter as we found taxis faster and cost just a little more then the overly crowded subways Minuses - No one spoke English We say a rat run across the hall near our room There was constructions going on right outside our window from 5 a.m. until midnight. We tried to change rooms but the told us the only room avaliable would cost the same and we would not have a widow in our room. We made reservation through ctrip.com but the hotel said they had no reservation? I would strongly look elsewhere then staying here unless you are on an extremely tight budget.

  

• bestlund

  07 septiembre 2008
  The Worst Hotel Experience Of My Life

  I must first say that for me to write a hotel review it takes either an incredibly good or bad experience, and by the title I think you know how this hotel is. I also use Trip Advisor reviews all the time, and up until now they have been incredibly accurate. Unfortunately the Ambassador Hotel in Shanghai, China is not fit for anyone to stay in. I booked a promotional room through Hotels.com, and it was very inexpensive...around $50 a night. When I got to the hotel I found the room small, dirty, and the windows opened to the main hall. I decided to upgrade to a view room, and that is where the true nightmare began. The problem with booking on Hotels.com is that the penalty for canceling is almost impossible to avoid, so I was stuck in the Ambassador Hotel for two nights. First of all the rooms are tiny, basically a bed with two feet around either side. The carpet looked like it had never been vacuumed, and there was black hair everywhere. There was no dresser or closet so there was no place to hang or store clothes other than the desk and T.V. stand. The T.V. didn't work, the internet didn't work, the hot water didn't work...the only thing that did work were the lights. The bed was hard as a rock, which is not unusual in China. The sheets however were filthy, and there were blood stains. The shower drain backed up, and the toilet backed up the first day I was there. I was skeptical of the staff, so I put up the do not disturb sign. They ignored it, and "cleaned" the room anyways. After the cleaning, I pulled back the sheets and found a short, curly hair. Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse, I was locked out of my room. When I upgraded they told me to take care of it when I checked out, and then they locked me out. They spoke very little English at the front desk, and it took a half an hour to explain the situation and get back in my room. Then at check out, they tried to charge me twice what they promised me originally to upgrade. At that point I was at my breaking point, and would not leave until they honored the original price. They then called six other men to surround me and my luggage, and were basically trying to strong arm me into paying. I held my ground, and they finally called enough people to be able to allow me pay what they originally promised. I could not imagine a worse experience or hotel. Please do yourself a favor, and don't get lured in by the cheap price...in this case you get what you pay for. I almost forgot...there was a mosquito hatch during the second night and I woke up covered in bites. I originally thought it was bed bugs, until I looked at the walls and saw them covered with mosquitoes. I smashed several of them, and you would know my room as the walls are now covered with little blood spatters from the mosquitoes. I'm sure it will not be cleaned.

  

• LNGHK

  17 septiembre 2008
  Hell on the Bund

  Imagine a hotel where the air con is fixed at a sweltering 30 degrees and you can't change it. You ask reception three times to fix it so that you can stay in your room without sweating. Eventually they get around to it and take it down to 27! Later in the stay I came down with food poisoning and was badly ill and bed ridden. Reception refused to help in finding a doctor and rudely rebuffed a request to get some easily digestible food cooked by the restaurant with 'I'm not a doctor!'. If I wasn't on the doorstep of death I would have sent them to one. Last but not least the construction taking place on the lot next door which went on every day including at 7am Sunday morning was continuously noisy and shook the building as if it was on the San Andreas fault. There are other cheap options around this area. Avoid this hotel unless you a masochist.