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 China travel tales
Our customers who stayed at Broadway Mansion Hotel Shanghai share their experiences.
Read about first hand stories on travel tips and guides, events, entertainment,shopping, food, business and transportation.
Also, you might want to read our
Beijing city guide,
Guangzhou city guide,
Kunming city guide,
Shanghai city guide,
and Xian city guide.
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| S Codrington |
05 June 2005 |
Stayed at Broadway Mansions Shanghai - Shanghai, China.
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Having been to Shanghai many times over the past 23 years, I have always regarded the Shanghai Acrobats as the best in China. I went to their performance again on this trip but was profoundly disappointed. The show has lost its tradition and charm, and it is now a sound-and-lights extravaganza for Western audiences. The quality of the acrobatics has plummeted amidst all the glitz. Furthermore, having paid extra for "A" class seats, I was disappointed to find myself in the third back row of the theatre. Fortunately, I have many happy memories of the Shanghai acrobats in their heyday.
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| S Codrington |
19 May 2005 |
Stayed at Broadway Mansions Shanghai - Shanghai, China.
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The Broadway Mansions Hotel is still known in Chinese by the name Shanghai mansions (Shanghai Da Sha) - useful knowledge if you are taking a taxi!
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| B Hsieh |
05 January 2005 |
Stayed at Broadway Mansions Shanghai - Shanghai, China.
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It only costs $15 rmb taxi to get to Yu Yuen which we enjoyed very much. The walk from the Hotel to the Bund was easy and pleasant. Shopping is not close enough but it's ok with inexpensive taxi rides.
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| S Lim |
18 December 2004 |
Stayed at Broadway Mansions Shanghai - Shanghai, China.
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Transport by taxi is easily available. A trip from Hotel to NanJing East Pedestrian street is at RMB 10 the flag down rate. A trip to Shanghai Zoo cost RMB45. See panda bear, vultures, tiger, lion, penguin and many other animals and birds that children will enjoy. Visit Shanghai Scientific and Technology Museum for family with children. They will love it for a day of fun with the interactive display.
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| G Martin |
08 December 2004 |
Stayed at Broadway Mansions Shanghai - Shanghai, China.
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We especialy recommend the taxi service and the MAGLEV train to and from the airport - it puts transport to and from airports in may major cities to shame. We were transit passengers from Melbourne to Vancouver and were very plesed to have the opportunity to stay in Shanghai for personal as well as travel reasons. My late father in law was born in Shanghai in the 1930's, to a Scottish couple who had emigrated from Stirling to work on Shanghai's telephone system, which was set up in the 1930s. They lived in what was then Avenue Haig (now Hushuan Road) in the British concession, and left for Tasmania shortly before the Japanese invaded in 1941.
My wife's mission was to look for the house in which her father spent the first ten years of his life, and while it appears that the house was demolished and replaced with a newer house in the 1960's, helpful locals and Shanghai Hospital Library staff, gave us a tour of their premises, located in a house with a very Scottish baronial flavour, featuring stained glass windows, a very imposing staircase, mounted heads of deer, and the original, very British 1930s bathroom fittings. All in all a very intriguing look at how expatriates from the UK tried their hardest to bring all the comforts and the familiar with them.
My wife was absolutely delighted to finally walk the streets that her father frequented as a small child, in a world that can never return.
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| L Lim |
18 July 2004 |
Stayed at Broadway Mansions Shanghai - Shanghai, China.
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You'd probably be frustrated if you try to catch a cab during dinner time - between 5:30pm and 7:00pm. Also, don't be surprised if sometimes, cabs don't stop by the road when you flag them - look around, there's probably one of the many taxi stands nearby. Shanghai's apparently quite strict about taxis stopping at non-designated stop-zone as one cabby helpfully explained.
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| S Vijayan |
17 July 2004 |
Stayed at Broadway Mansions Shanghai - Shanghai, China.
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It is better to get the locations where you need to visit to be written in Chinese to show it to Taxi drivers or for that matter anyone you would ask for directions. Also get China mobile sim card it is handy and cheap while travelling on business.
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| C Bailey |
24 June 2004 |
Stayed at Broadway Mansions Shanghai - Shanghai, China.
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Shanghai is my usual departure city when returning to the US. It is a wonderful city to reaffirm the realization of the enormous change that's taking place in China. It is also fun for shoppers and museum-goers alike. Don't miss the Shanghai Museum on Renmin Da Dao or the museum in the Pearl Tower. You can use the tourist tunnel to cross under the river for a trip to the Pearl Tower and the Aquarium (adjacent). For other jaunts, taxis are reliable and reasonable. I enjoyed a meal at the French restaurant in the Sofitel Hotel overloking Nanjing shopping walkway.
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| M Diepold |
24 May 2004 |
Stayed at Broadway Mansions Shanghai - Shanghai, China.
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The trafic is chaotic and loud and the taxi drivers donīt speak english. Why should they? With your adress written in Chinese (The reception helps you) there will be no problems. Taxi is very cheap. Donīt miss: Shanghai Museum, The Jade Buddha Temple, a performance with the Shanghai acrobats, a coffee at Hotel Hyatt (take the ferry across The Huangpo River to Pudong) and a dinner at Peace Hotel in the Chinese Restaurant on the 8th floor-very good and not expensive. And if you have time - take the train to Suzhou and visit the fantastic gardens and buy silk and green tea!
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| N Hashim |
07 April 2004 |
Stayed at Broadway Mansions Shanghai - Shanghai, China.
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Shanghai is simply beautiful. Visit the bund for leisurely walk with family, or Nanjing road pedestrian mall to shop.
The people are very nice and helpful as long as you don't put them behind steering wheels. No one stops for pedestrian even carrying a baby at zebra crossing, in the presence of police officers.
Other than that I think Shanghai is simply marvelous.
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