上海汇亨新亚大酒店

I was put up in this serviced apartment for about a month. I would not recommend it to other travellers -- you can get a similar price at a much nicer hotel. The pros: - Good location on Nanjing St, close to Western shopping and a number of businesses - Despite being a smoking hotel, my room and the common areas do not smell of smoke - Strong water pressure in the shower - Washer in-room; there's also a dryer but I'm not convinced the heating element works (after 3 hours my clothes were still cold and damp) - Wired internet included with room (though it maxed out for me at ~65 kbps, and there's no wireless) The cons: - Lots of broken equipment. The TV in my room doesn't work and I was told I couldn't change rooms or have it fixed. The curtains close, but the blinds don't. A coworker staying in another room at the hotel had to *pay* to have the battery in her door lock died (otherwise, the hotel was fine to just not let her be able to access her room) - No soundproofing. Even on floor 23, you can hear honking and street noise very clearly, not to mention conversations in the rooms adjacent to you - No housekeeping. You can leave the "make up my room please" hanger on the door for days and be ignored. After a few days with dirty towels and an overflowing trash can I asked the front desk if I could please have my room made up: "Sorry, housekeeping is very busy, no." - Very limited amenities. Want an iron? That's a few hundred RMB. Want pots to go with your kitchenette? Out of luck. Things like shampoo, fitness club, etc -- forget it, though those are perhaps only expected at a "real" hotel as opposed to a serviced apartment - Calling reception from the room is usually ignored; if you have a question or problem you have to go down to the front desk - Lots of little things are "off" in a way that suggests that staff don't care. e.g., the elevator has a screen that shows the time and date, but the date is incorrect. - Not well set-up for English speakers. The staff have limited English skills, the hotel does not distribute cards with the address that you can show to taxi drivers, etc. The English instructions on how to set up the wired internet are Google-translate versions of the literal Chinese Windows menu prompts -- and so don't correspond to the English menu prompts and may be incomprehensible to non-techies.