Shanghai Park Hotel

There's a particular kind of property that travellers keep coming back to in Shanghai: Shanghai Park Hotel, a four-star in Downtown Shanghai, fits that bill. Downtown Shanghai is doing some of the heavy lifting here: it's within an easy walk of the city centre, and that proximity does change the trip. Rooms feel…

There's a particular kind of property that travellers keep coming back to in Shanghai: Shanghai Park Hotel, a four-star in Downtown Shanghai, fits that bill. Downtown Shanghai is doing some of the heavy lifting here: it's within an easy walk of the city centre, and that proximity does change the trip. Rooms feel well-appointed; the touches travellers mention most are reliable wi-fi and an in-house restaurant, and the comfort feedback has been consistently flattering. It feels lived-in rather than staged, which tends to be the difference between a stay you remember and one you don't. Pull the review pages apart and you find well over 1,000 reviews, with a solid consensus that's hard to engineer. Reputation has held up across enough stays to mean something. Recent rates have been hovering around €68 a night, which lands as a fair-value option for the city. Whether Shanghai Park Hotel is the right fit depends on the trip, but it earns a place on the comparison shortlist for Shanghai more often than not.