“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 f… Mehr

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.

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“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… Mehr

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.

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“Hotel 1 min from the Bund”

We are a party of 6 older travellers and recently 'found' the Ambassador Hotel and stayed overnight during a brief time in Shanghai. It is within 1 min of the Bund and was built in the early 1900's as the headquarters of the Citibank. It is clean with modern en suite facilities - rather creaky … Mehr

We are a party of 6 older travellers and recently 'found' the Ambassador Hotel and stayed overnight during a brief time in Shanghai. It is within 1 min of the Bund and was built in the early 1900's as the headquarters of the Citibank. It is clean with modern en suite facilities - rather creaky floors as they are wood. The staff are helpful and friendly and there is free internet. The cost is very reasonable - £40 for a double room with a view and 2 breakfasts - which is quite amazing given its excellent position.

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